The Way of the Weed

  • 83'
  • Belgium
  • 1997
The makers: 'When asked which book he would like to save, Salvador Dali replied: Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel. This book describes the theory of anti-gravitation and freezing, the only two strategies for survival of the human race. The Way of the Weed is somewhere in between anti-gravitation and freezing. It is a quest in the desert for new life forms in the guise of an old experiment. The machines of Roussel have become enormous kaleidoscopic boxes. Thomas, a researcher, unravels the many possible life forms and their strange movements. Until everything starts floating. The actors are dancers from the Ballett Frankfurt, with in a special guest role the choreographer William Forsythe. The Way of the Weed has nothing to do with filmed choreographies, but is more about filming a special way of looking at moving bodies. A science-fiction experiment that forces the viewer to look at a moving body without the need to receive dramatic information. It invites one to look clinically, free of the usual eroticism of bodies in dance films. They are like X-ray pictures or scans of a body that can be manipulated into kaleidoscopic images, repeatedly driven by the fascination of the investigator for the detail of the body in motion.'
Directors
An-Marie Lambrechts, Peter Missotten, Anne Quirijnen
Country of production
Belgium
Year
1997
Festival Edition
IFFR 1998
Length
83'
Medium
Betacam SP PAL
Language
English
Producers
De Filmfabriek, George Brugmans, Interartes
Sales
De Filmfabriek
Cinematography
An-Marie Lambrechts, Anne Quirijnen, Peter Missotten
Editor
An-Marie Lambrechts, Anne Quirijnen, Peter Missotten
Production Design
An-Marie Lambrechts, Anne Quirijnen, Peter Missotten
Sound Design
An-Marie Lambrechts, Anne Quirijnen, Peter Missotten
Directors
An-Marie Lambrechts, Peter Missotten, Anne Quirijnen
Country of production
Belgium
Year
1997
Festival Edition
IFFR 1998
Length
83'
Medium
Betacam SP PAL
Language
English
Producers
De Filmfabriek, George Brugmans, Interartes
Sales
De Filmfabriek
Cinematography
An-Marie Lambrechts, Anne Quirijnen, Peter Missotten
Editor
An-Marie Lambrechts, Anne Quirijnen, Peter Missotten
Production Design
An-Marie Lambrechts, Anne Quirijnen, Peter Missotten
Sound Design
An-Marie Lambrechts, Anne Quirijnen, Peter Missotten