The Bench
Hyvärinen Aimo
An easygoing travel with a bench. ”The bench is from the sauna where I used to bath my children. The surface of the bench is like smooth skin. I have even slept on it during the hardship.” The Bench is both a portrait of a performance artist Heikki Mäntymaa and a documentation of his performances.
Production Year
2014
Duration
00:11:00
Tyyppi
Asiasana
autobiographical approach, documentarism, documentary films, landscape, media art, nature, performance (art forms), personal narrative, portraits (works of art ), short films
Original Title
Penkki
Finnish Title
Penkki
English Title
The Bench
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Sound
Yes
Cast
Aimo Hyvärinen (Author), Aimo Hyvärinen (Cinematographer), Aimo Hyvärinen (Director), Irma Silvennoinen (Editor), Aimo Hyvärinen (Editor), Heikki Mäntymää (Author), Taiteen edistämiskeskus (Funder), VISEK (Funder)
Aimo Hyvärinen is a versatile media artist, photographer and documentary filmmaker based in Tampere. Active since the 1980s, his career includes feature-length documentaries, large multimedia productions, several corporation films, many video installations and more than twenty photo art exhibitions. Hyvärinen’s documentary films and videos have been broadcast at various tv channels abroad and screened at international festivals.
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