dianthus

Director: Karø Goldt    → show biography   ← hide biography

Biography: Karø Goldt, born in 1967 in Günzburg. 1998 Graduation from the School for Artistic Photography, Vienna. 2000 Grant from the BKA Vienna for the Cité des Arts, Paris. 2003 Grant from the BKA Vienna for New York. 2004 AIR 05 grant from the Medienturm, Graz and Museumsquartier, Vienna. 2005 Project grant from the BKA Vienna for unilateral. Project grant from the Berlin Senate for BOUQUET and floral. Works in public collections: K21, Düsseldorf; Anker Versicherung, Vienna; NBK, Berlin; Medienturm, Graz; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Since 1998, participation in numerous exhibitions and festival screenings. website: www.karoegoldt.de

Country: Germany

Year: 2007

Synopsis: The plant „dianthus“ is a carnation. In this piece, as in the others, the starting point were still-life paintings of flowers, combined with the extreme, unbelievable und extraordinary music of Markus Popp / oval. I'll briefly summarise the meaning of the blossom: Dianthus developed from the flower of Zeus („dios anthos“) to a christian passion flower. It symbolised the passion of Christ, as it was found that the shape of the leaves resembled the nails that were used in the cruxifiction. The portrait-painters of the Renaissance era used it as a passion flower in a different sense of the word: it became the sign of the engaged and the soon-to-be engaged. In the 1970's, dianthus became the symbol of the Portugese „Revolution of the Carnations“ and remained the flower of the socialist movement. What's important for my film is the meaning of „passion“, be it in the sense of ordeal or of fervor. (Karø Goldt)

Language: without dialogue

Tags: Experimental film