After years of silence Absolutely Free Festival (AFF) is back. Same concept, but thanks to new technologies, new ways of getting the word out. So they asked me to save a tree and roll a tape, and that’s what I did.

I visited 4 of the bands playing at AFF at their home or an other location that feels natural to them. Armed with 2 cheap videocams and a gorillapod I shot the bands presenting an accoustic version of one of their tracks, edited it all and the result .. is this:

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Most of my work at my internship at Muziekodroom has been in preparation of Play Festival, a 2-day showcase festival featuring a great number of smaller bands amongst some better known names. During the festival my job was to help manage the photographers and capture some of the action on tape myself. After 3 days (including the on-invite-only opening night/PIL-awards) I ended up with +10 hours of footage. A hell of a job to edit, but I did it. The result:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=risgbxERv98

From the website:
“ TOUR is creating a soundtrack for an imaginary road movie called E40. Following the European highway E40, with it’s 8000km one of the world’s longest highways, he creates songs for 12 cities in 8 countries on this highway. He travels from Calais in the north of France to Ridder near the Chinese border in Kazachstan.
Central thoughout the work will be man, on his way to a specific (travelling) or unspecific goal (wandering).
For each city, TOUR collaborates with a video artist and incorporates local folk elements into the music.”

Stijn Segers asked me to collaborate in this project and so, I just finished creating in- & outro and the Liège video for TOUR. I’m not posting the result here (yet?), since I’m leaving that for the premiere tonight at “Michaël Verheyden Invites” at the C-Mine in Genk (more info on Michaël’s website). I’ve seen the band playing and I must say it’s looking good (as well as the rest of the line-up for tonight). If you can’t make it tonight, keep an eye on www.tourbadour.com for new videos and updates.

On to the next one! (Which I expect to be some stop-motion that’s been laying around here for quite some time now …)

Stay tuned!

Update: Intro & Liège are now available at tourbadour.com and the E40-channel at Vimeo.

Finished these last week, due to bad weather the shoots had to be postponed a few times again and in the end the editing kinda got rushed. Starting this Wednesday you can watch for these at JIMtv, about 8 times a day.

Enjoy and feel free to leave a comment!

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Little video I made at the Circuit Big Bends first gig at muziekodroom, Hasselt (Belgium). Performance was quite nice! Check out their myspace here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM1A_taqDxs