Olipa kerran Utopia

Once Upon a Time There Was a Utopia. FI 2004. D: Lasse Naukkarinen. 90 min. Beta SP. Viewed at DocPoint, Bio Rex, Helsinki, 12 Jan 2005 (opening gala). Documentary. The video autobiography of the director-cinematographer from the early 1960s Radicalism, through the Communist Odyssey, and to the present day. Fascinating glimpses on the protest against the Prague repression, on Vietnam and Chile activism, on a labour brigade in Cuba. This is hopefully a prologue to more film / video essays on the years of political and cultural engagement.