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KNIGHT OF FORM

KNIGHT OF FORM
experimental film, 11:45 min, colour, no sound, Karin Hoerler 2019
this video was created exclusively using stop-motion techniques

The film is my interpretation of Cervantes' novel about the adventures of Don Quixote.
I tell the story of Don Quixote: of his house in the village in the middle of nowhere, of him as a reading roller skater, continuing to read his chivalric novels at night, his horse Rosinante, his encounter with Dulcinea, how he is knighted at the inn, escorted by noblewomen, how he fights travelers, lies down injured, his books are burned, he persuades Sancho Panza and experiences the adventure with the windmill giants with him and they both go out into the world.
The source material of the collages for the film Knight OF Form is plastic waste, packaging of products that we dispose of unnoticed, as well as my own landscape photographs, landscapes with people, animals, plants and things in which I let Don Quixote experience his adventures.
This film allows several points of view. On the first simple level, he recounts the adventures of Don Quixote:
The world in whichI let Don Quixote have his adventures are subjects to romanticization. We wish for small mediveal villages with happy hand-milked cows and meadows in front of houses in charming, intact nature, just as Don Quijote wishes for reality as an idealized world of knights and believes in this illusion. This difference between illusion and reality leads to a lot of argument and suffering, but is not devoid of comedy.
On a second level, this film is about two-dimensional forms of representation of the three-dimensional world in which we live. The very differently depicted landscapes say something about our view of the world and how the respective view can change or cement our social reality.

  • Karin HOERLER
    Director
  • Karin HOERLER
    Writer
  • Karin HOERLER
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    11 minutes 45 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 14, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    20,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Shooting Format:
    animation: .jpg
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • ARTIST / DON QUIXOTE, Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg im KunstLANDing
    Aschaffenburg
    Germany
    July 21, 2019
  • ARTIST / DON QUIXOTE, Kunstverein Familie Montez
    Frankfurt/Main
    Germany
    September 21, 2019
  • The Differnet Vision, Cultural NGO
    Stara Zagora
    Bulgaria
    September 28, 2019
  • Könnte aber doch / Could be, Württembergischer Kunstverein
    Stuttgart
    Germany
    August 24, 2019
  • suivez les GALETS ROUGES
    Plaissan
    France
    March 23, 2024
Distribution Information
  • Karin HOERLER
    Distributor
    Country: France
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Karin HOERLER

Karin Hoerler born in Frankfurt am Main/Germany
1981-87 Art Studies, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main/Germany, Master-Student of Filmmaking of Professor Peter Kubelka
1988 Art/Film Studies at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago/USA
1990+94 Teaching Assignments, Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach am Main/Germany

Awards and Scholarships (selection)
2022 ifa/Germany, Exhibition Funding for Iran
2008-17 Studio-Scholarship in Kunsthaus Wiesbaden/Germany
1996 Art-Price of Frankfurter Sparkasse/Germany for ...with Erna Hoerler (16mm film)
1992 Scholarship of Land Hessen/Germany, Residence for Studies in Olevano Romano/Italy
1986 Award for Fine Arts of the Federal Ministry for Education and Science of Germany

Screenings (selection)
2025 Kerala Short Film Festival, Kochi/India
2024 Goa Short Film Festival, Panaji/Indien
2024 TimesUpSet, Artfestival, Atelier Rafi, Frankfurt am Main/Germany
2024 Galets Rouges, Plaissan/France
2023 EntrelacFlechtwerk, Espace des Dominicains, Clermont l'Hérault/France
2023 The Other is Another, Phare de la Méditerranée, Palavas-les-Flots/France
2022 50 Years 1822 Forum, Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt am Main/Germany
2022 of War and Idyll with Ahmad Rafi, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran/Iran; Aknoon Art Gallery, Isfahan/Iran
2021 De-Composition No 26, Alte Dorfkirche Hausen/Germany
2019 Artist/Don Quijote, Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg/Germany; Kunstverein Familie Montez,
Frankfurt am Main/Germany; Cultural NGO Stara Zagora/Bulgaria
2019 Könnte aber doch, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart/Germany
2018 Filmfestival Springcleaning, Frankfurt am Main/Germany
2015 Germany - Fatherland, Weißfrauen Diakoniekirche, Frankfurt am Main/Germany
2014 Filmmuseum Albertina, Wien/Austria
2014 Alle Tage wieder, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main/Germany
2010 von Krieg und Idylle mit Ahmad Rafi, Ahmad Rafi, Kunstverein Bellevue-Saal, Wiesbaden/Germany
2009 Father of all Things - Mother of all Suffering, Kunsthaus, Wiesbaden/Germany
2008 Rhythm, Künstlerverein Walkmühle + Filmbühne Caligari, Wiesbaden/Germany
2008 1.442.666 Steps, Dartington College of Arts/UK
2007 3 x ringing, Mainz/Germany
2006 Historisches Museum, DrKW, Dresdner Bank im Ramen der LUMINALE, Frankfurt am Main/Germany
2005 UnOrt, Atelier Rafi, Frankfurt am Main/Germany
2003 Filmkunsthaus Babylon, Berlin/Germany
2002 Galerie am Fachfeld, Frankfurt am Main/Germany
2001 Frankfurter Kreuz, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main/Germany
2000 Show (&) Tell, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main/Germany
1997 Filmweek with Experimentalfilms, Frankfurt am Main/Germany
1995 Sequenz XI, Frankfurt/Main
1994 Films of Artists of Frankfurt, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main/Germany
1994 Depot, Art and Discussion, Filmnight, Wien/Austria
1993 Public Lessons, Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Wien/Austria
1992 Independent Films from Frankfurt, Film Center, Chicago/USA
1992 EXpanded Screen - Breitenstein mit Hoerler, Kels, Kren, Kommunales Kino, Frankfurt am Main/Germany
1992 apt Gallery, Tokio/Japan
1991 Sequenz III, Video-Compilation, WOM im Hertie-Haus, Frankfurt/Main am Main/Germany
1991 Films of Artists of Amsterdam and Frankfurt, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel/Swiss
1991 Independent Films of Frankfurt, Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Wien/Austria
1990 Feminism and Media, Symposium des Instituts für Neue Medien, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main/Germany
1990 Frankfurter Avantgardefilm 1980-1989 in 10 bundesdeutschen Städten
1989 Filmfilm Frankfurt, Kommunales Kino, Frankfurt am Main/Germany
1988 Festival of Chicago’s International Film & Video, Chicago Filmmakers, USA
1988 The Art of the Short Film, Saint Louis Gallery of Contemporary Art, USA
1987 Werkstattkino mal seh‘n, Frankfurt am Main/Germany
1987 Onion City Film Festival, Sonderprogramm, Chicago/USA

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