a short film by TJADER-KNIGHT inc.

running time 5min 31sec – colour – stereo

Caustically Happy relates to the genre of ’black comedy’ nevertheless acting through intensely minimal settings while bringing you to the close-up of action.

” … the integrity of the close-up in this respect is the idea that it presents to us a partial object, detached fom a set or torn away from a set of which it would form part. … But in fact the close-up, the close-up of a face has nothing to do with a partial object. … the close-up does not tear away its object from a set of which it would form part, of which it would be a part, but on the contrary it abstracts it from all spatio-temporal co-ordinates, that is to say it raises it to the state of Entity. The close-up is not an enlargement and, if it implies a change of dimension, this is an absolute change; a mutation of movement which ceases to be translation in order to become expression.”
Gilles Deleuze: Cinema I The Movement-Image

mouth

mouths

in a singularity of two becoming one signified by being out of the ordinary, not distortion
T-K inc.

”They can include a background, notably in the case of depth of field. But, in all these cases, the close-up retains the same power to tear the image away from spatio-temporal co-ordinates in order to call forth the pure affect as the expressed. … the quality becomes the ’quale’ of an object, power becomes action or passion, affect becomes sensation … in which power-qualities become ’forces’, that is to say are actualised in particular states of things, determinate space-times … these are qualities of powers considered for themselves, without reference to anything else, independently of any question of their actualisation … quality or power is potentiality considered for itself as expressed … these functions of the face presuppose the reality of a state of things where people act and perceive.”
Gilles Deleuze: Cinema I The Movement-Image

Premiere:
2004 Avanto-Festival Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki, Finland.

Screenings:
2006 View06 Korjaamo, Helsinki, Finland.
2005 EXPERIMENTA 2005 Mumbai, New Delhi, India.
2004 Centras4 National M.K.Ciurlionis Art Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Fluid Image Zone I.P. Grenoble, France.
Electrohype Pineapple event, Malmö, Sweden.
MAD: Digital Liberation Movement Barcelona, Spain.
Museums night Museum-Kunst-Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Kuningas-Klubi Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland.
Tagawa International Short-film Matsuri #3 Tagawa City,
Fukuoka-Ken, Kyushu, Japan.

produced by Boring Films
financially supported by
AVEK / Milla Moilanen