Onder een koperen hemel

Beneath a copper sky | text by Stefan Hertmans. HD, colour/sound, 3'50", 2018. An assignment of Poëziecentrum, Ghent (B).

©Alexandra Crouwers

‘Onder een koperen hemel’ werd gemaakt in opdracht van het Poëziecentrum in Gent, als onderdeel van de presentatie van de gelijknamige dichtbundel van auteur Stefan Hertmans (De Bezige Bij, 2018).

 

MODUS OPERANDI

Out of over 60 pages of poetry, I selected three texts: two fragments and one whole poem. The film is built up as a trilogy: I, II and ‘ergens’ (or: ‘somewhere’).

 

The first part is based on the first lines of the title poem: ‘Beneath a copper sky’. Thus, a copper sky is shown. The second part situates the poem near a castle at night. The third part describes hands without bodies hovering above a poker table. The images are – in my own way – pretty self-explanatory. The font used is the neutral Helvetica. The soundtrack was added after the video edit was finished.

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