love is the only master I'll serve is a symbolical art film (22') written and directed by Nicholas Lens.
(Worldpremiere) Brooklyn International Film Festival, New York City -June 2006 [1]Media and Dance, Tokyo - Japan, 2006Napolidanza, Italy, 2006The American Dance Festival, United States, 2006One entity, divided in two women addresses himself to an imaginary love-god (represented by a pipe-smoking child).
Body and voice of the divided entity are used to utter a spectrum of opposed sensations -caused by the division- and heightened sensitiveness related to the subject.
The divided entity is seeking a unification, which will not happen without the approval and support of the imaginary love-god.
(reference for this paragraf Festival program BIFF New York City 2006)
The Whisper Kid, symbolizes a personalized love-god.she looks with a certain distance and neutrality at the 2 creatures who address themselves to her;her image is of pureness and young innocence;to cut across this well-spread definition she smokes a big curled hanging pipe;sometimes she blows and creates air bubbles of soap with the inhaled smoke;by these actions the child character reveals a mysterious, elusive background of her own timelessness, of someone who could possibly be aged but appears this time in a gentle, different form.Luna, a human female mortal addressing herself indirectly (and sometimes directly) to the imaginary love-god.she figures as a sculpture, perplexed by the whisper kid, but finally she looks straight in a static camera while she sings her ode to love, she expresses her devotion to the subject (“love is the only master I’ll serve”) by her self-chosen verbal communication;her body almost doesn’t move, we only see a severe, sometimes frightened, sometimes completely desperate-for-love face expression.Serena, a human female mortal, addresses herself indirectly (and sometimes directly) to the imaginary love-god.she communicates her devotion to the subject by physical expression;she dances, using a whole spectrum of facial and body statements, interrupted with spasmodic blitzes of short falling moves and/or like electric shocks, like face and body are crying of pain and uncontrolled passion originated by the subject (as it appears sometimes when long periods of a constant energetic and inner peaceful mood is suddenly effected from outside, unexpectedly and on first sight unnecessary, like the pain of a needle in a body which is in a gentle, lovely sleeping state, a pain, abrupt and short, but more hurting, much deeper as one isn’t prepared for it).Written & Directed by Nicholas LensCastLouise Peterhoff, (Serena)Claron McFadden, (Luna)(Introducing) Clara-Lane Lens, (The Whisper Kid)CrewPhotography and Camera, Renaat LambeetsChoreography, Louise PeterhoffMusic & Libretto, Nicholas LensArt Director, Pierre-François LimboschEditing, Simone RauAdditional Editing, Stefan RijckenLocation: Karnak room, Axel Vervoordt, Wijnegem, BelgiumShooting Days: April 16–17, 2005Executive Producer, Brigitte BaudinePresented by Tabaran CompanyProduced by Nicholas Lens(reference Festival program BIFF New York City 2006) [2]
Music Production:
The Accacha Chronicles 3rd part, Amor Aeternus -Hymns of Love, Nicholas Lens
soloistsClaron McFadden, Ian Honeyman, Henk Lauwers, Derek Lee Ragin, Elka Simeonova, Galya Haralambieva, Paul Gérimon, Clara-Lane Lens, Angelite -Bulgarian Voicesrecording & mixingacoustic vs studio's -Sofia, tabaran studio -Brussels, icp -Brussels, villaïda -Casablanca, bleu nuit -Brussels, villalou -Cape Towndistributed (2005) by Sony BMG Classics cd 82876 66238 2published by Schott Music International, Mainz/New York City 
