Think about Wood, Think about Metal
Manon de Boer – BE 2011 – 48 min. 
C: Sébastien Koeppel – E: Manon de Boer – S: Aline Blondiau – M: Robyn Schulkowsky, George van Dam – Mit Robyn Schulkowsky – P: Auguste Orts
16mm on video – Dolby Surround – English
German Premiere
In a series of films in which we discover the portrait of a woman, Manon de Boer prolongs her experiments during the meeting with Robyn Schulkowsky. In Italy and then Germany, the rotation of the lens leads us in a false loop where the visible is metamorphosed by the audible. The meetings of the musician make up the journey of an instrumentalist confronted with some contemporary composers whose evocation disturbs our appreciation of the pieces performed. The sound portrait animates the vision of performance spaces. (Gilles Grand) "Think about Wood, Think about Metal" is a third cinematic portrait in a trilogy on the seventies. The two other films are "Sylvia Kristel – Paris" (2003) and "Resonating Surfaces" (2005).
Manon de Boer, born in 1966 in Kodaicanal/India. She studied at the Akademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Rotterdam and at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Now she lives and works in Brussels.
Films (selection) Sylvia Kristel – Paris 2003 (UX’06) – Resonating Surfaces 2005 (UX’06) – Presto, Perfect Sound 2006 – Villes Saisies 2007 – Two Times 4'33" 2008 (UX’08) – Attica 2008 (UX’08) – Dissonant 2010 – Think About Wood, Think About Metal 2011 – One, two, many 2012