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Knight of Form
animation, 11:45 min colour, no sound, Karin Hoerler, 2019
this video was created exclusively using stop-motion techniques
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.
.his film allows several points of view.
On the first simple level, he recounts the adventures of Don Quixote:his house in
the village in the middle of nowhere, as a reading roller-skater, reading chivalric novels at night, his horse Rosinante, the encoun ter with Dulcinea, he is knighted in the inn escorted by noble damsels, fights travelers and lies injured, his books are burned, the persuasion of Sancho Panza, the adventure with the windmill giants - out into the world.
The world in whichI let Don Quixote have his adventures are subjects to romanti- cization. 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.
KUNSTZEITUNG article of
Dorothee Baer-Bogenschütz
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