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Kardinal

1967 · 5 min

A brief, confrontational art provocation that feels like watching a ritual of bodily defilement, unsettling and hard to shake.

Overview: I set my sights on the human body and realized things, were moving at last, during my first material action, I soiled a female body with mud, paint, rubbish and paste, and tied it up in old rags and ropes dipped in mud. —Otto Mühl

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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
absurdstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: art
violence
identity
obsession
morality
Places: None
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: found footage
single location
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language none
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scales, 0 to 10
Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	5
Humour	1
Realism	6
Romance	0
Tension	5
Darkness	8
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	5

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Directed by: Otto Muehl
Runtime: 5 min
Country: Austria
Languages: No Language

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