Herra Ylppö

Kronos Kairos

Surreal journey through the melancholy of divorce and tinnitus

Kronos Kairos drags the viewer into a stark black-and-white world where loss and separation pulse with cosmic pain. Mira Luoti’s woman announces she has found another, and the abandoned man (Toni “Protoni” Järvinen) spirals into a limbo clouded by ringing ears and a fractured mind. His only companion becomes a hitman allergic to shellfish, and the absurd task of building a stripper pole becomes entangled with undoing past mistakes. Drawing from Herra Ylppö’s personal experiences and his music-video director’s eye, the film is a visual plunge into the shadowy corners of the mind and the sharp edges of existence.

Herra Ylppö’s directorial debut channels the legacies of Dalí and Buñuel. The dramatic Andalusian mountains are captured in striking black-and-white cinematography, where wandering characters exude a Don Quixote – like melancholy on a foreign planet. Floating spheres, fractured pipes, masks, and straps serve as visual metaphors for alienation and the chaos of the mind.

The title reflects two ancient Greek notions of time: Kronos, measurable time, and Kairos, qualitative, lived time. Kronos Kairos is a surreal, visually arresting journey through heartbreak, tinnitus, and the desperate search for equilibrium a work that Aki Kaurismäki immediately hailed as “a surrealist masterpiece.”

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