Love Is the Only Master I'll Serve

love is the only master I'll serve
A promotional poster for the film
Directed by Nicholas Lens
Produced by Nicholas Lens
(executive producer: Brigitte Baudine)
Written by Nicholas Lens
Starring Louise Peterhoff
Claron McFadden
Clara-Lane Lens
Music by Nicholas Lens
Cinematography Renaat Lambeets
Edited by Simone Rau, Stefan Rijcken
Release date
 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.[1][2][3]

Festival selections

  • (Worldpremiere) Brooklyn International Film Festival, New York City -June 2006
  • Media and Dance, Tokyo - Japan, 2006
  • Napolidanza, Italy, 2006
  • The American Dance Festival, United States, 2006

Storyline

One entity, divided in two women addresses himself to an imaginary 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 imaginary love-god.[4]

Characters

(reference for this paragraf Festival program BIFF New York City 2006)[5][6]

  • 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 imaginary love-god.
    • she figures as a sculpture, perplexed by the whisper kid, but finally 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 imaginary 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 electric 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).

Credits Production

(reference Festival program BIFF New York City 2006)

Soundtrack

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

References

  1. ↑ http://www.brooklynfilmfestival.org/films/detail.asp?fid=607
  2. ↑ http://www.flandersimage.com/browse-films/detail/love-is-the-only-master-ill-serve
  3. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0818686/?ref_=nm_flmg_com_2
  4. ↑ http://www.brooklynfilmfestival.org/films/detail.asp?fid=607
  5. ↑ http://www.brooklynfilmfestival.org/films/detail.asp?fid=607
  6. ↑ http://www.flandersimage.com/browse-films/detail/love-is-the-only-master-ill-serve
  7. ↑ https://www.pinterest.com/pin/396809417141513471/
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  • Schott Music International
  • Internet Movie Data Base
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