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An explosion of poetry and music with the intense energy of today’s student youth.
During lockdown Laure Catherin discovered Barbara Stiegler's De la démocratie en Pandémie and Howl, Allen Ginsberg’s epic poem capturing the desires and disarray of American youth. This work from 1955 struck her so powerfully that she felt compelled to respond to it from the present day. At the time, France’s universities were closed – the students shut away, the campuses silent. But as soon as classes resumed, along with Delphine Battour and Raphaël Mars, Catherin went to meet the students of Rennes’ university. Gathering their testimonies, listening to their debates, Catherin collected their words as a form of proof that this generation had not disappeared from a future that cannot exist without them. Combining poetry, music, rap and spoken word, Howl 2122 captures what Catherin saw, heard and felt. The result is a tumultuous road movie of phrases, images and sensations.
Laure Catherin trained from 2012 to 2015 at the TNB Drama School. As an actor, she was directed by former Rennes 2 student Delphine Battour in Fracassé·es, an adaptation of a text by Kae Tempest with sound design by Raphaël Mars, presented at Festival Mythos 2022 in Rennes.