Amnion
Ekström Saara
Landfills on the fringes of cities reveal all about our culture, habits, fears and desires. Here treasures turn into trash and the excess of our discarded welfare and cheap labor dances in the wind. Shot in 8mm film, Amnion (innermost membrane enclosing an embryo) is a dark and melancholy vision, where the organic merges with the synthetic, polymer molecules imitate the DNA helix, and new life begins to take shape under transparent folds of plastic wrapping.
Production Year
2023
Duration
00:06:50
Tyyppi
Asiasana
analogy, animation, change, consumption, culture, dance (performing arts), death, decay, dirt, DNA, documentary films, films, landfills, landscape, life, melancholy, molecules, plastic, polymers, surrealism, wastes
Original Title
Amnion
English Title
Amnion
Production Countries
Finland,Japan
Dialogue
No
Sound
Yes
Cast
Saara Ekström (Author), Saara Ekström (Cinematographer), Saara Ekström (Director), Eero Tammi (Editor), Saara Ekström (Producer), Saara Ekström (Script), Heikki Kossi (Sound Design), AVEK (Funder), Youkobo Art Space (Funder)
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Saara Ekström works in film, photography, text and installation. Chronotopes where time and place densify, time that nurtures and erodes, the ambivalent desire to both remember and forget are at the core of her art. Ekström’s work has been shown extensively in various museums and festivals in Europe, the Americas and Asia. She received the State Prize for Visual Arts in 2023, the Finnish media art prize AVEK Award in 2018 and the prizes of SW Finland in 2017, Finnish Art Society in 1995 and the Aboa prize in 1994. She has been the Helsinki Festival Artist in 2005 and was nominated for both Ars Fennica and Carnegie Art Award prizes in 2010.
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