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Focus Finland |
Wednesday, Decembre 2th, 2015 / 8 pm
Institut Finlandais
Paris
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The Powder of Sympathy
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Tuomas A. Laitinen
Finland
2015 | 0:08:36
Diving deep into the often obscure global flow of materials, in this instance copper, The Powder of Sympathy sets in motion a frantic flow of images combined with feverish pounding, hissing and rattling sounds sourced from West Africa, the USA and China. The video is a one-channel version of Tuomas A. Laitinen’s four-channel video installation Conductor (2014). Accompanied by Jenna Sutela’s narrative script, the video tracks the mythical and chemical characteristics of copper.
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Oblivion |
O Blif Igen! |
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Marjo Levlin
Finland, California
2015 | 0:30:00
The film Oblivion - O Blif Igen tells about late 19th century migration from Finland to the United States. It is also a journey from the village of my youth, Malax, in Swedish-speaking Ostrobothnia, to California and Colorado. It is telling about dreams of a better life somewhere else, about memory and how very soon the history of ordinary people passes into oblivion… The past is so much like the present and contemporary immigration.
Between 1821 and 1929, a total of 350,000 people emigrated from Finland to the US. Among them, 1,600 were from Malax. Some of them were adventurers, but most left because they had no choice. Many immigrant Finns arrived in the United States at a time when the best lands had already been settled, and often ended up working in regions where work was hard and life was difficult. With its supply of European immigrants, the conquest of the American continent continued towards the west as railway lines were laid and cities grew; labour was in demand, and the conditions of workers varied.
Finns’ skill with the axe and their inventive method of felling gigantic trees uphill to prevent them from splitting were appreciated on the West Coast. By contrast, in some mining areas in the Rocky Mountains, Finns were discriminated against and even forbidden to work; one of the reasons cited was race.
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Sacre |
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Jaakko Pallasvuo, Anni Puolakka
Finland
2015 | 0:21:13
A cyber goth in her thirties makes videos, seeking freedom and the truth in a society obsessed with productivity and success.
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One |
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Juha Van Ingen
Finland
2015 | 0:07:45
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Minispectacles 9 x Solo, Duo, Trio, Quartet |
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Maarit Suomi-Vaananen
Finland
2014 | 0:09:00
Minispectacles is a series of one-minute films, cinematic haikus. 9 x Solo, Duo, Trio, Quartet portray children, the childish, the childless, twins, moms, the French, french fries, as well as boxes for litter and post. To be continued all the way to Part 100. Woman with pocket camera.
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The Vessel,
It’s All Gone Mushroom Shaped and Then to Dust |
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Henna-Riikka Halonen
Finland
2014 | 0:08:53
The fictional short film The Vessel (It's all gone Mushroom shaped and then to Dust)
(will be finished by 2014), shows an androgynous character's, (played by a transgender
model VJ Ruuska), journey and an eventual transformation in Modernist Lauttasaari water
tower, in Helsinki through cinematic means of sci-fi. The tower built in 1958, is currently empty and will be demolished in 2014. The main Character gets many faces and
the notion of time assumes a new meaning inside of the building. The physical bodily
being of a character and architectural shapes are being simultaneously deconstructed. In this the notion of journey in a space and individual subjectivity, become the
core of the project. They function as potential counter-narratives against the dominant
mantras, such as “There is no alternative,” which is associated with neo-liberal thinking.
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Parametronomicon |
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Pink Twins
Finland
2015 | 0:09:15
Parametronomicon presents a model of parametric virtual life. A biomechanic organism moves, multiplies and regenerates in an elaborate series of convulsive movements. Its life spans from simple formations to inevitable apocalyptic visions of an over-the-top visual orgy
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Attraction |
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Miia Rinne
Finland
2015 | 0:05:00
Transit presents documentary shots of New York are altered by camera movements, angles and framing. This builds up a new fictitious urban space, whose visual familiarity stems from the history of film. The theme of Transit revolves around the collective visual ideas and notions of the urban environment.
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in collaboration whit
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November 26 - December 6, 2015
The FISDN presents film secions focused on different countries and regions. This section intends to discover and explore different spaces and cultures with the aim to understand the specific regional, political and social circumstances, do reconstruct the emotional and intellectual spécificities of a special region or country. In this critical work we belief it's essencial to prefer films which rufuse, in its form and expression, the retake of sterotype ways of reality restituition. This refuse is an act of resistance against the actual period of "globalisation", which inclins to impose one dominating model of culture and habitutes.
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