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.
- Director
- Mika Taanila
- Country of production
- Finland
- Year
- 1998
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 30'
- Medium
- 35mm
- Original title
- Futuro - tulevaisuuden olotila
- Language
- no dialogue
- Producer
- Mika Taanila
- Production Company
- Kinotar Oy
- Sales
- Kinotar Oy
- Screenplay
- Mika Taanila
- Cinematography
- Jussi Eerola
- Editor
- Mika Taanila
- Production Design
- Kari Juusonen
- Sound Design
- Olli Huhtanen