Laurie and Lou

New York, seventies. Underground, punk and new wave, the Factory, leather jackets, heroin, hedonism. And: Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed. She an avant-garde interdisciplinary genius, he the enfant terrible of rock ’n’ roll. She niche, he popular. She still alive, he no longer. She: O Superman. He: Walk on the Wild Side. Both iconic and each in their own way challenging, stubborn, loud, sensitive, and mysterious. And ultimately lovers. He is Mitch Van Landeghem, she is Carine van Bruggen. They work together, live together, and compete with each other. They are jealous, obsessed, bring out the best and the worst in each other. They are provocative, and yet kind. They want to make beautiful things and break beautiful things. They lie awake, surrender, love in a life full of art, and make art in a life full of self-mythologizing. So they are actually exactly like Laurie en Lou. Laurie & Lou is a duet between two young makers and a pseudo-musical portrait of two icons. But above all, it is a wild clusterfuck of those four personalities – an equally imagined as well-meant attempt to land together. Because we are crashing, but we are doing it together. Oh-oh.