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.
Also in this combined programme
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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. -
Computers Serve
The futuristic aesthetics of Computers Serve offers an illustrative history of computers, their prospects and risks, as seen in 1968. -
Flora & Fauna
Techno buff Kurenniemi also got ‘good vibes’ from nature. In the fantastically colourful Flora & Fauna, close-ups of inchworms and spiders merge. -
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… -
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 Erkki Kurenniemi pro -
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 knowle -
Kinescope
Eino Ruutsalo’s cinematic testament: discarded footage, kinetic experiments and unexposed stock. Treated by throwing them on the floor and walking on
Film details
- Country of production
- Finland
- Year
- 1966
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 14'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
