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Polyphonic music developed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the courts and religious centres of Europe, and was a withhod of composition whereby the various voices were treated as wholly or partly separate from each other. In 'Polyphonists', an identical line of thought is expressed in a mirror-like perspective of history as seen through the eyes of today. The music of polyphonic Flemish composers such as Agricola, Dufay, Ciconia and Desprez, performed by Paul van Nevel's Huelgas Ensemble, is used by Decostere in various framings within the picture on the screen as an effective illustration of this originally fragmentary style of music. The contradictory and yet mutually supplementary accounts of two narrators emphasize both the popularity and the vilification which the polyphonists experienced in their own time. This paradox, which literally stamps itself on polyphonic music through the way in which the voices of the singers in all their independence yet retain a constant dependence on each other, applies equally to the writing of history, in which language is the first obstacle and a definitive model as a standard is an impossible criterium.
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Erik Quint
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Scenario: Stefaan Decostere, Paul Pourvoir Camera: Freddy Bouckhout, Luc Couwenbergs, Johan Corens, Stefan Cortvriendt, Rogier Leclerq, Marcel Martin, Roger van Aken, Editing: Eddy Bergiers, Dany Staes, Paul Vandenhouten, Light: Hendrik Reynaerts, Jules van Riet, Willy Ivens, Jaak Vulsteke, Noel Callaert, Lucien Limbourg, Sound: Jan van Welckenhuysen, Edgar Luyckx, Jozef de Troyer, Hugo Stemger, Sound mixing: Guido Godon, Production: Dienst Kunstzaken BRT, With: Wily Thomas, Hilde Vis, Huelgas Ensemble
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