Kyrie eleison   2005

a Zingend Oog production
Image  Mendel Hardeman
Music  Moni Myrthidia, Kythira, Greece
cast  Brice Soniano
       Rianne Berendsen
Duration  3'55"
Original Format  video, variable (DV-PAL and NTSC) (4:3, 16:9)



Two renaissance Sixtine-Chapel angels are not listening to the prayers, but instead prefer to escape their divinity and dive into bodily pleasures. Man and woman, they decide to become one in the flesh in a quite peculiar and unsettling way, while in the background an orthodox priest begs forgiveness for the sins of the world.
Made through a scanning process of a rotating film set.



screening history
14 & 15.04.06, GROND////BEGANE, Den Haag
5.05.06, ARTION Film Festival, Naoussa, Greece
20.05.06, Bochum International Video Festival, Germany
21.05.06, VIS in Tirol, Innsbruck, Austria
21.05 - 01.06.06 (daily), Kinowelt Annenhof, Graz, Austria
26.05.06, VIS - Vienna Independent Shorts, Austria
5 - 7.08.06, Open Cinema Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia
6.08.06, Portobello Film Festival, London, UK
14.08 - 5.10.06, Nederlands Online Film Festival,   www.noff.nl
17.08.06, OFFON European Film Week, Warsaw, Poland
5.10.06, Asolo Art Film Festival, Asolo, Italy
12.10.06, Sopot Film Festival, Poland
13.10.06, Girona Film Festival, Spain
26.10.06, Fano International Film Festival, Italy
10.11.06, Microcine Fest, Baltimore (MD), USA
19.11.06, 16a Semana de Cine Experimental de Madrid, Spain
1 - 3.12.06, Cinema al Salone, Venice, Italy

TV broadcast
13.07.06, OKTO TV, Vienna, Austria








◊ Caress

◊ Kyrie Eleison

◊ EXODUS

◊ a Tree for Glenn Gould

◊ A Man with a Cross

◊ Via Crucis

◊ The Cup

◊ Epilogue to Orpheus

◊ Harpsichorpheus

◊ Sysif's Song

◊ Dark Blue Horizon

◊ Times and Tides

◊ Unholy Vessels

◊ INDICTUS

◊ HAP

◊ 7 short attempts to
    write a piece for violin

◊ Reveal thyself Alighieri

◊ Last days of a cross

◊ A Última Quimera

research
◊ the Singing Camera

collaborations
◊ Het Dierenparadijs

◊ Tattooed Tongues

◊ Slowly turning narrative

◊ Planecrash

◊ A View on Beauty
Mendel Hardeman archive 1999-2006
singing eye