|
How wonderful it is to hear someone say that ‘Ivanhoe’ was his first favourite book because - and now he uses the adult terminology of a wise person who is not ashamed of nostalgic feelings - identification with the hero guaranteed a perfect causality with regard to his own particular existence. All the girls at school were nice. “We held each other’s hands; it was a dream.” While a naked model stands self-assured in a sterile space, he tells of his first sight of a woman. He was in love with Majory Bacon (“I always had problems with that surname & I remained a virgin until I was 22”), but his separation lasted eighteen years. The sound of a metronome and the rhythmical movements of glass shards illustrate the confirmation that the marriage was cold. Lessons in life like this which someone visualises by doodling schematically on paper as if performing a cabbalistic exorcism ritual, are also expressed by a young opera singer. While she voices the human thematic, her texts - about vanity, loneliness and intimate secrets - move across the screen. When you close your eyes you can fly through time and space. That’s why - beautiful - memories of youth are such a precious possession (as this tape elaborately demonstrates).
–
Erik Daams
|
Text Norman Shine, Carl Sch. Nørrested and others, Camera Steen M. Ras mussen, Poul Cohen, Ane Mette Ruge, Jens Tans, Editing Ane Mette Ruge, Jacob F. Schokking, Lisbeth Lund-Hansen, Hans Fauerby, Sound Ole Lyd Rasmussen, Music Jan M. Goorissen, With Norman Shine, Carl Sch. Nørrested, Mariola Mainka and others, Production Holland House
|
|
1 9 9 6 
