Boris Van Der Avoort

La Valse is dance a film by Thierry De Mey based on the choreography created on Maurice Ravel’s La Valse as the final part of ZOO’s performance Accords. Created as part of the triptych Equi Voci, the film La Valse exists in versions for one or three screens.

B., a film-maker and insomniac, decides to rescue his hours of insomnia from the void by filming his quest for sleep. The insomniac asks questions about these different states of consciousness and about the difficulties humans have in synchronising their social rhythms and biological ones.

Tippeke began as an impulse by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Thierry De Mey in 1996 to experiment with some leftover 16mm film. A nursery rhyme that De Keersmaeker used to recite to her son almost daily during the period formed the starting point, together with a movement sequence that she had recently worked out. The enthusiasm after the first film rushes ensured that the project gradually began to take more serious form. Tippeke was initially a part of the show Woud, three movements to the music of Schönberg, Berg & Wagner. The music was performed live in the show and some dancers from the company also danced synchronically in front of the screen. Tippeke was also released onto the market later as a short film.

"Le champ des visions" a documentary that addresses the relationship between man and animal-insect through stories, legends, memories, intimate sensations... I spent 4 years questioning the relationship between insect man. I filmed hundreds of hours of images, read captions, listened to stories, revisited my memories and my feelings to finally make a film: "Le champ des visions". This film is an invitation to share my encounter with beauty, strangeness, difference. Reporting on my personal quest is a tribute to gay knowledge. But it is also a manifesto for the freedom to slow down, to rediscover the child in us, its curiosity, its wonder. Let's cross the limits imposed by our senses, our habits, our prejudices to invigorate our sometimes sclerotic approach to the world...