Composition by Geert Callaert
A woman, concerned about the continual absences of her husband, commissions a detective to follow him and report back to her. At first glance this appears to be a classic fictional device, all the more so since Charles Dekeukeleire segments his film with titles informing us of the latest developments of the story. Yet this framework serves only to set up a narrative pretext for disrupting narrative itself in favour of pure cinema. For the detective uses photographic equipment as an instrument of investigation: thus, the camera becomes the principal character and its subjectivity the principal subject of the film. Titles designed by painter Victor Servranckx.
Daily emptiness
Stupidity
The calm
part of the double-dvd Avant-Garde: surrealism and experiment in Belgian Cinema
At the end of the nineteen twenties, two future film-makers discover their medium. Charles Dekeukeleire and Henri Storck will become famous documentary film-makers, but their debuts consist of experiments and the search of a 'pure cinema'. With the occasional surrealists Henri d'Ursel and Ernst Moerman, they make up the first avant-garde generation in Belgian cinema.
Jonathan's ideas are becoming more clear
Seven composers wrote the music for these unique films: Joachim Brackx, Eric Sleichim, Jan Van Outryve, Annelies Van Parys (in residence at Transparant) and Mireille Capelle, Geert Callaert and Thomas Smetryns (in residence at HERMESensemble). The works for ensemble are performed by the HERMES ensemble conducted by Koen Kessels.
Comment: a marvellous box, with wonderfull music compositions that fit these pieces perfectly.
If you're really interested, I recommend buying it; it's package and booklet (100 pages) alone are worth it. It's completely, booklet included, tri-lingual (Dutch, French AND English)
This 'Histoire de Détective' remains very fresh and kicking. Recommended.
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