love is the only master I'll serve is a symbolical art film (22') written and directed by Nicholas Lens.[1]
| love is the only master I'll serve | |
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 A promotional poster for the film | |
| Directed by | Nicholas Lens |
| Written by | Nicholas Lens |
| Produced by | Nicholas Lens (executive producer: Brigitte Baudine) |
| Starring | Louise Peterhoff Claron McFadden Clara-lane Lens |
| Cinematography | Renaat Lambeets |
| Edited by | Simone Rau, Stefan Rijcken |
| Music by | Nicholas Lens |
Release date | June 2006 |
Running time | 22 min |
| Language | Swedish / English / Latin |
Festival selections edit
- (World premiere) Brooklyn International Film Festival, New York City - June 2006[2]
- Media and Dance, Tokyo - Japan, 2006
- Napolidanza, Italy, 2006
- The American Dance Festival, United States, 2006
- Media and Dance, Tokyo - Japan, 2020 (Best Selection)[3]
Plot edit
One entity, divided into two women, addresses himself to an imaginary love-god represented by a pipe-smoking child. The body and voice of the divided entity are used to utter a spectrum of opposed sensations - caused by the division - and heightened sensitiveness related to the subject. The divided entity is seeking a unification, which will not happen without the approval and support of the imaginary love-god.[4]
Characters edit
(Reference for this paragraph Festival program BIFF New York City 2006)[5]
- The Whisper Kid, symbolizes a personalized love-god.
- she looks with a certain distance and neutrality at the two creatures who address themselves to her;
- her image is of pureness and young innocence;
- to cut across this well-spread definition she smokes a big curled hanging pipe;
- sometimes she blows and creates air bubbles of soap with the inhaled smoke;
- by these actions the child character reveals a mysterious, elusive background of her own timelessness, of someone who could possibly be aged but appears this time in a gentle, different form.
- Luna, a human female mortal addressing herself indirectly (and sometimes directly) to the imaginary love-god.
- she figures as a sculpture, perplexed by the whisper kid, but finally she looks straight in a static camera while she sings her ode to love, she expresses her devotion to the subject ("love is the only master I'll serve") by her self-chosen verbal communication;
- her body almost does not move, we only see a severe, sometimes frightened, sometimes completely desperate-for-love face expression.
- Serena, a human female mortal, addresses herself indirectly (and sometimes directly) to the imaginary love-god.
- she communicates her devotion to the subject by physical expression;
- she dances, using a whole spectrum of facial and body statements, interrupted with spasmodic blitzes of short falling moves and/or like electric shocks, like face and body are crying of pain and uncontrolled passion originated by the subject (as it appears sometimes when long periods of a constant energetic and inner peaceful mood is suddenly effected from outside, unexpectedly and on first sight unnecessary, like the pain of a needle in a body which is in a gentle, lovely sleeping state, a pain, abrupt and short, but more hurting, much deeper as one isn’t prepared for it).
Credits Production edit
- Written and directed by Nicholas Lens
Cast
- Louise Peterhoff - Serena
- Claron McFadden - Luna
- Clara-Lane Lens - The Whisper Kid
Crew
- Photography and camera - Renaat Lambeets
- Choreography - Louise Peterhoff
- Music and libretto - Nicholas Lens
- Art director - Pierre-François Limbosch
- Editing - Simone Rau
- Additional editing - Stefan Rijcken
- Location - Karnak room, Axel Vervoordt, Wijnegem, Belgium[6]
- Shooting days - April 16–17, 2005
- Executive producer - Brigitte Baudine
- Presented by Tabaran Company
- Produced by Nicholas Lens[7]
Soundtrack edit
Music production:
The Accacha Chronicles 3rd part, Amor Aeternus - Hymns of Love, Nicholas Lens
Soloists
- Claron McFadden, Ian Honeyman, Henk Lauwers, Derek Lee Ragin, Elka Simeonova, Galya Haralambieva, Paul Gérimon, Clara-Lane Lens, Angelite -Bulgarian Voices
Recording and mixing
- Acoustic studios - Sofia, Tabaran Studio - Brussels, ICP - Brussels, Villaïda - Casablanca, Bleu Nuit - Brussels, villalou - Cape Town
- Distributed by Sony BMG Classics (CD 82876 66238 2, 2005)
- Published by Schott Music International, Mainz/New York City
References edit
- ^ http://www.brooklynfilmfestival.org/films/detail.asp?fid=607
- http://www.flandersimage.com/browse-films/detail/love-is-the-only-master-ill-serve
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0818686/?ref_=nm_flmg_com_2 - ^ "LOVE IS THE ONLY MASTER I'LL SERVE by Nicholas Lens @ Brooklyn Film Festival".
- ^ "DANCE AND MEDIA JAPAN International Dance Film Festival".
- ^ "LOVE IS THE ONLY MASTER I'LL SERVE by Nicholas Lens @ Brooklyn Film Festival".
- ^ http://www.brooklynfilmfestival.org/films/detail.asp?fid=607
- http://www.flandersimage.com/browse-films/detail/love-is-the-only-master-ill-serve - ^ "Chairish | for Chic and Unique Homes | Axel Vervoordt, Furniture design blog, Brick loft".
- ^ Festival program BIFF New York City 2006