Strange Place For Snow
Halonen Henna-Riikka
The surreal short film creates a mirage-like universe – suspended between past and future, and fiction and reality – where the familiar rubs shoulders with the strange. The references to sci-fi literature reflect the future and the complex identity of a historical border town in Northern England. A woman's journey through architectural spaces generates an unstable perception of time and captures uncertainties of the present. Through the use of non-linear narrative and subjective experiences, the events are seen from alternative angles.
Production Year
2010
Duration
00:09:35
Asiasana
dystopias, experimental films, expressionism, fiction, reality, science, subjectivity, surrealism, time travel
Original Title
Strange Place For Snow
Finnish Title
Strange Place For Snow
English Title
Strange Place For Snow
Dialogue
Yes
Aspect Ratio
16:9
Sound
Yes
Cast
Henna-Riikka Halonen (Author), Henna-Riikka Halonen (Director), Zoviet France (Music), Scott Ward (Camera), Minttu Mäntynen (Camera), Dave Morgan (Lighting), Marcelo De Oliveira (Sound Design), Dougie Fairgrieve (Sound Recording), Arnaud Moinet (Still Photography), Yael Schmidt (Still Photography)
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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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