If the idea of folding and unfolding depends on the structure and expectations a city arouses or suppresses, what images can be produced by the coexistence of sound and space, the space between lived experience and a simultaneous reflection of it? In The Tuner’s Monologue a voice-over in the form of a monologue, in which a tuner of musical instruments describes aspects of the profession, is superimposed to B&W film footage of architectural facades of buildings under construction in the “new heart” of Rotterdam. Both text and footage have been subjected to an increased degree of abstraction.

CREDITS

Concept & realisation: Eleni Kamma
Camera: Boris Van Hoof
Editing: Inneke Van Waeyenberghe
Voice Over: Tina Van Baren
Voice recording took place at WORM, Rotterdam, Lukas Simonis
Original Text: Pie Leyser, piano tuner, interviewed by Eleni Kamma
Text adaptation: Popahna Brandes & Tina Van Baren

Produced with the support of the FONDS BKVB

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