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Love Is the Only Master I'll Serve

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love is the only master I'll serve is a symbolical art film (22') written and directed by Nicholas Lens.[1]

love is the only master I'll serve
A promotional poster for the film
Directed byNicholas Lens
Written byNicholas Lens
Produced byNicholas Lens
(executive producer: Brigitte Baudine)
StarringLouise Peterhoff
Claron McFadden
Clara-lane Lens
CinematographyRenaat Lambeets
Edited bySimone Rau, Stefan Rijcken
Music byNicholas Lens
Release date
  • June 2006 (2006-06)
Running time
22 min
LanguageSwedish / English / Latin

Festival selections

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  • (World premiere) Brooklyn International Film Festival, New York City - June 2006[2]
  • Media and Dance, Tokyo - Japan, 2006
  • Napolidanza, Italy, 2006
  • The American Dance Festival, United States, 2006
  • Media and Dance, Tokyo - Japan, 2020 (Best Selection)[3]

Plot

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One entity, divided into two women, addresses himself to an imaginary love-god represented by a pipe-smoking child. The 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

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(Reference for this paragraph Festival program BIFF New York City 2006)[5]

  • The Whisper Kid, symbolizes a personalized love-god.
    • she looks with a certain distance and neutrality at the two 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 does not 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

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Cast

Crew

Soundtrack

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

Soloists

Recording and mixing

References

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  1. ^ http://www.brooklynfilmfestival.org/films/detail.asp?fid=607
    - http://www.flandersimage.com/browse-films/detail/love-is-the-only-master-ill-serve
    - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0818686/?ref_=nm_flmg_com_2
  2. ^ "LOVE IS THE ONLY MASTER I'LL SERVE by Nicholas Lens @ Brooklyn Film Festival".
  3. ^ "DANCE AND MEDIA JAPAN International Dance Film Festival".
  4. ^ "LOVE IS THE ONLY MASTER I'LL SERVE by Nicholas Lens @ Brooklyn Film Festival".
  5. ^ http://www.brooklynfilmfestival.org/films/detail.asp?fid=607
    - http://www.flandersimage.com/browse-films/detail/love-is-the-only-master-ill-serve
  6. ^ "Chairish | for Chic and Unique Homes | Axel Vervoordt, Furniture design blog, Brick loft".
  7. ^ Festival program BIFF New York City 2006
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