JEUX D'ENFANTS // video, electronic soundtrack (2008)
In this originally silent home movie from the 1940s by Dutch amateur filmmaker Johann Hunningher, we see Liesbeth and Nel playing a piano four hands piece by Georges Bizet. I created an original soundtrack for it in 2008.
Nominated for the 2009 Gaudeamus Prize and the 2010 ISCM / IAMIC Young Composer Award.
PRESS
Frits van der Waa, de Volkskrant (13/09/09)
At the Bimhuis things took a truly unexpected turn with the showing of an old movie of two ladies playing the piano, for which Thomas Bensdorp created a new soundtrack in an equally hilarious and brilliant manner.
Jeannie Marsh, ISCM World New Music Magazine No. 20, 2010
The [ISCM World New Music Days 2010] began with an excellent curtain-raiser of two short films. In Jeux d’Enfants Thomas Bensdorp (Netherlands) created a witty and moving re-imagining of a home-movie of music-making from the 1940s. Replacing the sounds of the Debussy [sic] piano duet that the women on screen were playing, the new soundtrack took us to somewhere totally different, and yet strangely appropriate.