Cantata Profana is a 6-screen video installation installed in a semicircle, recalling ancient amphitheatre architecture.
Each of the screens frames one individual musician during an unedited group performance.
The musicians, one from Kassel itself, the others from the United Kingdom, Norway, The Netherlands and the United States, are all vocalists in bands from hardcore, grindcore and death metal scenes.
Stokes and Gough worked with the vocalists to create a composition using traditional choral modes, such as European polyphony, layered with experimental techniques like staccato, noise and texture to present an immersive choral work.
Duration: 6 mins 48 secs
prod.: Mutter und Vater GmbH
dir: Matt Stokes
dop: Christopher Häring
Hanoi 2007“ Empty
dir.: Uwe Flade
flame: Christina Agapitou
dop: Christopher Häring
Something I Can Never Have
dir: How Knows
dop: Christopher Haering
edit: Bastian Ahrens
postproduction: Acht Frankfurt
Kino Teaser - Point Of View
dir: Arne Jysch
dop: Christopher Haering
Sunny
dir: How Knows
dop: Christopher Haerng
edit: Bastian Ahrens
postproduction: Acht Frankfurt
Running Time: 15 min