Sehnsucht

Hannes d’Hoine (music) and Stijn Grupping (video) delved into the BERLIN archive and set to work with footage filmed for the show Bonanza. Sehnsucht is a film tableau for which Grupping revisited a short excerpt from Bonanza. Grupping plays with time and perception in such a way that the landscape gradually transmutes and even seems to dissolve. In Sehnsucht, image and sound reinforce each other organically. D’Hoine started composing after watching the archival footage several times. He was inspired by the lives of the remaining inhabitants of the almost abandoned mining town and the vast, mysterious landscape that surrounds them. Sehnsucht suggests that, besides the stories covered in the performance, more lies hidden in the footage: unexplored secrets that hide just below the surface.

Sehnsucht is the first in a series of tableaux for which D’Hoine and Grupping will work with archival material as part of YouTurn. The project may take different forms as it progresses.