JOHAN VAN DER KEUKEN ON ANIMAL LOCOMOTION (1994)

Director: Johan van der Keuken

Year: 1994

Time: 15 mins

Music:

Willem Breuker - Composer, Bass Clarinet

Peter Barkema - Soprano Sax

Alex Coke - Flute, Piccolo

Nico Nijholt - Trombone

Bernard Hunnekink - Tuba

Henk de Jonge - Piano

Arjen Gorter - Bass

Rob Verdurmen - Drums

Han Bennink - Drums

Lorre Lynn Trytten - Violin

Aimee Versloot - Viola

Susanne Degerfors - Cello

Eye of Sound: Shot in several European locations, this short film is defined by the director as a "self-portrait in locomotion". It is difficult to discern a plot or a general meaning in this collection of images, except for the admittedly vague possibility of a repertoire of what keeps humans going, and an insistence on motion. Breuker has been Keuken's companion in most of his films, endowing them with his brand combination of meticulous orchestral composition and open-space improv. On Animal Locomotion features Keuken's typical free-form sensibility and quasi-ethnographic approach to the documentary genre, much in the same way that Breuker's score literally runs across fields of unsurpassable lyricism and irreparable fracturation. 

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