For once Berlin puts the documentary aside and focuses on an intriguing and associative narrative. With Ramble Song it catapults music – a floating bottom layer in previous work – to the foreground. In a series of film tableaux a poetic ramble develops inspired by the figure of the drifter and navigating between melancholy and black humour. Pictorial paintings or tranches de vie populated by people who have experienced both beauty and disappointment.
The public is seated in an installation in the form of an intimate mini-arena. This organism in sleep mode is filled up with life by means of live music and pictures. The soundtrack goes wide : with echoes of neoclassical music but also pumping krautrock and broadly flaring synth-driven soundscapes. The daily noise between our ears makes place for a musical universe that is crystallized in image – and vice versa.
In Ramble Song three musicians in the middle of the arena are fired on live by Berlin's house composer Peter Van Laerhoven. Since the very beginning he has always helped colour the universe of Berlin and he is supported live by Tim Coenen, Eric Thielemans and Tine Hubrechts. They give Ramble Song a different form from previous work by Berlin but also here forms of presentation are ingeniously puzzled into a powerful whole. The deep humanity even goes much deeper, past anecdotism and dominating story lines. Afterwards the music is available, both on vinyl and in digital edition.
“Berlin hands you the keys to document your inner world” (Gilles Michiels, De Standaard)
CONCEPT EN REGIE BERLIN [Bart Baele en Yves Degryse] / SPEL FILM Luk Sponselee, Menno De Schrijver, Michel Van Looveren, Jane Seynaeve, Anthe Baele, Jasper Meuris, Ester Van Nuffel, Ninke De Roeck, Mo Franken, Sigrid Desplentere, Jérôme Gouardères, Jaak Fremault en Billie Ghadhoun Seynaeve / FIGURATIE FILM Joost van der Boom, Quiny Voorn, Patrick Oost, Andre Beukers, Marianne Buwalda, Devon Guy, Amber van Wijk, Stijn Lutz, Michiel Hendriks, Bas Ruhl, Rainier van Amelsvoort, Liesbeth Peels , Pien van Welbergen-Danen, Pharmindra Kedar, You Zheng Chou en Nicole Honnebier / VIDEO EN MONTAGE Bart Baele, Geert De Vleesschauwer en Fien Leysen / SCENOGRAFIE Manu Siebens en BERLIN / SET DRESSER Jessica Ridderhof / COMPOSITIE MUZIEK Peter Van Laerhoven / UITVOERING MUZIEK Peter Van Laerhoven, Tine Hubrechts, Eric Thielemans en Tim Coenen [live & film], Mo Franken, Ester Van Nuffel en Ninke De Roeck [film] / KOSTUUMS Jessica Ridderhof, Jane Seynaeve, Perrine Philomeen en Doris van der Molen / VISAGIE Jane Seynaeve, Saskia Verreycken en Lona Cerutti / FIGURANTENBEGELEIDING Angeliek Vermonden en Lara Arnoldus / FOTOGRAFIE Koen Broos en Luis Xertu / GRAFISCHE VORMGEVING Corbin Mahieu / TECHNISCHE COÖRDINATIE Manu Siebens en Geert De Vleesschauwer / GELUID Arnold Bastiaanse, Bas De Caluwe, Maarten Moesen en Karel Verstreken / PRODUCTIELEIDING Jessica Ridderhof / PRODUCTIE BERLIN / ZAKELIJKE LEIDING Kurt Lannoye / ADMINISTRATIE Jane Seynaeve / SPREIDING Eveline Martens / COMMUNICATIE Sam Loncke / MET DANK AAN Florine Schaap, Regul Bogaert, Tamara Esseling, Charlotte Willems, Lars Senders, Peter De Haan Uitvaartservice, De Studio (Antwerpen), J&M Catering, Bart De Muynck, Rotterdams Volkstheater, Gracy's, Roodkapje/Burgertrut, Carole Seynaeve en Ruth Lodder / COPRODUCENTEN DE SINGEL [Antwerpen, BE], le CENTQUATRE-PARIS [FR] en C-TAKT [Limburg, BE] de Vlaamse Overheid, Tax Shelter van de Belgische Federale Overheid (Podiumfonds) en de stad Antwerpen BERLIN is associated artist bij DE SINGEL [Antwerpen, BE] en artiste associé bij le CENTQUATRE-PARIS [FR]
