The Long Goodbye
Kalleinen Tellervo, Lehtonen Braun Niina
JOKAklubi's video work is inspired by the instrumental piece The Long Goodbye by Karl Jonas Winqvist & Blood Music. The video and the soundtrack share the same intense feeling of a never-ending journey and changing landscapes. Three figures in blue search for ingredients and materials from all the possible and impossible places of the magical world. Slowly the visually strong images turn into a documentation of a street performance where the big efforts are turned into a small gesture.
Production Year
2016
Duration
00:07:48
Tyyppi
Asiasana
Original Title
The Long Goodbye
English Title
The Long Goodbye
Production Countries
Finland,Germany,Sweden
Dialogue
No
Sound
Yes
Cast
Niina Lehtonen Braun (Author), Tellervo Kalleinen (Author), Laura Horelli (Cinematographer), Vicky von Minckwitz (Cinematographer), Tellervo Kalleinen (Cinematographer), Väinö Kalleinen (Cinematographer), Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen (Cinematographer), Grisella Greiterling (Cinematographer), Mirka Raito (Cinematographer), Mikko Kallio (Cinematographer), Miriam Ohorn (Cinematographer), Ulu Braun (Cinematographer), Milan Braun (Cinematographer), Meri Bogdanović (Cinematographer), Niina Lehtonen Braun (Cinematographer), Karl Jonas Winqvist (Composer), Tellervo Kalleinen / JOKAklubi (Director), Niina Lehtonen Braun / JOKAklubi (Director), Mirka Raito / JOKAklubi (Director), Tellervo Kalleinen (Script), Niina Lehtonen Braun / JOKAklubi (Script), Mirka Raito / JOKAklubi (Script), Tellervo Kalleinen / JOKAklubi (Cast), Niina Lehtonen Braun / JOKAklubi (Cast), Mirka Raito (Cast), Tellervo Kalleinen / JOKAklubi (Editor), Niina Lehtonen Braun / JOKAklubi (Editor), Mirka Raito / JOKAklubi (Editor), JOKAklubi (Production Company), Karl Jonas Winqvist (Sound Design)
Niina Lehtonen Braun is a Helsinki-born visual and performance artist based in Berlin. Her distinctive visual language combines text and collage with ink paintings and drawings. She also creates ink painting animations.
Lehtonen Braun’s works have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world. German publisher Kerber Verlag has published three of her artist’s books: Mother Said (2013), These Foolish Things Remind Me of You (2016), and Let Go Girl (2021). Her fourth artist’s book, My body is my studio, was published in 2026 by Argobooks (Berlin).
Together with Tellervo Kalleinen and Mirka Raito, Lehtonen Braun is a member of the performance collective JOKAklubi, known for its visually rich performances that bring together guest stars, music, and talk show elements.
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Tellervo Kalleinen is a visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland. She graduated as MFA from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2003. She works with video, performance, intervention and events. Most of her works are participatory and based on creative collaboration. Since 2003, she has worked with Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen. The works of the artist duo are participatory by nature. Most recent works tackle the human relationship with society through means of film. Kalleinen and Kochta-Kalleinen have participated in exhibitions around the world, including Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria (2010), MoMA P.S.1 in New York (2008), Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2010) and Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki (2014). Kalleinen and Kochta-Kalleinen won the prestigious Ars Fennica Award in 2014.