“NOPEUSSOKEUS – SPEED BLINDENESS” WHS - KALLE HAKKARAINEN - Finland
Technique: Objects, video, magic, dance For audiences over: M/10 Time: 35 min. Language: Without words
Design, Direction, performer: Kalle Hakkarainen Music and sound design: Samuli Kosminen Lighting design: Meri Ekola, Ainu PalmuText: Harry Salmenniemi Choreography adviser: Jyrki Karttunen Costume: Mila Moisio, Kaisa Rissanen Properties: Kalle Hakkarainen, Juha Pakarinen, Timo Weman Programming and projection design: Kalle Hakkarainen High-speed filming: Teemu Liakka Photographs: Petri Virtanen
“Nopeussokeus” is a groundbreaking solo performance depicting the long seconds when a body and a machine collide. It seeks interfaces between cinema and stage magic by creating on a theater stage scenes, that we are accustomed to seeing only in still pictures or in a film in slow motion. Speed Blindness gives the viewer a new perspective on how magic tricks and magic in general are performed and creates a hypnotic tension with its mixture of magic and visual arts. “Nopeussokeus” is new magic.
“Nopeussokeus” somehow brings to mind the twisted world of David Lynch. It is an atmospheric piece with virtual driving in a car, struggling to stay awake. Trees, houses, fields – and time flash by. All the time the potential collision, crash, danger and death can be sensed in the air. The strong sound universe was born from the pen of Samuli Kosminen.
“The atmosphere of both the solo performances seen in Kiasma theatre [Nopeussokeus – Speed Blindeness and Mortimer] is rather dark and melancholic. The world is twisted and everything will end in death sooner or later, more or less violently.
While waiting one can even stretch time and explore the last seconds before a car crash caused by falling asleep, like Hakkarainen does in his performance Nopeussokeus. The keyword is deceleration, which allows the blood veins of a decomposing body to be exhibited as red cable, with which Hakkarainen realizes the amazing illusion of the oeuvre.Skillfulness and precise timing is required also in the performance’s driving scenes, in which the video and Hakkarainen’s live movements alternate…
Ciclo: FIMFA Lx11 – International Festival of Puppetry and Animated Forms