Sneak Peek*: SHADOW GAME part 1
* previously: WatchApp
SKaGeN surprises with Sneak
Peek: Shadow Game: the very first real-time documentary where you can
follow live for 2 x 3 weeks the messenger conversation between a documentary
maker and a very young SK (Sanjid Kahn) who is looking for his way from
Afghanistan to Europe.
For
this production, the theatre creators of SKaGeN got to work with the thousands
of chat messages, videos and audio files that Dutch documentarians Eefje
Blankevoort, Els Van Driel & SK sent to each other between 2019 and 2022.
SKaGeN selected and edited 2 crucial moments of 3 weeks each. It gives the
audience a unique insight into the daily life of a 16-year-old boy, who tries
to survive alone on the Balkan route.
In
the first part, we meet SK as he plans his GAME to cross the border into
Croatia. He has been touring Bosnia for over a year at this point and this
MATCH should be his 30th attempt. We follow SK through the forests, along the
railway lines and along the rivers that should lead him to Italy via Sarajevo.
It will be a journey full of trials and disappointments, but also one of
heartwarming intimacy and growing commitment: the young SK meticulously
documents what he sees and experiences. One day he will show the world what is
really happening at Europe's borders.
SKaGeN now offers him this scene
in a triptych: Sneak Peek: Shadow Game Bosnia, Sneak Peek: Shadow Game Romania
and a live performance: The Gambling Game.
The live performance The Gambling
Game should be the last piece of this intense journey through Europe. On the
real stage, facts and fiction meet, current events reflect European history and
the documentary material mixes with the literature of Franz Kafka and Berthold
Brecht. Additionally, SK and the cast of SKaGeN are performing together for the
first time.
In
The Gambling Game, newly arrived Sanjid tries his luck and buys a scratch
ticket from the National Lottery. He wins an income for life. Luck turns to
panic when the young asylum seeker has to fill in the forms and declare his
age. According to the Afghan calendar, he is a minor, so he should not have
bought the ticket. The Belgian government doubts his story and declares him of
age. What to do now with his precarious status, because freedom has a price...
What is Sneak Peek?
SKaGeN & De Studio presented a unique project in 2020: the
WatchApps Emmi & Leo, Thomize & Imke were able to delight around 20,000
viewers. SKaGeN had designed its own unique app for this. Via the revamped
Sneak Peek app, you can secretly peek inside a Messenger group like we all have
one...
CREDITS
Scenario: | Korneel Hamers, Elisa Demarré & SKaGeNteam | |
SneakPeek concept: | Mathijs F Scheepers | |
Dramaturgie: | Elisa Demarré | |
Coaching: | Valentijn Dhaenens | |
Text & images: | Sajid Khan, Eefje Blankevoort en Els van Driel | |
Vormgeving: | Lidia Nagibina | |
Production assistent & back end: | Suzanne De Clercq | |
Business leader and coordinator: | Korneel Hamers | |
In collaboriation with: | Prospektor, De Studio, en Milton | |
Coproduction: | SKaGeN, SneakPeek, Prospektor | |
With support from: Thanks to: | De Vlaamse Gemeenschap Simon Van Roosbroeck & De Studio-team |