2023-10-27 08:44:00
The Ghost Train has lost its founder. Alain Margot died at the age of 63. Born in Sainte-Croix in 1959, the filmmaker was a prominent figure in the cultural and alternative world of La Chaux-de-Fonds. Photographer, co-founder of the production company Mellina films, he was also a director of fiction films, music videos and documentaries. In particular, in 2014 he signed “I am Femen”, dedicated to the Ukrainian feminist activist Oksana Chatchko. A film hailed by the Grand Jury Prize at Visions du Réel in Nyon. The young woman subsequently killed herself, and the filmmaker then confided to us his sadness.
A haunted house
But in the minds of Chaux-de-Fonniers, Alain Margot was mainly associated with the Ghost Train, this sort of dark and baroque haunted house, located in a decrepit building, at 31 rue de l’Hôtel-de-Ville, chock full of frames, unusual objects and stuffed animals. A place that was only open on Friday September 13th and September 11th, as well as by appointment. The Ghost Train was born in a moment of idleness, at the beginning of the century, between two projects. It received its name when Alain Margot participated in the creation of a nightmarish ghost train with the Graubünden surrealist artist HR Giger.
Excerpt from an interview carried out in 2016 by our colleagues at GRRIF. /jhi
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