Weerthof | video
My videos show I have a musical mind, not a visual one. I don't care much about equipment quality, unlike the music, the staging and editing. Talking imagery. Basically I film like I compose; an associative explosion, assembled afterwards. When image and sound come together to form a whole, I'm a happy man.
• Hoofd, schouders, knie en teen International (2010)
A linguistically accurate song of universal celebrative nature. Using the International Phonetic Alphabet to create the globally non-understandable party song!
Big thanks to all the wonderfull participants in the video: Paul Salemink, Diana Ejaita, Jesse Smitskamp, Wendy van den Bos, Lisah Baert, Lonne Gosling, Barbara Knapper, and all the happy people in the DMT-loods.
Special thanks to: Theo op ten Berg and Frans Reyner.
• Omenamehu (2009)
The non-infotainment kid show for adults. An eclectic assault on language. Omenamehu received a grant from the Dutch Art & Architecture Fund (Fonds BKVK). Which is very nice of them.
'"(...)By postulating the literal in a figurative sense, or by taking the figurative too literally, Michiel van de Weerthof is able to create a totally adjustable world. Absurd? ..it depends... ".
Text : Freek Lomme.
• De optocht (the Parade) (2008)
You may like it or not, but we are the stars of our own concert. De optocht (the parade) is a video-installation for 5 viewscreens. A parade of visual songs of bikes, trees, pretty women, birthdays, attics, people and many other instruments.
'The parade' is a video-installation for 5 viewscreens. Made specifically for my solo exhibition in Moira, Utrecht.
• Arrangementen (2006 - 2009)
It can be so simple. You hit rocks: music. Two cigarettes tumble on an escalator: a dance. 'Arrangementen' is an ongoing series of short films about the everyday symphony, in which we sometimes are instrument, sometimes are conductor.
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