Das eigensinnige Kind (Raison)

This song was written as a prologue to the Ravel opera L’enfant et les sortilèges (The Child and the Spells), whose libretto was written by the French author Colette, a very early feminist, as a surreal anti-authoritarian fantasy. With the actor Fabian Hinrichs, himself a great doubting loner, we have tried to make a swaying one-take clip combining an edgy, childish bid for freedom and its ambivalent (embarrassing?) transgression.