Our mental world, this intellectual realm of our thoughts and ideas, also contains its own brakes, faults and distortions, and an abundance of ridiculous and comic contrasts. Laughter is a reflex, but unique in that it has no obvious biological purpose. His only job seems to be the relief of tension. Humor, however, can act as an adaptable ego defense system that allows people to perceive comic absurdity in more complex situations.
The duality that tragedy sees as a fatal contradiction in the nature of things, comedy sees as another example of the inconsistent reality with which everyone must live as well as possible. Kierkegaard (1846) says where there is life, there is contradiction. Where there is a contradiction, however, the comic is present. My practical work is an audio-visual attempt to explore humorous coping with tragic or catastrophic situations. The work is divided into three parts, three different constantly unpleasant situations, which I try to solve in terms of content and technique in a humorous, unencumbered way, which in certain aspects borders on the bizarre.
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