Cityscapes

I Am Night at Noonday

Gaspard Hirschi | 2025 | France | 83’

I Am Night at Noonday (83') & Warsaw_Postsimulacrum (6')
Saturday 11 Oct 2025 | 16:00
LantarenVenster Zaal/Cinema 4Sold out

Shows of I Am Night at Noonday

I Am Night at Noonday (83') & Warsaw_Postsimulacrum (6')
Saturday 11 Oct 2025 | 16:00
LantarenVenster Zaal/Cinema 4Get TicketsSold out

About the installation

A contemporary fable in which Don Quixote, with a colander on his head, and Sancho Panza as a food delivery rider, wreak havoc in the privatized streets of Marseille. In this hybrid fiction-documentary, we follow theatre maker Manolo Bez as the ingenious nobleman, on horseback and armed with a long stick, accompanied by his loyal assistant and cynical voice of reason. Together they travel through the labyrinthine neighbourhoods of the south of France, where their disarming costumes draw in young people, addicts, immigrants and other outcasts. Gaspard Hirschi’s eccentric I Am Night at Noonday offers a playful look at gated communities, the ‘castles’ that Don Quixote seeks to storm in the fight against segregation.

film details

Dutch premiere

Director Gaspard Hirschi

Country France

Year 2025

Runtime 83 Min.

Language French, English

Subtitles English

Type Documentary, Experimental, Other

film credits

Producer Quentin Laurent

With the cooperation of Michaela Cajkova

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As part of: I Am Night at Noonday (83') & Warsaw_Postsimulacrum (6')

Shown in combination with

Warsaw – Postsimulacrum

Recreating the visual language of mid-century newsreels with AI generated images, the film presents Warsaw as a city whose identity is constantly reconstructed as a simulation layered over ruins. History, destruction, myth and ideology blur into a palimpsest of eternal reinvention.