NIGHTWALKING

Filmmaker's note

It was the summer of 2004 that composer/theatre maker André Arends first visited Bartiméus Doorn in The Netherlands. A place where more than 350 people live with a visual and mental disability. A lot of them are also audible and physical disabled and are barely able to communicate with the outside world. The movements and expression forms were astonishing. These reactions consist of movements with and positions of the body (p.e. the hands) having an unique and for us a - technically spoken - complicated form. They are obviously not artificial but pure and are coming from the inside. The inhabitants of Bartiméus Doorn express their selves physically. They communicate with their own body language. The movements are combined with facial expressions or use of their own voice. Blind people haven't seen their own movements and those of others ever. The communication forms are not preconditioned like we - the not disabled people - use them. André wanted to show the world these virtuoso movements.