SPEED BLINDNESS

Circus Theater | WHS group, Finland.

The speed blindness and the motion blindness occur in the dreadful moments of the human body and a machine colliding in a car accident. The short moments are detailed and elongated in to a spectacular journey of consciousness, perpetuating the blink of an eye between life and death.

Kalle Hakkarainen is a magician and a visual artist from Helsinki. In his work he examines

The new kinds of expression possibilities provided by video image and its capacities related to time and space. He has studied visual arts in The Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. As a magician Hakkarainen has specialized in developing new tricks and new kinds of magic.

His inventions have been published in the most important professional magic publications such as the MAGIC-Magazine. In 2000 he won third price in the world championships of magic (FISM) in the Inventions category. In addition to his work as a magician,

Hakkarainen has worked as a director, editor and animator in TV programs, commercials and short films.

Design, direction, performance: Kalle Hakkarainen

Music and sound design: Samuli Kosminen

Lighting design: Meri Ekola

Text: Harry Salmenniemi

Choreographic 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

Lightning: Meri Ekola / Ainu Palmu / Jere Moenkkoenen

Duration: 35 minutes.