— Inch'Allah | 2005
Ria Pacquée
HD 4:3
Colour, Non-spoken
18' 40"
INCH'ALLAH is an associative mosaic of fleeting moments, captured in image and sound. In the montage, Ria Pacquée rhythmically zaps between countries such as Belgium, Israel, France, and Tunisia. The film juxtaposes everyday events and human actions, from the carnivalesque life of Northern Europe to the intimate beauty of regions like Yemen and Morocco, without a clear narrative or hierarchical structure.
A voice-over, featuring passages from Edmond Jabès' The Book of Questions (1967), complements the images, forming a mosaic of aphorisms, excerpts, and visual dialogues around a central question: how can one make the invisible visible?
INCH'ALLAH is a logical continuation of Pacquée’s earlier works, where she collects images from the streets and arranges them according to formal similarities. Through auditory and visual correlations—textures, rhythms, contrasts, and forms—she explores the illusion of objective reality. Our perception is always shaped by the perspective we adopt, the places we inhabit, and the lives we lead. Pacquée aims to reveal how the subjective perspective influences meaning, showing how seemingly disconnected details can form a coherent whole. Life, she suggests, is less about knowledge and understanding and more about the connections people make—everything else is a manifestation of the moment.
In INCH'ALLAH Pacquée reflects on how fragments of reality, through sound and image, converge to create meaning. By quoting Jabès, she emphasises that life is not about knowing or understanding, but about the vitality that allows us to reach out to one another, with everything else merely an ephemeral appearance.
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