Borderlands
Rainio Minna, Roberts Mark
Borderlands is a three-channel installation which takes the Finnish-Russian border as its central theme. The piece uses fact, fiction and fantasy to investigate how the presence of the border affects people living on either side.
Production Year
2003
Duration
00:26:00
Tyyppi
Asiasana
border security, boundaries, documentarism, documentary films, fiction, installations (works of art), interviews, landscape, media art, nature, political art, racism, video art, video installations
Original Title
Rajamailla
Finnish Title
Rajamailla
English Title
Borderlands
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
Yes
Cast
Minna Rainio (Author), Mark Roberts (Author), Minna Rainio (Director), Mark Roberts (Director), Mark Roberts (Music), Soile Kortesalmi (Producer), Mark Roberts (Script), Minna Rainio (Script), Taiteen keskustoimikunta (Funder), David Wingate / POEM elokuva- ja mediasäätiö (Funder), Katja Härkönen / POEM elokuva- ja mediasäätiö (Funder), Kiasma (Funder), AVEK (Funder), Helena Okkola (Narrator), Mark Roberts (Photographer), Minna Rainio (Photographer), Vesa Tuisku (Sound)
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Minna Rainio and Mark Roberts create short films and moving image installations that combine aspects of documentary and fiction filmmaking. Their new short film “To Teach a Bird to Fly” (2020) looks at climate change and bird extinction. Rainio and Roberts’s films have been widely exhibited in Finland, Europe, the United States and South America, and have been shown in the official selections of numerous international film festivals.
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