arnoud noordegraaf

composer | director

about | work | agenda | media | contact

Pong

harpsichord, sound track, DVD video

written for Annelie de Man, in loving memory.

duration: 25 minutes


scenario: Arnoud Noordegraaf & Paul van der Laan

composed and directed by Arnoud Noordegraaf.

cast: Paul van der Laan, Gonny Gaakeer

camera: Lennert Hillege

film production: inexcelsisvideo


premiere: January 2004, Film Museum, Amsterdam

Int. prem. at the Weimar Festival, in collaboration with the Ballet Frankfurt

next up:: January 24, 2012: Filharmonie Poland (pref. by Goska Isphording)

 
In Pong, a man (Paul van der Laan, winner Dutch 2003 theatre prize) is playing a tennis match against his ball-machine. On a Sunday afternoon the man and his wife (Gonny Gaakeer) spent time in their luxurious villa. There's an unbearable tension between the two. They don't speak but do play each other. These two worlds seem like the angry nightmare versus the cold reality, untill they start merging in to one another.


Pong is a film+music project. Apart from being a film, Pong is a composition for harpsichord and tape, which is performed live while right in front of the projection. Because of a unique combination of the live instrument with it's own counterpart and severe electronics on the soundtrack, music and film melt into one another and become one audio visual spectacle.


This production was realized through the inexcelsisvideo foundation, which is dedicated to helping young artists realize film and video aspects of their work.


Pong was performed at the Weimar art festival as a double bill with the famous Ballet Frankfurt of Bill Forsythe in 2004.

It was also performed at the Warschauer Herbst festival, and many other festivals and venues including Reina Arte Sophia in Madrid, Rotterdam Film Festival, and venues all over the world, from England to Australia. Harpsichordist Annelie de Man performed it dozens if not  hundreds of times. Even in Indonesia! It was broadcast on the Kunst kanaal television channel in 2006.


Video trailer in the media section


In 2010, Annelie de Man sadly passed away. This composition is dedicated to her and will be published “in loving memory”. Any proceedings will be donated to the Annelie de Man Foundation.


 

Full credit list:


cast

Paul van der Laan

Gonny Gaakeer


klavecimbel

Annelie de Man


regie & compositie

Arnoud Noordegraaf


scenario

Arnoud Noordegraaf & Paul van der Laan


uitvoerend producent

Teijl van Beest


regie assistent

Rick Stout


camera

Lennert Hillege


camera assistent

Rolf Dekens


editor

Synco Schölvinck


geluidsmixage & foley

Wart Wamsteker


opnameleiding

Michael John Fedun

Vargo Bawtis


ass. productieleiding

Robert Labruyere


gaffer

Lonneke Worm


best boy

Marc de Meijer


belichters

Diderik Evers

Karina van der Berg

Jan Moeskops

Michael Brooke

Sven Kommers


grip

Sal Kroonenberg

Joris Kerbosch


geluid

Stephan de Groen

Robin Meijers


set dressers

Eveline Puijk

Marieke Winters


make-up

Claudette Voorn


kleding

Sanna de Jong


making of & Still photography

Danielle van Vree


productie assistenten

Nadja Koseva

Marenka Gabeler

Juri Keuter


catering

Tjeerd en Kiek Bosch


met speciale dank aan


Rein en Hanneke van der Laan


Pieter en Anneke van Vree



stock Kodak Nederland

licht Singel Film

meubulair NOB décor

negatiefontwikkeling Cineco

scanning & tape-to-tape Judith de Boer, AVP


met dank aan

AMCAR • Holland Equipment • NFTA • Schoonderbeek Hillegom

Luuk Vierhout • Joris Pinkster • David Weber-Krebs


deze productie werd mede mogelijk gemaakt door

Fonds voor de Podiumkunsten

Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst


© inexcelsisvideo 2003