The Jump

Hyppy

Eino Ruutsalo | Finland | 1965 | 5' |

| IFFR 2014

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

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
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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 fi
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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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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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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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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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