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
(executive producer: Brigitte Baudine)
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

[edit] Festival selections

[edit] Storyline

ref. [2]
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.

[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 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 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 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).

[edit] Credits Production

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

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

[edit] Soundtrack

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

[edit] External links