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Verfilming van
de gelijknamige opera van Richard Wagner
“De Walkure (The Valkyrie) is part two of a startling, irreverent
and visually inventive adaptation of Richard Wagner’s Der Ring
des Nibelungen. (…) De Walkure is no video transposition of
the classic opera, but a fully realized reinvention that casts the
action within a pliable electronic space. (…) In De Walkure,
the Theys have employed video’s specific properties, fashioning
a clever and audacious work that rings true.” Steve Reid, Pacific
Film Archive, Sept. 89
“Wagner has been subject to so much revision over the past
40 years that some audiences may be ready to face the 85-minute video
“Walkure” of the Belgian brothers Frank and Koen Theys.
(…) Purists shouldn’t even think about going. But for
anyone else, the brilliance of the Theys’ imagery may make up
for the unthinkable liberties they take: their futurist/surrealist
vision of the drama would mark them as superb designers even if they
had been limited to a conventional stage. (…) The temptation
is to keep listing images. The Theys have a great sense of style,
weird or funny as the notions they come up with may be, they‘re
never tacky, and how many productions of Wagner can you say that about?
But the brother’s manipulation of electronic space – their
use of video overlays – is what makes this “Walkure”
stunning. (…) They go way beyond the familiar plasticity of
screen space. By layering and by changing video overlays as fluid
as Wagner changes keys, they come up with a kind of visual chromaticism,
a method in which the pictures rival – or at least have the
potential to rival – the richness and the complexity of the
music. (…) The brothers set out to master Wagner and they end
up serving him. Their “Walkure” deserves to be seen.”
Craig Seligman, San Francisco Examiner, Sept. 29th 1989
“Zonder omwegen gezegd lijken Koen en Frank Theys een nieuw
aspect van Wagner te hebben blootgelegd, door te stellen dat zijn
theorie van de mythe en de actuele mythologische functie van TV en
video elkaar aanvullen. Hun these over TV als drager van de oermythologie
is rijk en genuanceerd. (…) Theys en Theys omzeilen zelfs een
fundamenteel Wagneriaans probleem: zoals bekend is de muziek aanhoudend
veel eloquenter dan wat er op het toneel te doen is. (…) Bij
Theys en Theys zien we voor het eerst een tweede bedrijf van De Walkure
waar iets meer te zien is dan een dikke god die met zijn dochter van
gedachten wisselt. (…) De associatieve rijkdom van de leidmotieven,
kan, zo blijkt nu, via video een volmaakt visueel equivalent krijgen.
Net zo gedetailleerd en trouw aan de motoriek van Wagners verhaal
is de tweede geluidstrack die naast zangers en muziek druk weerwerk
levert. Theys en Theys ontrafelen met respect Wagners overdaad aan
duiding en betekenaars. Godard en Derrida bestaan echt.” André
Hebbelinck, Knack 12-04-89
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