During Winter 2011/2012, Amatorski created a special live show
for which they wrote original music to accompany "Impatience",
the film directed in 1928 by Charles Dekeukeleire, an unsung hero of early experimental cinema.

Influenced by the ideas of Futurist and Dadaist artists, Dekeukeleire wanted to create 'pure cinema'.
He was only 23 when he directed "Impatience", his second film,
which some international film historians place on the same level as Luis Buñuel's Un chien andalou.
The film is built around four series of images: 'a motorbike, a woman, a mountain and abstract blocks'.
There is no linear storyline, yet the treatment and combination of the elements (human, machine, nature, speed, shapes)
is eerily poetic and echoes the works of modernist painters, musicians and writers of that period.

Amatorski wrote a magnificent new soundtrack for the film,
a continuous, 36-minute piece which includes abstract sonic textures as well as soaring, enchanting melodies.
The show (which was performed on a 30-date theatre tour) consisted of a screening of the movie
with a simultaneous live performance of the soundtrack.

Amatorski are now delighted to release "Impatience",
a great final stage to round off what has already been an amazing year 2013,
which saw the international release of their debut album "TBC",
the launch of their award-winning interactive online project "Deleting Borders",
the release of a remix album ("re:tbc"), and a series of shows around Europe
which garnered them an increasing number of devoted followers.

 

This limited-edition DVD, includes

1. Amatorski's live performance of the soundtrack at the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels

2. The original 1928 film, accompanied by the soundtrack

3. A coupon with a unique code for downloading the audio soundtrack

 

Press quotes on Amatorski

 "The best Belgian act around at the moment" (The Guardian, UK)

 "Perfection on all fronts" (OOR, NL)

 "Extremely classy, absolutely delicious atmospheric pop…
in the footsteps of Portishead & Sparklehorse…
spinning bewitching anthems around Inne Eysermans' magnetic voice (Les Inrockuptibles, FR)

 "Oscillates between rock & electronica, between the soft clink of ice crystals and the crash of avalanches" (Der Spiegel, DE)