12 Yellow Stars
Halonen Henna-Riikka
A surrealist film about walls and borders. In the story, a girl and a boy find themselves in a strange new world while a man and a woman are struggling with separation, burdened by both the weight and the lightness of words. Based on a comic book The Raspberry Ice Cream War, published by the European Union in 1996.
Production Year
2017
Duration
00:13:33
Tyyppi
Asiasana
boundaries, European identity, experimental films, fiction, human relations, humour, landscape, love, personal narrative, political art, politics, surrealism
Original Title
12 Yellow Stars
Production Countries
Finland,Israel
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Henna-Riikka Halonen (Author), Iddo Soskolne (Cinematographer), Henna-Riikka Halonen (Director), Markus Leppälä (Editor), Henna-Riikka Halonen (Script), Marc Gassot (Actor), Clementine Courregelongue (Actor), David Radychevsky (Actor), Saara Kotkaniemi (Actor), AVEK (Funder), Jyri Pirinen (Sound Design)
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Henna-Riikka Halonen lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. She graduated with BA from Limerick School of Art and Design, Ireland in 2002 and with MFA from Goldsmiths College in London in 2006. She is currently undertaking doctoral studies in the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki. Her work has been seen in various exhibitions, biennales and festivals worldwide, such as Sydney Biennale 2014, Eyebeam in New York (2013), Gallery Factory in Seoul, Korea (2012), Transmediale 2012 in Berlin, Berwick Gymnasium Gallery in the UK (2010), Collective Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland (2009) and International Incheon Women Artstis’ Biennale in Korea (2007).
9 works