7BPM

Lounila Liisa

7BPM (7 beats per minute) depicts a nocturnal thunderstorm in Chinle, Arizona. Set at night, the dreamlike still image looks over a painterly, artificially illuminated small moss surrounded by darkness. A hypnotic, monotonic choir of frogs and crickets create a continuous soothing audio background to a thunder trapped in a nearby canyon. The lightnings appear in an unnaturally steady pattern, exposing the surrounding open landscape behind the lit foreground. For a split second the view resembles a set from a horror movie. The ever-present thunder storm, associated with divine and destructive powers, leaves the foreground and the viewer untouched and irritatingly safe to his/her own private area.

Production Year
2013
Duration
00:14:38
Tyyppi
Asiasana
Original Title
7BPM
Finnish Title

7BPM

English Title

7BPM

Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Sound
Yes
Cast
Liisa Lounila (Author), Liisa Lounila (Director), Sebastian Tesch (Sound)
Press Photos
Liisa Lounila (b.1976) lives and works in Helsinki. Her main mediums are experimental film/video, photography and painting. Her works usually deal with an obscure need for change, great expectations and places of potential. Usually her pictures, both still and moving, have their background in movies, yellow papers, lifestyle magazines and pop lyrics.