Interview met Claudia Lisboa

- door Olaf Risee

Aanstaande vrijdagavond worden in De Balie te Amsterdam vier korte films vertoond in het kader van het project 'Dichter op Dichter' waarin 5 dichters en 2 filmmakers zoeken naar de grens tussen poëzie en popcultuur. De verzameling filmische portretten van de dichters - Saskia de Jong, Els Moors, Tsead Bruinja en De Woorddansers - is door Stichting De Wintertuin op DVD uitgebracht en wordt aangeboden aan bibliotheken en middelbare scholen in Nederland om als bijzonder materiaal te gebruiken voor literatuurlessen. De films zijn geregisseerd door Remco Veenbrink en Claudia Lisboa. (Lisboa komt van oorsprong uit Brazilië en ze antwoordt derhalve in het Engels.)

Hoe is het idee van 'Dichter op Dichter' ontstaan?

Remco had the idea to make the films and he initiated the project. As for myself I wanted to investigate the borderline between poetry and mainstream films, as a reaction to the lack of poetry in most Hollywood inspired films. The three acts stories ask a couple of questions (at its best) and the audiences are allowed to foresee the answers but not to look them up for themselves. 'Dichter op Dichter' is a way of looking for more investigative and intriguing set ups having the written poetry as a catalisator for new ideas.
Remco has directed the films on De Woorddansers and Tsead Bruinja. I have directed the films on Els Moors and Saskia de Jong.

Wat is, behalve deze vier films, jullie band met poëzie?

Poetry is and should be everywhere. According to Remco poetry is really the first interactive media because the openess of it asks the viewer to be actively involved in the reading. But poetry is not only written words on a page, is a way of looking at everyday things. A more poetic approach to life keeps your brain open for questions which not always have to have an answer.
When we first got in contact with the work of the poets we are portraying we got really intrigued by it. In my case, who does not speak enough Dutch to understand exactly everything, their poetry opened a lot of channels of possible meanings. It was like a playground where I was given total freedom to interpret what I was reading. That made me very curious, raised a lot of questions and brought a lot of images to my brain. Those were developed into a sequence of images whose lack of common logic invites the viewer to interact as well.

Hoe is de samenwerking met de dichters bevallen?

The concept was grown out of the work of the poets so it was a common effort. It was really fun working with them because of their great generosity: they gave us the freedom to interpret and use their poetry to convert it into imagery.

Comments

[Geplaatst door: max lerou]

mijn zoontje vroeg vanmorgen wat contradictie betekent

ik gaf hem als voorbeeld de woorddansers en literatuur...hij begreep direct