Aamu

Elina Saloranta

Morning is a video work and also a contemporary genre painting – an 'interior painting' depicting everyday life. The image shows a family at a breakfast.

Production Year
2013
Duration
00:21:30
Type
Genre
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Original Title
Aamu
Finnish Title

Aamu

Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Elina Saloranta (Author), Elina Saloranta (Director), Elias Siren (Actor), Ari Sirén (Actor), Tilda Sirén (Actor), Elina Saloranta (Actor), Elina Saloranta (Editor), Tatu Virtamo (Sound)
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Elina Saloranta

Born: 1968

Elina Saloranta is a Helsinki-based artist, who works mainly with the moving image. In her doctoral thesis Genre pictures and experiments in writing, she explored the interaction between image, word and sound, and in her postdoc research she engages in correspondence with the past. Saloranta is also known for her photographic work Nun, which was shown in the ARS 2011 exhibition in Kiasma. She studied film at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA 2001), and her video pieces have been shown in festivals like Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, Love & Anarchy (Helsinki International Film Festival) and Oberhausen Film Festival (2006).