The Punched Tape of Life
Elämän reikänauha
The ‘book of life’ is a familiar metaphor: the typical progression of birth, family, career, death… But have we entered the era of the punched tape of life? In this prophetic montage, set to electronic music, Kurenniemi intercuts early computerised work systems with glimpses of people frolicking in nature. Is everything recorded on film destined to become mere digital data, fitting a stereotype of existence? Or does real life continue to resist its encoding?
– Adrian Martin
Also in this combined programme
-
Introduction to Humanities
A film teacher begins her class with a fun camera exercise involving all the students. -
No Archive Can Restore You
An exploration into the ‘sonic shadows’ that colonial moving images continue to generate. -
Frozen War (Hotel Diaries 1)
Sardonic reflections on the state of the world occasioned by a frozen news broadcast. -
Watching Words Becoming a Film (TXT.FLM #3)
Only words on screen: Asselberghs bridges political, avant-garde cinema and the ubiquitous telephone text message. -
USSA
Diaristic images of USA and USSR are inventively juxtaposed to stress not differences but similarities. -
Am I Human?
Lou hurls images of herself against torrents of loading files, digital code and media imagery. -
wandering through secret storms
Images of women doing office work are mixed with redacted FBI notations. Does freedom exist? -
TV & VT-Works
A series of artistic interventions interrogating the mechanisms of television production and spectatorship. -
Dreams Under Confinement
A sobering, chilling mash-up of frantic Chicago Police audio messages with sinister Google Maps imagery.
Film details
- Country of production
- Finland
- Year
- 1964
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2024
- Length
- 8'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
