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André re-organises time, rhythm and sound in her portrait of the new music composer/pianist Walter Hus, constructing a study of the process of composing. Playing on the title’s double meaning — “composition” and “composite” — André isolates musical gestures and fragments time, recomposing Hus’ evolving composition. In this vividly realised document, André establishes a formal analogy between the compositional process of Hus’ music and her own methodology of image-making. …
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Marie Andre engages in a subtle relationship with the choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and the dancers of her group, Rosas. The video both betrays and enhances the space and time of dancing, the camera follows or breaks up the movements of the dancers, the frame reveals the strain and the fulfilment of their bodies. The montage freely recounts the birth of the group’s last creation, ‘Elena’s Aria’. (heure-exquise.org) …
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The scene is Brussels, a summer afternoon, and the city seems suspended, silent, waiting. A young girl reads a letter from a friend who is away from the city on vacation. André then opens the narrative — fiction? document? — into a journal of the city in summer, which she presents as an urban landscape of open, empty spaces, from pastoral parks to corporate plazas. Brussels’ architecture, and its residents engaged in the transactions of daily life, …
