This film is the result of a Belgian one-minute long short film competition. I've chosen to upload this film here because it has already been chosen as one of the winners, which means it will be shown a number of times during the Summer at prime-time on one of the two major government subsidised channels. Although I was initially wary about making such short films, I finally decided that it couldn't hurt and even though I probably wouldn't be chosen at least my films would get a bit more exposure. It was a truly pleasant surprise to be chosen.. Like all my work, this film can be interpreted in a number of different ways; it is intentionally stylised to compare it to the extroversion of the romantic tradition, which perhaps achieves some of its most extreme expressions in the major competition held here. It is also about the relationship between music and our experience of time and the shifting borders between 'art', 'pretense', 'artificial' and the fine arts. Seeing it only lasts one minute, at least no one can complain about it being too long! The title is a little-known saying in High Fodish which is based around the two verbs dumet and madet. DUMET is no longer used on its own, but in Old Fodish it referred to the act of worship which apparently signified while it was taking place and could have no significance outside of that. MADET is a better-known verb which has its origin in the act of counting and to work; it implies also action. These two verbs combine to form a ...

• published: 27 Jul 2009
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• author: nachtschimmen