Kurt d’Haeseleer created the video design for Isabella Soupart’s take on one of Shakespeare’s emblematic works. Hamlet is projected into a world ruled by the powerful media and imbued with the films of Antonioni, the Japanese cinema and other influences.
Drawing from literature, cinema, music and dance, this Brussels-based director distils from them an approach of her own: an eminently personal visual, spatial and auditory world. Excerpts from accounts and interviews complete this vision of a hyper-mediatised world that is under surveillance. To a background of live rock music, the actor-dancers clash with the mechanisms of power, the violence of love, insanity and destruction. Hamlet “revisited”.
Concept, regie, choreografie
Isabella Soupart
Scenografie
Jim Clayburgh
Video
Kurt D’Haeseleer
Productie
Cie Isabella Soupart –
a.s.b.l. Made in Bruxelles
Coproductie
KVS, Festival Temps d’Images
2007 / Ferme du Buisson
(Marne-la-Vallée) /
Les Halles (Bruxelles) ,
Kunstenfestivaldesarts
Kurt d'Haeseleer 