Avaruusromua 28 vuotta / Space Junk 28 Years

Avaruusromua 28 vuotta.
4. Toimi Tytti featuring Jimi Tenor: "Ykskyt yks Gawolski".
Abandoned service station, Helsingintie, Mäntsälä.

Avaruusromua 28 vuotta: Betonisen aikakauden muistomerkit: Outoja ääniä ja hylättyjä paikkoja /
Spake Junk 28 Years: Monuments of the Concrete Era: Strange Sounds and Empty Places from Finland
Tampere Film Festival: National Competition 6
T32 | 7.3. THU/TO 21:00 | PLEVNA 5
Language/kieli: Eng, Fin
D: VJ Indigo | Finland 2018 | Documentary | 60 min

TFF: "The monuments of the age of concrete, abandoned places and objects engage in dialogue with previously unheard Finnish electronic music."

"Betoniaikakauden monumentit sekä hylätyt paikat ja rakennukset käyvät keskustelua aiemmin julkaisemattoman suomalaisen konemusiikin kanssa." (TFF)

Concept: Jukka Mikkola. D+Cin+visual design: VJ Indigo. ED: Anne Halttune. PC: Yle Kulttuuri.

1. Tuomo Väänänen: "Necessidades".
Abandoned car, Airport, Helsinki.

2. Kuupuu: "Zooah".
Abandoned car, Luukki, Espoo.

3. Rasmus Hedlund: "Yläilmoissa elävä".
Sunken ship, Verkkosaari, Helsinki.

4. Toimi Tytti featuring Jimi Tenor: "Ykskyt yks Gawolski".
Abandoned service station, Helsingintie, Mäntsälä.

5. Olga Palomäki: "7 pm - 7 am (edit 2)".
Abandoned car, Tattarisuo, Helsinki.

6. Latmos: "Sculptur av nordiskt sinne".
Abandoned car, Ämmässuo, Espoo.

7. Tsembla: "Rain Cycle".
Concrete pillars under Helsinki Lahti motorway, Tattarisuo, Helsinki.

8. Timo Kaukolampi: "Kolmas tila (edit)".
Abandoned manor, Kruunuvuori, Helsinki.

9. Hannu Ikola: "Three Last Digits (edit)".
Watertower to be demolished, Lauttasaari, Helsinki.

10. Minea: "Kanto".
Abandoned apartment building, Jakomäki, Helsinki.

AA: Avaruusromua is an acclaimed radio program specializing in experimental and electronic music, edited by Jukka Mikkola since 1990. The music ranges from ambient to electronic, contemporary, experimental, underground, and avantgarde.

I would not call Avaruusromua the movie a documentary. It is an experimental film, a visual response to ten pieces of experimental music.

It is a contemporary interpretation of the quintessential Romantic theme of the ruin. The ruins here include buildings, cars, ships, service stations, and an abandoned landmark, the Lauttasaari watertower. Achievements of culture taken over or falling back to the state of nature.

In the framing narration Jukka Mikkola philosophizes about the nature of time and the time of the nature.

Extérieur nuit: everything takes place at night. The framing footage is in extreme low angle, showing tree tops at night.

The ruins themselves are also recorded in darkness, illuminated by stroboscopic lights. Sometimes the flickering lights obey the rhythm of the music track.

An experience of transcendental meditation. A ghost story of abandoned constructions.