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The Monolog is part of the stage porduction Ottone Ottone by Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker of 1988, based on the opera L'Incoronatione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi. For the first time, Walter Verdin's film version has transformed a historical opera into an independent camera choreography.
The final monolog by Fumiyo Ikeda, presented to the public as an independent short film already in 1989, is a single film take filmed in black-and-white.
The installation was shown on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's dance company at the Palais de Beaux Art in Brussels in 2002. In 2003, Water Verdin produced a newly edited version of the film specifically for this installation.
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Walter Verdin
Born 1953 in Anderlecht/Belgium
Education: Study of Art History and the Applied Arts
The video artist and composer who received numerous distinctions works with choreographers like Anne Teresa De Keermaeker, Wim Vandekeybus, Steve Paxton et al. In the mid-1990s he created his own video installations such as Videolepsia (1993) and the video concert X<AFRIKA (1996). Together with his video/music ensemble CORBAN Walter Verdin explores the possibilities of the interaction of video with dance, music and theatre.
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