Birds in the Earth
Eatnanvuloš Lottit – Maan sisällä linnut
Birds in the Earth is a short film based on dance. The main characters are two young Sámi ballet students: Birit and Katja Haarla. The movie tells a melancholic story through their dance performances. At the same time it examines the deeper questions of the ownership of Sámi land. (AV-arkki)
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Chromaticité I
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A Few Common Phrases
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PTKHO
Escaped from a dream close to the ground, the phenomena of sound poetry retreat farther and farther until they vanish. -
Dutchman’s Photographs
A series on the movement of walking barefoot through the ocean waves, produced using several hundred photographs. -
Birth of the Alseides
A flock of nymphs herald the arrival of spring and explore their hazy surroundings through dance. -
Retaliation
Inspired by Bergman’s The Virgin Spring, a woman gets rid of her frustration by hitting and breaking something. -
Mino-bimaadiziwin
A Super-8 time-lapse documentation of the First Story’s walking tour by Jaene Castrillon: a disabled, mixed-race indigenous Colombian settler. -
Ziarah
On an uninhabited Indonesian island where the nobleman Tupaia is believed to be buried, Bridget Reweti telescopes then and now. -
On the Border
Ocean trash on the beach can be surprisingly captivating. Human amorality, irresponsibility and ocean waves collaborate to create these objects. -
Robert F. Kennedy Funeral Train – The People’s View
A cinematographic reflection on a historic train journey seen from the people’s perspective, with photographs, home movies and witness accounts.
Film details
- Country of production
- Finland
- Year
- 2018
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 11'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
