Aalto ELO Film School Finland: 2023 Autumn Show of Student Films, Part II

ELO FILM SCHOOL FINLAND ESITTÄÄ – PRESENTS

ELO SYYSNÄYTÖS

ELON UUSIMMAT HARJOITUSELOKUVAT JA LOPPUTYÖELOKUVAT

LATEST STUDENT FILMS BY ELO

Tennispalatsin iSense-Sali (3. Krs), Salomonkatu 15, Helsinki

New Student Films

Friday 15.12.2023

II NÄYTÖS / SCREENING 2 PM - 86 MIN

OPENING SPEECH: Tuomas Auvinen, Dean

UUSIEN OPISKELIJOIDEN ESITTELY - introducing the new students

SURULLINEN JA ERILAINEN (Sad and Different)

documentary, 2024, dir. Juho Luukkainen, 17’, MA film

    AA: Experimental. A moving poetic meditation of Trauerarbeit, on loss and endless grief, bordering on avantgarde, set on a seashore, with a central image of drowning, with underwater footage including jellyfish. Intriguing apocalyptic soundscape.

30 KILOMETRIÄ SEKUNNISSA (30 KILOMETRES PER SECOND)

documentary, 2024, dir. Jani Peltonen, 23’, MA film

    AA: Experimental. An essayistic film poem on asentoaisti (proprioception), the dance ban on rukouslauantai [the Saturday devoted to prayer], Ryan O'Neal as Rodney Harrington visiting Finland on Midsummer 1970 (footage possibly from Jörn Donner's Perkele!), phantom rides from the 1890s from the Library of Congress (courtesy Zoran Sinobad), Biafra / Nigeria footage from 1967, James Drury as The Virginian mobbed in Finland in 1971. - 30 km per second is the speed in which the Earth revolves the Sun.

JE M’APPELLE MARIIA (My Name is Mariia)

documentary, 2024, dir. Juho Reinikainen, 26’, MA film

    AA: Non-fiction. A cinéma-vérité record of Mariia from Ukraine coming to Finland and continuing to Paris to study, escorted there by her mother. "I only have you". A lot of handheld footage. Moments of discovering tourist attractions, moments of fun like learning from the internet how to heat the bottleneck to remove the cork. The displaced, refugee, stranger experience in Europe today.

ISÄN MÄYRÄ (My Father’s Badger)

fiction, 2024, dir. Sameli Muurimäki, 20’, välityö

    AA: Fiction, drama with the experienced actors Armi Toivanen, Vesa Vierikko, Tiina Weckström and Sherwan Haji. The daughter (Armi Toivanen) owns a bar in Thailand and has come to fetch the preserved badger of her deceased father. Taxidermy was their shared passion. But mother (Tiina Weckström) is reluctant to relinquish it. The argument takes place in a bar where Vesa Vierikkö, a man at the last stage of cancer, keeps her company. A black comedy on intergenerational incommunicado.