From a long history of collaboration – the soundtrack of Manon de Boer’s Sylvia Kristel - Paris (2003), Resonating Surfaces (2005) and Think about Wood, Think about Metal (2011) and her portrait of George van Dam in Presto, Perfect Sound (2006) – came the desire to work together to make a film based on the composition Sequenza VIII for solo violin by Luciano Berio. Van Dam and de Boer explore how rhythm and the crystalline structure of this composition can be articulated in conjunction with moving images to go even deeper into the composition. De Boer is fascinated by the image and abstract details of the intimate contact of the chin, the ears, the face of the violinist with the violin, which extends in the movement of his arms and hands to the body and space. The body and the violin seem to dissolve and dance away in the (sound)space.
