Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow
Futuro - tulevaisuuden olotila
The 100% plastic Futuro House designed by Matti Suuronen in 1968, an egg-shaped, prefabricated portable building, is an icon of space-age design. The film traces the short history of this structure, which symbolizes ‘the dream of the future’ of the late 1960s, examining the utopian ‘Made-In-Finland’ vision and how the oil crisis put an abrupt end to the project in 1974. Today the Futuro House stands for a utopia that almost came true.
Also in this combined programme
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The Zone of Total Eclipse
The Finnish artist Mika Taanila manipulates found scientific footage – a registration of an eclipse – that he shows in both positive and negative. -
Optical Sound
A rhythmic choreography of printer parts and their now classic typography, interspersed with observations of office life. -
The Future Is Not What It Used to Be
A portrait by Mika Taanila of one of the unsung pioneers of early electronic art, Finnish scientist and artist Erkki Kurenniemi.
Film details
- Country of production
- Finland
- Year
- 1998
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 30'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
