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As a prelude to Mika Rantonen's film 'And White Was The Night', this short film explores the memory and philosophy of an alcoholic who revisits his romantic history and destructive solitude. NeoKitsch - the online multi-arts centre, is proud to present Danny Hahn's haunting, semi-autobiographical story, shot by himself as [more]
Tenderly - a romantic thriller feature film by Danny Hahn
Danny Hahn and the NeoKitsch team have produced an intense 2 minute trailer to promote the release of Danny's new feature romantic thriller screenplay, 'Tenderly'.
When a local workman is hired to paint a mysterious house for a young couple, he is struck by a haunting tenaciousness for the home, and [more]
Playing The World into Existence - Extra Science - Chapter 18
Extra Science
‘Tradition - the name generally given to widely accepted error.’[1]
Einstein’s relativity theory breaks with tradition - it breaks with two hundred years of Newton. Space and time, from now on, are relative, and not, as Newton assumed, absolute. But Newton also broke with tradition when he discovered his celebrated [more]
Playing the World into Existence - A Leibnizian Universe? - Chapter 22
A Leibnizian Universe?
But when time is no more, what then? We are creatures of time. And time is linked to space. But how can we conceive a world without time and space - a nunc stans without extension, but still unendingly large and filled with boundless time?
This takes us to [more]
Playing the World into Existence - Matter and Memory - Chapter 21
Matter and Memory
"Imagine someone who, when woken suddenly from divine distraction and self-absorption by the twelve loud strokes of the noon bell, asks himself: ‘What time is it?’ In much the same way, we rub our ears after the fact and ask in complete surprise and embarrassment: ‘What was that [more]
Playing the World into Existence - Chained chaos, broken forms - Chapter 20
Chaos within creativity
Chaos becomes order, and order turns into chaos. This is creativity. You can start with chaos: the chaos of random thoughts, or the chaos of experiences, feelings and passions. But however chaotic - once you pin them down, your experiences gel into something that can be identified as [more]
Playing the World into Existence - The Aleph - Chapter 19
Back to the future…again
…..because in one corner of the cellar there was an Aleph. He explained that an Aleph is one of the points in space that contain all points. ‘It is right under the dining room, in the cellar,’ he explained.
Jorge-Luis Borges ‘The Aleph’
How true is our worldview in [more]
Danny's sketchbooks demonstrate a very different style to that of his oil paintings. While thick layers of paint and blending of colours are used on his canvas in an abstract expressionistic way, the sketchbooks reveal a keen sense of structure and a fascination for the human figure.
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Tenderly - A screenplay by Danny Hahn
When a local workman is hired to paint a mysterious house for a young couple, he is struck by a haunting tenaciousness for the home, and struggles with an overwhelming sexual awakening which ultimately leads to psychological horrors and violent outbursts.
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Playing the World into Existence - God is Gay - Chapter 17
Observations
From the eye to the canvas, and from here via mysterious lines, squiggles and grooves back to the imagination of the artist. Is this the creative act? Maybe - but there is another dimension to it. Art requires to be acknowledged. But how arbitrary is this kind of acknowledgement that [more]
Playing the World into Existence - The Sunflowers - Chapter 16
The Travels of the Sunflowers and the Weeping Clown
But now imagine the following. We know that Vincent Van Gogh sold only one painting in his lifetime. Knowing this, let our fantasy run riot and invent the following story: We assume that the painting is the famous ‘Sunflowers’, which can be [more]
Playing the World into Existence - A portent black squiggle - Chapter 15
The Surface
The journey, which is by now out of the hands of its creator, inches forward on something that can only be called a ‘surface’. But the word ‘surface’ gives us mixed feelings. We associate it with something negative, like superficial or lacking in depth. Yet, our journey through the [more]
Playing the World into Existence - Ink to Paper - Chapter 14
"It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds." Nietzsche.
Criticism
Not the possession of Truth, but the ‘sincere exertion to get to the Truth’, defines art and science. Here lies the ultimate difference between the mystic [more]
Landscape oil paintings by Danny Hahn
Danny's landscape paintings are perhaps an example of his most extreme expression of abstract form, and certainly his thickest use of paint.
Where cityscapes tend to be angular and cubist in form, landscapes tend to reveal to Danny an unending challenge of texture, layer, perspective and free hand flow. The result is [more]
And White Was The Night - A feature film by Mika Rantonen
And White Was The Night is a film about a man nostalgic for his childhood traumas.
On a trip to Finland, with 2 kilos of cocaine inside his stomach, Antonio finds himself held at gunpoint over an open grave. In a foreign country with no money, passport, or anyone to turn [more]