Love is the only master I’ll serve

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love is the only master I'll serve
A promotional poster for the film
Directed by	Nicholas Lens
Produced by	Nicholas Lens
Written by	Nicholas Lens
Starring	Louise Peterhoff Claron McFadden Clara-Lane Lens
Music by	Nicholas Lens
Cinematography	Renaat Lambeets
Editing by	Simone Rau, Stefan Rijcken
Release date(s)	June, 2006
Running time	22 min.
Language	Swedish / English / Latin

love is the only master I'll serve is a symbolical art film (22') written and directed by Nicholas Lens.

Contents 1 Festival selections 2 Storyline 3 Characters 4 Credits Production 5 Soundtrack 6 External links

[edit] Festival selections

• (Worldpremiere) Brooklyn International Film Festival, New York -June 2006 [1]
  
• Media and Dance, Tokyo - Japan, 2006
  
• Napolidanza, Italy, 2006
  
• The American Dance Festival, USA, 2006

[edit] Storyline

ref. [2]
One entity, divided in two women adresses himself to an imaginairy love-god (represented by a pipe-smoking child).
Body and voice of the divided entity are used to utter a spectrum of opposed sensations -caused by the division- and heightened sensitiveness related to the subject.
The divided entity is seeking a unification, which will not happen without the approval and support of the imaginairy love-god.

[edit] Characters

(reference Festival program BIFF New York 2006) [3] [4]

• The Whisper Kid,
  symbolizes a personalized love-god<
  
  • she looks with a certain distance and neutrality at the 2 creatures who address themselves to her;
    
  • her image is of pureness and young innocence;
    
  • to cut across this well-spread definition she smokes a big curled hanging pipe;
    
  • sometimes she blows and creates air bubbles of soap with the inhaled smoke;
    
  • by these actions the child character reveals a mysterious, elusive background of her own timelessness, of someone who could possibly be aged but appears this time in a gentle, different form<
    

• Luna,
  a human female mortal addressing herself indirectly (and sometimes directly) to the imaginairy love-god<
  
  • she figures as a sculpture, perplexed by the whisper kid, but finaly she looks straight in a static camera while she sings her ode to love, she expresses her devotion to the subject (“love is the only master I’ll serve”) by her self-chosen verbal communication;
    
  • her body almost doesn’t move, we only see a severe, sometimes frightened, sometimes completely desperate-for-love face expression<
    

• Serena,
  a human female mortal, addresses herself indirectly (and sometimes directly) to the imaginairy love-god<
  
  • she communicates her devotion to the subject by physical expression;
    
  • she dances, using a whole spectrum of facial and body statements, interrupted with spasmodic blitzes of short falling moves and/or like electrical shocks, like face and body are crying of pain and uncontrolled passion originated by the subject (as it appears sometimes when long periods of a constant energetic and inner peaceful mood is suddenly effected from outside, unexpectedly and on first sight unnecessary, like the pain of a needle in a body which is in a gentle, lovely sleeping state, a pain, abrupt and short, but more hurting, much deeper as one isn’t prepared for it)<
    

[edit] Credits Production

(reference Festival program BIFF New York 2006) [5]

• Written & Directed by Nicholas Lens
  

• Cast
  • Louise Peterhoff, (Serena)
  • Claron McFadden, (Luna)
  • (Introducing) Clara-Lane Lens, (The Whisper Kid)

• Crew
  • Photography and Camera, Renaat Lambeets
    
  • Choreography, Louise Peterhoff
    
  • Music & Libretto, Nicholas Lens
    
  • Art Director, Pierre-François Limbosch
    
  • Editing, Simone Rau
    
  • Additional Editing, Stefan Rijcken
    
  • Location: Karnak room, Axel Vervoort, Wijnegem, Belgium
    
  • Shooting Days: april 16-17, 2005
    
  • Executive Producer, Brigitte Baudine
    
  • Presented by Tabaran Company
  • Produced by Nicholas Lens
    

[edit] Soundtrack

Music Production:
The Accacha Chronicles 3rd part, Amor Aeternus -Hymns of Love, Nicholas Lens

• soloists
  • Claron McFadden, Ian Honeyman, Henk Lauwers, Derek Lee Ragin, Elka Simeonova, Galya Haralambieva, Paul Gérimon, Clara-Lane Lens, Angelite -Bulgarian Voices
    
• recording & mixing
  • acoustic vs studio's -Sofia, tabaran studio -Brussels, icp -Brussels, villaïda -Casablanca, bleu nuit -Brussels, villalou -Capetown
    
• distributed (2005) by Sony BMG Classics cd 82876 66238 2
  
• published by Schott Music International, Mainz/New York
  

[edit] External links

• Biff, New York [6]
• Official website Nicholas Lens' Website
• Schott Music International [7]
• Internet Movie Data Base [8]
• Sony BMG[9]