KIRAC diary: tales of a KIRAC intern

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We've been experimenting a lot with other forms. Podcasty things, and now this sort of vloggy 'diary' structure.

I'm obsessed with the 'Episode' form, which demands a lot from the overall structure; a desire for clarity and complexity: it should be a rewatchable diamond that you can look at from different angles and moods. These things are great to make because they are very difficult and time consuming to make: making the film is a discovery in itself, and the viewer gets a crystallised version of that process. An Episode is very strict in that it only represents itself: it's not about documenting something or explaining something. Documentations and essayistic conversations between me and Kate are often the vantage point, but they only serve this 'higher' structure which is the Episode itself. There is a lot of baby-killing and there are many deleted scenes.

The other structures (like this diary) represent my need to document the process of the KIRAC platform: building the studio, setting up a more academy / symposium environment. Moving away from institutional critique to become some sort of institution ourselves. Letting go of my perfectionism a bit to give space to the other people in the KIRAC universe, such as the intern Sebastiaan Verbeeten who co-edited this Episode.

Let us know what you think in the comments and send an email to [email protected] if you are in (or close to) Amsterdam and want to intern with us. We are also looking for ideas to present films at film festivals and do a big post corona university and academy tour.

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Trailer Episode 18 https://vimeo.com/454350140
Trailer Episode 19 https://vimeo.com/468454644
Trailer Podcast 1 https://vimeo.com/454529846

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ABOUT KIRAC
KIRAC bounces into institutions, art dealers, artists, and other members of the cultural establishment, creating new artistic territory as they go. The recurring characters are living out their own cultural/mythological search for truth. Kirac is a loosely orchestrated, and meticulously assembled perspective on the different ideological and cultural frameworks that define our time. Every episode defines a specific mentally projected ‘problem’ and instead of solving the problem ideologically, Kirac ‘shows’ the labyrinths of thought and their institutionalised and sometimes enforced hierarchies.