Difficult is an all female music band. Their musical collaboration combines absurd lyrics with punk sensibility and improvisation, a difficult process of unlearning and transcending genres. In this film we are immersed into their musical experimentation within the safe space of the rehearsal studio.


The footages mainly consist of the bands developing process of composing songs. The songs are developped through improvisation and jamming, the lyrics are glimpses of their personal communal experiences. Focusing on their musical process unfolding in front of the camera, the viewer is invited to look at a vulnerable but generative situation. Non-verbal communication, musical elements, empathy and affect are intertwined, revealing many complexities that the resulting music track won’t ever expose.

Difficult

HD video, 46'46", 2021

With: Tracy Hanna, Eothen Stearn and Kari Robertson
Color grading: Marta Hryniuk

Supported by Stichting Niemeijer Fonds

article by Persis Bekkering Frozen in the before the yes