Electronics in the World of Tomorrow
Cut-out images from American magazine Electronics rotating on a turntable create a vertiginous effect and form the steady basis of this hypnotic film. The soundtrack features Kurenniemi’s own first recording, the blasting noise piece On/Off. Remastered and edited by Erkki Kurenniemi and Mika Taanila in 2002.
Also in this combined programme
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Computers Serve
The futuristic aesthetics of Computers Serve offers an illustrative history of computers, their prospects and risks, as seen in 1968.
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Flora & Fauna
Techno buff Kurenniemi also got ‘good vibes’ from nature. In the fantastically colourful Flora & Fauna, close-ups of inchworms and
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The Jump
Deafening composition by Erkki Kurenniemi paralleled visually by a brief sequence shot in a street – a group of men and children seem to cove
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Spindrift
In 1965 Swedish composer/musician Jan Bark proposed an experiment for a new kind of ‘music for black-and-white TV’. Bark’s friend
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The Punched Tape of Life
In this satirical film Kurenniemi intuitively explores the possibilities of a symbiosis between man and machine in the light of contemporaneous kno
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Kinescope
Eino Ruutsalo’s cinematic testament: discarded footage, kinetic experiments and unexposed stock. Treated by throwing them on the floor and walking
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EMS Nr 1
Visionary film featuring electronic sounds Ralph Lundsten recorded at the Electronic Music Studio of the University of Helsinki on machines built b
Film details
- Country of production
- Finland
- Year
- 1964
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 5"
- Medium/Format
- File
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