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)
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M. KardinalDirectorSILENCERS, TSCHAIKA
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M. KardinalProducerSILENCERS, TSCHAIKA
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MonocubeMusicThe Rituals, Substratum
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Project Type:Experimental, Short
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Runtime:5 minutes 16 seconds
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Completion Date:November 8, 2018
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Country of Origin:Germany
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Aspect Ratio:4:3
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Film Color:Black & White
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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L'OsosphèreStrasbourg
France
September 23, 2022
French Premiere
Official Selection -
18th Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF)Athens
Greece
May 25, 2022
Greek Premiere
Official Selection -
RandfilmfestKassel
Germany
September 21, 2019
German Premiere
Nomination Rand-Award -
Unseen FestivalDenver, 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
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).
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.