16mm-film, live music, 10 minutes, colour, ©2001
Unwritten Page is a 16mm-film made for a composition by Antoine Beuger.
I was asked to select a contemporary piece of music to be performed live by a small ensemble, Q-O2, and to make an ‘incidental film’ to it. To be part of an evening program called 'Muziek in Beeld', music in image.
Initially it was difficult for me to understand why one would want to add a moving image to an existing piece of music. The only answer to my question that was given to me was “why not?”.
At that time I was interested in making moving images without ballast. I was trying to filter out the basic needs to get to ‘a film' and kept nothing but a screen, projected light and time as the necessary elements to make an image move. Listening to the recording of "Unwritten Page" by Antoine Beuger, I found a companion. I was surprised to hear its minimal and simple violin tones appear and disappear, with their careful presence only to be noticed in the detailed changes and during the spaces of silence between them.
-Brussels, 2001
-Waregem, 2001
-Schoten, 2002
-Köln, 2003
-Karlstad, Sweden, 2016