Death and Birth in My Life invites the audience to listen in on a series of intimate conversations about the most moving and challenging experiences in life. This latest long-term project by Mats Staub asks about existential experiences. It approaches universal themes through individual experiences and in relation to local contexts. In its presentation, it brings people together to talk to each other about their experiences of death and birth, while also presenting conversations from other regions and establishing connections with people from other parts of the world. In Death and Birth in My Life, Staub brings two people together and establishes gentle parameters for engaging each other in conversation. The participants are filmed both speaking and listening so the viewer is be able to look at the faces of both the speakers and the listeners shown on a split screen.

Death and Birth in My Life is an accumulative project. Here we present six conversations, screened at scheduled times during the Festival. After each screening, there is the possibility to share reflections with the participants or other audience, should you wish to. Go to the bottom of this page to find out how.

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