Titles

Film titles for an experimental documentary by Michal Kosakowski.

“The slogan ‘Holy War’ returns to cosmopolitan cities and brings with it, an entirely postmodern twist. The film opens with the sawing of a huge fir tree which escalates into a chainsaw massacre of thundering machinery. While witnessing the consumption mania of pre-Christmas preparations, we are ironically reminded of the mobilisation of forces at war. The adrenalin rush the ‘Christmas spirit’ initiates is charged by the illuminated advertisements ornamenting the shop windows. The closing hours of Christmas Eve sets an atmosphere of threatening silence before the storm. The deserted streets that are only inhabited by the residue of consumerism, fade into the epiphanic finale of the New Year’s celebration on the 31st of December, at Vienna’s Stephansplatz.” (Michal Kosakowski)

Client: Michal Kosakowski (1999)
Concept, design: Rafal Kosakowski
Animation: Rafal Kosakowski, Tom Hobbs