Knaldemand’s Dream
A few weeks ago I bought a horse head mask from Amazon. I took couple of photos of myself with the mask on and posted them on my Tumblr blog and Facebook wall. My friends liked the mask and proclaimed getting nightmares from it. One of them, Gísli Dúa, called me and said he loved the mask and asked me if I were interested in creating something around that masked character. I told him that I would love to create something so we decided to go and wrote down some ideas about this character, how he came to being, what he likes and so on.
Two weeks later we decided to go to Viborg and shoot a stop motion video about this man horse. So we got a car, a couple of friends to help and a model to also act in the video. We also got permission to shoot at my Uncle’s farm.
So on a cold Sunday we all went to Viborg, or I went to Viborg, the other guys were already there. I had been partying the whole night before so I was running on Red Bull and the fact that I was still drunk. This was going to be interesting.
Shooting started at Alex’s apartment were I was supposed to wake up next to the girl. She had picked me up the night before and when she woke up she wasn’t very happy about the fact that I had a horse head. So I go to the bathroom and then take a shower before getting dressed. This was also the first time being nude on camera. I wasn’t really stressed about that though but I was a little bit stressed about getting a boner in front of the girl. Thankfully I can’t really see out of the mask so that helped.
After that scene we drove to the farm. The idea being that she was taking me to the farm to ride me because I was a horse.
Then we went back to the apartment and shot the second wake up scene. The first one and the girl being a dream. There I wake up on my own, not nude, but my clothes are on the middle of the street and dirty from being ridden in the dream I just had.
After that we walked around Viborg, shot some footage of me horsing around, eating grass and leaves, thinking about taking the bus but instead deciding to go for a swim in a frozen lake.
Doing those shots was difficult because the mask limits my field of vision and also my hearing so I had to rely on my friends to tell if I was about to get hit by a bus, which almost happened.
The video ended with me going into a small water, which was very cold and half frozen over.
Then we went back to the apartment, imported the photos and I went back to Aarhus and slept for a day. Thankfully my teacher was sick so I didn’t need to go to school the next day.
Then Gísli did his magic and we got this video.
There are lot of unanswered questions in this video. Why is the man horse there? What is it going to do? Why did the girl pick it up? Was it a man horse when she picked him up or a horse? I honestly don’t know, we haven’t really thought much yet about the next videos. We have thought more about how the actual character is, how it behaves and so on. Because it has a horse head it behaves a lot like a horse but since it has a human body it can go to places where horses can’t get to. Inside offices, homes, malls and so on. So that will affect how we write the scripts and what kind of videos, and photos, we do about Knaldemand. There probably are some philosophical questions around this, and we might do videos about that too but in the meantime we are going to go for crazy, nude and a little psychedelic.
