Voice Over (Narativ)

Voice Over

I
Written in the wind

I must say
Aloud
Looking for words
Aloud
Looking for the words
Looking for the door
Aloud
If I can't stay there
In this
Here
Always in motion
On the road
My heart, body and mind deliberately wander
Looking for a door to open
Yet I don't write.
I hear myself speak
Then I write
Probably a film
I speak
Aloud
To myself
 

II
Impossible guide

A voice is transporting us
Places
Times
Memories
Known
Unknown
Often out of sync
with images
What we see, the meaning
Answers
Always answers
To impossible questions
No voice will answer them
It asks more questions
Tracing along paths
Words can carry us so far
Out of this world
Out of the image
Out of the senses
Inside ourselves
Everything is confusion
Everyone finds their answer
A place
A time
A love
 

III
Will remain

Compose a music
Made of words
Of intonations, tones, rhythms
Of softness
Especially soft
Drawing a map
Maps
Returning home


 

Narativ

I
Ekri sou van an

mwen oblije di li
Byen fò
Map chache mo yo
Byen fò
Gade mo yo
Chèche yon pòt
Byen fò
Paske mwen pa ka rete isit la
Konsa
Dwa isit la
Mwen toujou an mouvman
Toujou sou wout la
Kote kè m, kò m ak lespri m ap pwonmennen
Map chache yon pòt poum ouvri, poum ekri.
E poutan, mwen pa ekri.
mwen di
Lè sa a, mwen ekri
Pa gen pwoblèm fim nan
Mwen ap pale, byen fò, pou kont mwen
 

II
Yon gid enposib

Yon vwa transpòte nou nan
Lokal
Tan
Memwa
Li te ye
Enkoni
Souvan soti nan etap ak imaj yo
Sa nou wè, sans nou chache
Kèk repons
toujou reponn
Pou kesyon enposib
Vwa a pap reponn li
Li poze plis kesyon
Trase lòt chemen
Pawòl nou tande yo ka mennen nou twò lwen
soti nan mond sa a
Soti nan foto a
soti nan chemen an
anndan nou
kote tout se konfizyon
Kote tout moun jwenn repons yo
plas li
Tan li
Lanmou li
 

III
Ki sa ki pral rete

Konpoze mizik
fèt ak mo
Entonasyon, ton, ritm
Ak pi wo a dous
trase yon kat
kat jeyografik
Ale lakay
 

Miryam Charles, born in 1984 in Montreal, Canada, works as a writer, director, producer and cinematographer. Her feature debut CETTE MAISON (This House) was invited to the Berlinale Forum in 2022.

Translated from the Haitian Creole by Sacha Clark