Earlier this year, Matthijs refined the quadrophonic mix for Daan Kouijzer’s and Yentl Bakker’s video installation Le Palace. The film revisits the iconic 1980s Parisian nightclub of the 1980s, known as a stronghold of creativity, freedom, and self-expression. In today’s world this vision of Le Palace feels increasingly utopian. Kouijzer’s and Bakker’s version of Le Palace is a contemporary, abstract reinterpretation—focusing on the fight for existence and the right to express.

Matthijs’s sound design, mix and music (courtesy of his Nachtvocht collective) place the film in a daydream-like space. For the Dutch Film Festival (NFF), the installation was reworked to a short film in a new edit. MOST adapted the soundmix to a surround cinema mix.

Credits

Director • Daan Kouijzer
Creative Director • Yentl Bakker
Producers • Daan Kouijzer, Yentl Bakker, Dwayne Henn
Director of Photography • Sander Pieters
Manifesto • Anouk Harkmans
Music • The New Orland, Nachtvocht
Casting • Iris Heusschen
Research • Yentl Bakker
Editor • Daan Kouijzer
Colorist • Sander Pieters
VFX • Rogier Mulder
Sound Design • Daan Kouijzer, Matthijs Koster
Voice-over • Iris Heusschen
Audio mix • Matthijs Koster