Johanna Lecklin’s Not Just a Matter of Passion (2019) and Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker (2019) are included in the selection of the Aesthetica Short Film Festival, held in York, England, from November 6-10.
Johanna Lecklin‘s Not Just a Matter of Passion is screened as part of Artists’ Film 1: Night Fog on Wednesday, November 6, at 16:45 and on Saturday, November 9th, at 20:15 in Cinema 1331.
The video comprises two parallel narratives. One shows two young girls discussing the Finnish Civil War as they play a board game based on the 1918 conflict between the Reds and the Whites. In the other, a researcher is listening to an archive interview and viewing photographs taken at the time of the Civil War. Her work focuses on the fates of women and children on the red side of the conflict, the division that split Finnish society in two and the process by which each side attempted to dehumanise the other. The events are set in the present day, with some scenes shot on location in Mänttä-Vilppula, a site of the Civil War front line.
Pilvi Takala‘s The Stroker is screened as part of Experimental 2: Reach Out on Thursday, November 7, at 11:00 in Friargate, and on Sunday, November 10th, at 15:00 in Cinema 1331.
The Stroker is based on Takala’s two week-long intervention at Second Home, a trendy East London coworking space for young entrepreneurs and startups. During the intervention Takala posed as a wellness consultant named Nina Nieminen, the founder of cutting-edge company Personnel Touch who were allegedly employed by Second Home to provide touching services in the workplace.
The Aesthetica Short Film Festival, November 6-10 2019, York, England
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