Sibelius
Pietiläinen Jaakko
An experimental short film combining documentary and fiction follows Jaakko Pietiläinen's transformation into a reborn national composer Sibelius. The work deals with male artist myths and nationalism.
Production Year
2015
Duration
00:36:50
Tyyppi
Asiasana
documentarism, experimental films, fiction, metamorphosis (change), music, mythology, nationalism, performance (art forms), representation, romanticism
Original Title
Sibelius
Finnish Title
Sibelius
English Title
Sibelius
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Jaakko Pietiläinen (Author), Jonatan Sundström (Cinematographer), Aarne Tapola (Cinematographer), Jaakko Pietiläinen (Composer), Jaakko Pietiläinen (Director), Jaakko Pietiläinen (Editor), Jaakko Pietiläinen (Producer), Jaakko Pietiläinen (Script), Akse Petterson (Actor), Carmen Moggach-Laivaara (Actor), Ville Koponen (Actor), Erkki Lasonpalo (Actor), Untamo Heikkinen (Actor), Noora Dadu (Actor), Tomas Nuñez-Garcés (Actor), Antti Mattila (Actor), Joonas Heikkinen (Actor), Yrjänä Heikkinen (Actor), Jaakko Pietiläinen (Actor), Samuli Nittymäki (Actor), Eero Pitkänen (Animation), Suomen näytelmäkerho Ry (Funder), AVEK (Funder), Taiteen edistämiskeskus (Funder), Elina Vainio (Set Building), Jorma Kaulanen (Sound Design), Leo Liesvirta (Visual Effects)
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Jaakko Pietiläinen is a Helsinki-based artist working cross disciplinarily between visual arts, performance and contemporary dance and theatre, utilising different materials and media, ranging from video to spatial interventions. Pietiläinen’s works are often site and/or situation specific, operating in an interplay of the factual (or the real) and fictional narratives. Pietiläinen is interested in the technological infrastructures of contemporary cultures, how they subtly reshape realities and how they malfunction and create novel, uncanny aesthetic distortions. Lately he has been working with architectural thematics. Some of his latest works include a permanent public sculpture ‘Invited Guests’ to Nikkilä, Sipoo (2019), a solo exhibition ‘Housing Fair’ at gallery Sorbus (2018), Helsinki and a collective performance ‘PET’ in Kiasma, Helsinki 2017.