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'love is the only master I'll serve' is a symbolical art film (22') written and directed by Nicholas Lens.http://www.brooklynfilmfestival.org/films/detail.asp?fid=607
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- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0818686/?ref_=nm_flmg_com_2


Festival selections



*(World premiere) Brooklyn International Film Festival, New York City - June 2006

*Media and Dance, Tokyo - Japan, 2006

*Napolidanza, Italy, 2006

*The American Dance Festival, United States, 2006

*Media and Dance, Tokyo - Japan, 2020 (Best Selection)

Plot



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.

Characters



'(Reference for this paragraph Festival program BIFF New York City 2006)http://www.brooklynfilmfestival.org/films/detail.asp?fid=607
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*'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 isnt prepared for it).

Credits Production



*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-Franois Limbosch

*Editing - Simone Rau

*Additional editing - Stefan Rijcken

*Location - Karnak room, Axel Vervoordt, Wijnegem, Belgium

*Shooting days - April 1617, 2005

*Executive producer - Brigitte Baudine

*Presented by Tabaran Company

*Produced by Nicholas Lens[http://www.wbff.org/films/detail.asp?fid=607 Festival program BIFF New York City 2006]



Soundtrack



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 Grimon, Clara-Lane Lens, Angelite -Bulgarian Voices

'Recording and mixing'

*Acoustic studios - Sofia, Tabaran Studio - Brussels, ICP - Brussels, Villada - 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



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