EMS Nr 1

Ralph Lundsten | Finland | 1966 | 14' |

| IFFR 2014

The collaboration between Kurenniemi and Swedish electronic music composer Ralph Lundsten worked both ways: Kurenniemi built instruments for Lundsten and Lundsten’s psychedelic short films influenced Erkki’s filmmaking. This visionary film features sounds recorded by Lundsten on machines built by Kurenniemi.

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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.
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The Punched Tape of Life

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Spindrift

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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 on
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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 cover their e
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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 spiders merge.
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