Love Is the Only Master I'll Serve


love is the only master I'll serve is a symbolical art film written and directed by Nicholas Lens.

Festival selections

Plot

One entity, divided into two women, addresses himself to an imaginary love-god represented by a pipe-smoking child. The body and voice of the divided entity are used to utter a spectrum of opposed sensations - caused by the division - and heightened sensitiveness related to the subject. The divided entity is seeking a unification, which will not happen without the approval and support of the imaginary love-god.

Characters

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  • The Whisper Kid, symbolizes a personalized love-god.
  • *she looks with a certain distance and neutrality at the two creatures who address themselves to her;
  • *her image is of pureness and young innocence;
  • *to cut across this well-spread definition she smokes a big curled hanging pipe;
  • *sometimes she blows and creates air bubbles of soap with the inhaled smoke;
  • *by these actions the child character reveals a mysterious, elusive background of her own timelessness, of someone who could possibly be aged but appears this time in a gentle, different form.
  • Luna, a human female mortal addressing herself indirectly to the imaginary love-god.
  • *she figures as a sculpture, perplexed by the whisper kid, but finally she looks straight in a static camera while she sings her ode to love, she expresses her devotion to the subject by her self-chosen verbal communication;
  • *her body almost does not move, we only see a severe, sometimes frightened, sometimes completely desperate-for-love face expression.
  • Serena''', a human female mortal, addresses herself indirectly to the imaginary love-god.
  • *she communicates her devotion to the subject by physical expression;
  • *she dances, using a whole spectrum of facial and body statements, interrupted with spasmodic blitzes of short falling moves and/or like electric shocks, like face and body are crying of pain and uncontrolled passion originated by the subject.

Credits Production

Cast
Crew

Soundtrack

Music production:

The Accacha Chronicles 3rd part, Amor Aeternus - Hymns of Love, Nicholas Lens
Soloists
Recording and mixing