Year of Production: 2023
Running Time: 4min59s
Shooting Format: Super-8 Film (Kodak Vision3 200T)
Master Format: Quicktime File (4K)
Production of this film has been supported by The Finnish Cultural Foundation, Lapland Regional fund.
Crew:
Panu Johansson: concept, direction, cinematography, editing, sound design
Susannah Louise: Voice-over
SYNOPSIS:
How does it feel to live next to 170 year old creatures? This short impressionistic film documents an old forest area called Mortin männikkö in Rovaniemi, Northern Finland. As an array of glimpses and moments the film tries to summarise a decade of life next to this vivid & forested tableau vivant.
SCREENINGS & EXHIBITIONS:
2024 Festival Fotogenia, Mexico City, Mexico (coming up)
2024 Experimental Superstars Film Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia
2024 Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Seattle, USA
2024 Elevation Film Festival, Maker-with-Rame, UK
2024 Almaty Underground Screening Series, Kazakhstan
2024 aCinema screening, Milwaukee, WI, USA
2024 Tranås at the Fringe International Art Festival, Sweden
2024 Artists’ Association of Lapland Spring Exhibition, Gallery Napa, Rovaniemi, Finland (group exhibition)
2024 Experiments In Cinema Festival, Albuquerque, NM, USA
2024 The West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, Morgantown, WV, USA
2024 Analog Resistance Festival, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
2024 Inflamável – Festival de Curtas em Super 8, Florianópolis, Brazil
2023 Trees, Parks, People, Arktikum Science Centre and Museum, Rovaniemi, Finland (group exhibition, more info here)
STILL IMAGES:
Images below are meant for web preview only. Full quality press images can be downloaded here.
WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND?
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by.
– Christina Rossetti, 1872 –