Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 4 New York, New York (2019) is streamed by Harvard Film Archive from December 3–6 2021 as double bill with Thomas Kneubühler’s Forward Looking Statements (2014).
Waste no. 4 New York, New York revisits the history of the City in twenty minutes through twelve cemeteries and one landfill. The short documentary is the fourth, independent episode from the ten-part Waste series.
Media artist and film director Jan Ijäs (b. 1975) studied documentary film making at the Department of Film, Television and Scenography at the Aalto University in Helsinki. His work can be described as a blend of avant garde, experimental media art and documentary film making. His films have been screened at more than 200 Finnish and international film festivals and as installations in museums and art galleries. He has won numerous awards, including the Finnish Risto Jarva Prize in 2011 for SWEET MOV(I)E, Raft of the Médusa, film about immigration won Amnesty International Award 2018 at the IndieLisboa film festival in Portugal.
Jan Ijäs: Waste no. 4 New York, New York, December 3–6 2021, Harvard Film Archive, U.S.
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