12 Yellow Stars
Halonen Henna-Riikka
A surrealist film about walls and borders. In the story, a girl and a boy find themselves in a strange new world while a man and a woman are struggling with separation, burdened by both the weight and the lightness of words. Based on a comic book The Raspberry Ice Cream War, published by the European Union in 1996.
Production Year
2017
Duration
00:13:33
Asiasana
boundaries, European identity, experimental films, fiction, human relations, humour, landscape, love, personal narrative, political art, politics, surrealism
Original Title
12 Yellow Stars
Production Countries
Finland,Israel
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Henna-Riikka Halonen (Author), Iddo Soskolne (Cinematographer), Henna-Riikka Halonen (Director), Markus Leppälä (Editor), Henna-Riikka Halonen (Script), Marc Gassot (Actor), David Radychevsky (Actor), Clementine Courregelongue (Actor), Saara Kotkaniemi (Actor), AVEK (Funder), Jyri Pirinen (Sound Design)
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Henna-Riikka Halonen’s works are often responses to a specific context or a site, aiming to highlight our need to structure experiences as fiction to gain an understanding of them. By creating speculative systems or worlds, her work explores our relationship to materials, objects, words, and living and non-living beings. Halonen has worked on and produced many collaborative and large- scale projects and commissions and has shown her work widely in international exhibitions and festivals such as Incheon Biennale of Women Artists, South-Korea, IFFR, Rotterdam, Hayward Gallery London, 2017, Biennale of Sydney 2014, Lilith Performance Studio. Malmo, Centre Pompidou, Paris etc and Gus Fisher Gallery, New Zealand. Halonen graduated with an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London in 2006. She completed a Doctorate at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki in 2020.
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