An odd combination of black humour and melodramatic anxiety blends scantily clad ladies and concentration camps, hand-painted waste footage and studio shots of a man (actor Kaarlo Juurela) in felt boots. The avalanche of electronic music by Kurenniemi is an early prototype of minimalist techno. See also Kinescope in this compilation programme.
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. -
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 -
EMS Nr 1
Visionary film featuring electronic sounds Ralph Lundsten recorded at the Electronic Music Studio of the University of Helsinki on machines built by E
Film details
- Country of production
- Finland
- Year
- 1965
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 5'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
