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Language is a collective work, the most beautiful of all — Pascal Nordmann

Excerpts from Les Guetteurs II – La certitude by Pascal Nordmann

Read by Marie Hasse

Alongside her musical training, Marie Hasse joined the Charles Dullin school in 2007. After graduating, she directed Hanjo, Mishima’s modern Noh play, and worked with several companies as an actress and stage director. In 2015, she took over the direction of the Petit Auguste Théâtre, managing its programming and administration until 2018.

After moving to Geneva, she embraced the world of publishing and assumed the leadership of Metropolis Editions. She pursues both paths simultaneously, convinced of their complementarity and of the vital exchange of inspiration between theatre and publishing.

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…my brother explained that these were the sounds the world makes as it turns…

He spoke of the hum of forty jeeps in Austria, the murmur of three large flies from Argentina, and the crackle of whipped eggs crushed in a bowl. I remember…

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Mémoire de l'Avenir

A non-political, non-religious organisation guided by its ethical charter,

using arts and culture as tools for dialogue and understanding.

FILM N° 2 - Après la gloire

FILM N° 1 - A CENTURY OF GLOR Y

CONTEXT-HICTORIC

PASCAL NORDMANN

CATALOGUE

THE INTENTIONS

“It is not a matter of showing the unspeakable

or producing a documentary work.

One should not expect to find images

of the unnameable.

The intention belongs to the realm of mourning,

of meditation,

even of prayer or of invocation—

everything that, within conscious memory,

accompanies remembrance in order to make it bearable,

or at least to pretend that it could be bearable.”

Pascal Nordmann

Synopsis

This movie is addressed to Switzerland, the author’s homeland, to question and illustrate the difficult position of witness, to name—with sorrow and shame—those who profited, and to honor those who did not look away, sometimes disobeying in order to save lives.

PROGRAM

19H30 - Screening of the film Beside glory by Pascal Nordmann — 14'00

Trilogy of glory

PRESS KIT

If you would like to submit a project (exhibition, evening talks, debates, or performances), please contact us via email at contact@memoire-a-venir.org

NOCTURNE

February 21 2026

Doors open 7:00 PM

Screening | Discussion | Reading

Pascal Nordmann is a writer, visual artist, and theatre practitioner. He has lived between France, Germany, and Switzerland, where he is now based. In Germany, he founded the Chairos Theater, which gave rise to a major street-theatre festival. Alongside his theatrical activities, he has pursued a diverse artistic career—literature, playwriting, poetry, visual and digital arts. For the past three years, he has published a poetic commentary on current events, Fil info (pascal-nordmann.com). He has received the Revelation Prize of the Cerveira Art Biennale (Portugal), the UNESCO International Monologue Competition Prize, and was a laureate at the Lyon Playwrights’ Festival. His work explores borders, embracing a surrealist spirit, poetry, strangeness, and humour. Since 2024, he has published three books: Samuel Jones, a monologue (Presses Inverses); L'Homme dans l'homme, a novel (Metropolis); and Fil info (Les Carnets du Dessert de Lune).

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TRILOGY OF GLORY

EXHIBITION AND FILM

In a celebration of colour, sound, and movement,

through a series of images paying homage to Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, and Paul Klee,

Pascal Nordmann stages the memory of disaster

in order to offer it—defiantly—

to the proponents of eternal return,

of national glories, and of misguided old myths.

The three parts form a trilogy built around the same event of the 20th century:

the German genocide perpetrated against European Jews.

Part 1 — see HERE — A Century of glory

Part 2 — see HERE — After glory

Each part, constructed around a central theme, includes an exhibition of collages,

an animated short film, and a booklet published by Editions de la Fondation Auer.

PRESENTATION

January 23 – February 22, 2026

Mémoire de l’Avenir – Humanities, Arts and Society

will host an exhibition and a short film

by Pascal Nordmann

titled Beside glory

The three parts form a trilogy based on the same event of the 20th century: the German genocide perpetrated against European Jews. Each part, structured around a central theme, includes an exhibition, a short film, and a booklet (Editions de la Fondation Auer).

BESIDE GLORY

— Part 3 —

is addressed to Switzerland, the artist’s home country,

to question and illustrate the difficult position of witness—

to name, with sorrow and shame,

those who profited,

and to honour those who did not look away,

sometimes disobeying in order to save lives.

ARTISTIC DIRECTION & CURATORSHIP

Emeline Cusin, Cultural Project Director and Editor

Margalit Berriet, Founding Director of Mémoire de l’Avenir

Helen Margaret Giovanello, Research - Artist