KALOPSIA

KALOPSIA. The delusion of things being more beautiful than they are.

"There is a determination in their movement which is quite different from the expression of ordinary curiosity. It seems as though the movement of some of them transmits itself to the others. But that is not all; they have a goal which is there before they can find words for it. This goal is the blackest spot where most people are gathered." (Crowds and Power, Elias Canetti, 1960)

  • M. Kardinal
    Director
    SILENCERS, TSCHAIKA
  • M. Kardinal
    Producer
    SILENCERS, TSCHAIKA
  • Monocube
    Music
    The Rituals, Substratum
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 16 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    November 8, 2018
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • L'Ososphère
    Strasbourg
    France
    September 23, 2022
    French Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 18th Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF)
    Athens
    Greece
    May 25, 2022
    Greek Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Randfilmfest
    Kassel
    Germany
    September 21, 2019
    German Premiere
    Nomination Rand-Award
  • Unseen Festival
    Denver, Colorado
    United States
    September 28, 2019
    Official Selection
  • 14th Montreal Underground Film Festival (MUFF)
    Montreal, Quebec
    Canada
    May 24, 2019
    Canadian Premiere
    Nomination jury prize
  • Hazel Eye Film Festival (HEFF)
    Nashville, Tennessee
    United States
    April 30, 2019
    Official Selection
  • Revolutions per Minute Film Festival (RPM)
    Boston
    United States
    February 3, 2019
    Premiere
    Official Selection
Director Biography - M. Kardinal

M. Kardinal is a visual artist based in Germany. Her work has been exhibited and screened in national and international exhibitions and film screenings including L'Ososphère, “Parcours Artistique,” Strasbourg (FR, 2022), 18th Athens Digital Arts Festival: FutuRetro (GR, 2022), Off Europa: MANöVER Meisterstücke (DE, 2021), Vorspiel / transmediale & CTM (DE, 2020 & 2018), 14th Montreal Underground Film Festival (CA, 2019), Revolutions per Minute Film Festival (US, 2019), Bideodromo International Experimental Film and Video Festival (ES, 2018), Another Experiment by Women Film Festival (US, 2018 & 2013), L'Ososphère (FR, 2017), Wellington Underground Film Festival (NZ, 2016), Festival Alto Vicentino (IT, 2014), SI FEST#OFF (IT, 2013), International Short Film Festival Detmold (DE, 2013).

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Director Statement

KALOPSIA combines different mass movements of the 20th century with contemporary mass psychological contexts, taking into account the philosophical work Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti, in which he investigated the dynamics of crowds and the question of how crowds obey the power of rulers.

For KALOPSIA I worked with an obsolete video technique. It is based on found footage which I manipulated analogue. For the analogue processing, I used a modified video-processor from the 1990s and altered the images in real-time. After the real-time image processing is done and the found footage is released from its original content and form, I assembled the processed material to new sequences of moving images.