Walter Verdin
- Editor
- Director
- Camera and Electrical Department
Walter Verdin (°1953, Belgium) is a video composer who has worked
all kinds of disciplines throughout the years (with music, theatre,
dance, film, video art, musical theatre, documentaries, ...)
He has a rich curriculum with numerous projects with famous artists
as Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Steve Paxton, Wim Vandekeybus,
Guy Cassiers,... and has founded several associations, such as
Videolepsia in which he now produces his own artistic work.
He created his first video in 1978. Videorhythmics (1984) was his
first video concert: live music on the beat of rhythmically edited single
screen videos. It would become his 'trademark'.
Since his first trip to Africa in 1993, he created a great deal of
projects with African artists. After XAfrika, a video and music project
about Mandinka music, he started with a series of workshops,
brought artists from all kinds of disciplines and cultures together
under the name Trancemediamix and created with Matchume
Zango the Timbila Tracks project. Timbila music will again be the
starting point for a new audio-visual concert Mgodo Tracks, creation
in 2019.
All his work is multidisciplinary. The interaction between video, dance
and music, moving image and sound, forms the constant topic in his
work.