Kadze – movie screening at club TAM

KADZE

directed by Ani Vaseva
Camera: Ivan Nikolov

starring Leonid Yovchev, Katrin Metodieva, Maria Panayotova, Emona Ilieva, Galin Popov, Boris Delchev, Ivan Nikolov, Mikhail Zhekunov, Michaela Lyutskanova, Boyan Manchev, Svetlana Yancheva and Pipi

editing: Ani Vaseva, Ivan Nikolov
consultant: Boyan Manchev
Sound design: Angel Simitchiev
Music: Kristof Pechanac
assistant director: Mikhail Zhekunov
postproduction: Ivan Nikolov
aerial photography: Pavel Gramatikov
costumes: Ani Vaseva, Darina Stoimenova
ceramics: Katrin Metodieva
Graphic design: Monika Vakarelova

“Kadze” takes motifs from the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, as well as images from Tatsumi Hijikata’s hypnotic essay “Kadze Daruma”. The film is the second part of a trilogy, the first part of which is “Daruma” (2021), and the third is forthcoming.

In this mythological plot turned inside out, Eurydice follows Orpheus and Orpheus follows the ghost of Eurydice, now irreversibly returned to the shadow realm. The time before and after the fatal sight have merged. The following is endless and without a horizon of expectation. The events surge, not in their clear reckoning, but in the stacking, the offsetting, the interval, amidst the wind of the unexpected, amidst the elements of nature whose action is unsuspected and overwhelming. The event is where what is appears as what never was and never suspected to be.

“Kadze” is another name for the search for the impossible.