Erkki Kurenniemi

Erkki KURENNIEMI (1941-2017, Finland) was a philosopher, multimedia artist, designer and a pioneer of Finnish electronic music. He is best known for the electronic instruments he designed and his music compositions. In 1961 he founded the electronic music studio for the Department of Musicology at the University of Helsinki
Filmography
(selection, all short) Winterreise (1964), Electronics in the World of Tomorrow (1964), Elämän reikänauha/The Punched Tape of Life (1964, short), Flora & Fauna (1965), Tavoiteltu kaunotar/Coveted Beauty (1965), Spindrift (1966, co-dir), Computer Music (1966), Huumaava elämänlanka/The Intoxicating Thread of Life (1968), Ex nihilo (1968), Tuli ja vesi/Fire and Water (1968), Sex Show 1 & 2 (1969), Joulumysteeri/Christmas Mystery (1969), Talo/House (1969), Firenze (1970), Carnaby Street (1971)
More Info: Wikipedia, Erkki Kurenniemi
Erkki Kurenniemi at IFFR
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The Punched Tape of Life
Is everything recorded on film destined to become digital data, or does life still resist?
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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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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 cove
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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