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Both in 'The Blind' and in ‘The Death of Titiaan‘, Paul Missotten conjures with a silence that is not present on the sound track. For there is constant talk, there is music, there are all kinds of sounds and yet it is silent. There seems to be a kind of a story in this video, but it keeps escaping you, like a name you can't quite remember. There is a boy who hitches to the city, but never arrives there. He ends up in a ruin between the abandoned hills of a shimmeringly hot landscape. Together with three other boys, who repair the house, he lodges there a few days. They say little, smoke a lot and go swimming sometimes. Now and then something happens. Through all this weaves an unfinished text from Hugo Von Hoffmannsthal, 'The Death of Titian'. The painter Titian's pupils wait on a mountain top for his death. Below them we see the lights of the city in the distance. Hoffmannsthal's words sometimes relate to the images that belong to the story of the young hitch hiker. But it crushes and wrenches, the text gives rise to the suspicion that there is a meaning to the story and yet undermines it at the same time. Until Titian is finally dead and the waiting has passed.
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Lies Holtrop
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Scenario: Hugo von Hoffmannsthal, Peter Geysemans, Peter Missotten, Camera: Koenraad Heiremans, Sound: Roel Moons, Music, sound mixing and sonorisation: Hans Helewaut, Voice: Tom Jansen, With: Klaas Verpoest, Peter Heysemans, Roel Vinckens, Angelique Baeyens, Johan van Lommel, Production: Josee Lehon, Stichting Kunst in het College, AV-dienst K.U. Leuven
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