DEMO

DEMO
DEMO (still) - A Two Dogs Company
  • DEMO is Kris Verdonck's first film.

    The starting point for this film project is the performance UNTITLED, a show by Kris Verdonck / A Two Dogs Company that premiered at the Kaaitheater in 2014. DEMO follows the genre of silent film, slapstick, musical and cartoons, as well as the style of the numerous uploads on YouTube and other social media.

    DEMO is a social and absurdist portrait of Bee, an artist looking for work. Bee is homeless, lives under a bridge in the Brussels Canal Zone and is dressed as a mascot.  He makes videos of himself with his smartphone and hopes to one day find an audience. Short acts interrupt his existential boredom.

    In DEMO, we follow Bee's path and his stunts for several days and nights. Bee lives in a harsh reality and - just because of that - also in his imagination, in his madness and hallucinations. His tricks are aimless and nonsensical, and as the days progress his existence begins to weigh on him. His surroundings - a clash of banks, art institutions, homeless people, refugees, expensive apartments and drug addicts - are indifferent. He is part of the scenery that nevertheless defines him and in which he simultaneously disappears. The enthusiasm with which he tries to entertain becomes increasingly extreme, wry and dangerous, to the point of being suicidal. Suicide is unfortunately not an option, cartoon characters don't die, they rise again and again.

    DEMO
    DEMO (still) - A Two Dogs Company
    DEMO
    DEMO (still) - A Two Dogs Company

Credits

Concept and Direction: Kris Verdonck
Dramaturgy: Kristof van Baarle
Performance: Marc Iglesias
Musician: Michael Schmid
Costumes: An Breugelmans, Eefje Wijnings, Karolien Nuyttens, Stephanie Becquet
Camera: Vincent Pinckaers
Production manager: Erik Lambert
Production: A Two Dogs Company
Coproduction : Quetzalcoatl, Shelterprod
With the support of: VAF - Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds, Tax shelter incentive of the Belgian federal government