Saturday, January 31, 2009

Mika Taanila: Sommerreise (2006)


Mika Taanila: Sommerreise (2006) featuring Erkki Kurenniemi.

FI 2006. P+D+DP: Mika Taanila. Featuring Erkki Kurenniemi. 16 mm, colour, silent, 3 min. A Mika Taanila print viewed at Cinema Orion, Helsinki, 31 Jan 2009. – The first screening in Finland of this film. – Intentional low tech. – Erkki Kurenniemi, who since in the 1960s started to become a computer-being, smoking compulsively, has lost his capacity of speech. With Kurenniemi's consent, Mika Taanila filmed this anti-Winterreise. It's silent, of course.

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