Portraits of Filmmakers
Drifting Times – Screening 1:
Fri, 22.01. 18:00 h Metropol 3
Drifting Times – Screening 2:
Sat, 23.01. 16:00 h Metropol 3
The works of Marja Mikkonen
Drifting Times curated by Marja Mikkonen These two screenings present eight short films made in Finland during the past ten years. Some of the films share the same crew, though the tasks of people vary according to the films: a director of one film might be the editor of another. Also, a few of the films have been made completely unaware of each other. Still, the films have a lot in common: the usage of voice-over, 8 mm film and archive footage, collage techniques, strong visual imagery, experimental or unusual editing and storytelling, all with an intimate, personal atmosphere. Both screenings will be presented and introduced by Marja Mikkonen.
Drifting Times – Screening 1
Programme:
Marja Mikkonen: “99 Vuotta Elämästäni” (99 Years of my Life)
Marja Mikkonen: “Rondo”
Sini Liimatainen: ” Kylmät varpaat” (Cold Feet)
Joonas Kiviharju: ”Katsotaan mitä tulee” (What Might Come)
99 Vuotta Elämästäni
99 Years of my Life
FIN 2003, Regie: Marja Mikkonen, diverse Filmformate, Farbe, 33:00 Min., englisch
Produktion: Turku Polytechnic Arts Academy / Marja Mikkonen and Sini Liimatainen
“Meanings are created by moments, but to truly understand them we need to travel a short distance in time.” ”99 Years of My Life” is an experimental short film based on the lives, memories, fears and expectations of four women of different age. Together they create one fictional autobiography that is run in the film from birth to death.
Short biography of director: see Jury International Competition
Rondo
FIN 2006, Regie: Marja Mikkonen, Super 8, Farbe, 8:20 Min., o. Dialog / englischer Text
Produktion: Finnish Academy of Fine Art / Marja Mikkonen
A short film about change. A poetic film about memory and change. Containing no dialogue, shot on 8 mm and offering no detailed information about the personalities of the two main characters, this experimental film describes a state of mind of a person in between events.
Kylmät varpaat
Cold feet
FIN 2002, Regie: Sini Liimatainen, Super 8, Farbe, 4:35 Min., o. Dialog
Produktion: Turku Polytechnic Arts Academy
People drifting.
Short biography of director: Cinematographer Sini Liimatainen, born 1973, lives and works in Helsinki. “Kylmät varpaat (Cold Feet)” was her second year student film at Turku Arts Academy.
Katsotaan mitä tulee
What Might Come
FIN 2004, Regie: Joonas Kiviharju, Super 8, Farbe & S/W, 30:00 Min., finnische OmeU
Produktion: Turku Polytechnic Arts Academy
A friendship of two useless people rambling around town.
A girl watches super 8 films. A boy has no money. Together they ramble around town searching for places to spend their time and to do things that are important to them - things that are considered to be useless.
Short biography of director: Joonas Kiviharju spent his childhood in a small industrial town named Nokia. “Katsotaan mitä tulee” is his graduation work from Turku Arts Academy where he studied film directing. He now studies in Visual Culture MA-programme at University of Art and Design Helsinki.
Drifting Times – Screening 2
Programme:
Selma Vilhunen: ”Päivä isän kanssa” (A day with dad)
Elina Talvensaari: ”Palmu” (Palm Tree)
Oliwia Tonteri: “Lilli”
Azar Saiyar: “Helsinki-Tehran”
Päivä isän kanssa
A day with dad
FIN 1999, Regie: Selma Vilhunen, diverse Filmformate, Farbe & S/W, 12:00 Min., finnische OmeU
Produktion: Turku Polytechnic/Arts Academy
A cinematic poem about a father who is present in his daughter's life through words and imagination. When the filmmaker was 21 years old she received peculiar letters. They were from her father and they were written 21 years earlier, when she was just a little baby. In one of the letters the father describes a future summer day with his baby daughter. A day that never happened due to the death of the father. A day that perhaps happened after all, only in another way.
Short biography of director: Selma Vilhunen was born in 1976. She lives and works in Helsinki, writing and directing both documentaries and fictional films. Her feature film directing debut "Belmondo Sisters" will be shot in 2010.
Palmu
Palm Tree
FIN 2008, Regie: Elina Talvensaari, 16 mm, Farbe, 9:56 Min., englisch
Produktion: University of Art and Design Helsinki
Is there a place, where the grass is always greener? ”Palmu” is a documentary film about traveling and escaping everyday life. It is a film about the dreams and expectations we connect to far away places. The film tells about the never ending search for the perfect spot where the grass is always greener. Or is that place only a state of mind?
Short biography of director: Elina Talvensaari studies documentary film at the University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH, School of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design. “Palmu” is her first work as a director.
Lilli
FIN 2007, Regie: Oliwia Tonteri, Super 8, Farbe, 25:40 Min., finnische OmeU
Produktion: University of Art and Design Helsinki
“I will make myself into what I want to be.” The film draws a picture of Lilli, a young opiate addict growing into womanhood, by looking at her diaries in which she vividly conveyed her feelings, perceptions and fantasies until the age of 20.
Short biography of director: Oliwia Tonteri studies documentary film at the University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH. She is originally Polish: she moved to Helsinki when she was eight years old. She has studied classical filology and ethnology in Cracow before her film studies. She lives and works in Helsinki. Her documentary film “Lilli” has been screened in numerous film festivals and it has won the main prize in Fresh Film Festival in 2007.
Helsinki-Tehran
FIN 2009, Regie: Azar Saiyar, 16 mm / HDV, Farbe & S/W, 22:10 Min., finnische OmeU
Produktion: University of Art and Design Helsinki / Azar Saiyar
Personal notes on immigration. “My father was born in Iran. I was born in Helsinki the day the Shah was banished from Iran.” “Helsinki-Tehran” is a cinematic study on immigration, on longing elsewhere and the bond between two people, the filmmaker and her father. It is shown in the form of a poetic short film – a stream of dreams, memories and everyday moments.
Short biography of director: Azar Saiyar is a daughter of an Iranian father and a Finnish mother. Visiting Iran only once when she was one year old, she lived her childhood in Finland and Sweden. Saiyar graduated from Turku Arts Academy as a graphic designer in 2004. She has worked with film since 2002, mostly as an editor. “Helsinki-Tehran” is her debut film as director and her graduation work within the Visual Culture MA programme at the University of Art and Design Helsinki.
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