Angelo
Kytösalmi-Buhl Mervi
A scrutiny on choreography from an unusual perspective. The video begins with a sequence where a pair of shoes is painted yellow. Then a found film footage takes us to a game of musical chairs. One of us always falls in the empty gap. Rest of the video documents a dance on a glass plate, shot from beneath the legs.
Production Year
1981
Duration
00:18:55
Tyyppi
Asiasana
abstraction, choreography, dance (performing arts), dance films, experimental films, feet, glass, media art, mirrors, paints, perspective, playing (children's games), shoes, steps, video art, videotape works
Original Title
Angelo
Finnish Title
Angelo
English Title
Angelo
Production Countries
Germany
Dialogue
No
Sound
Yes
Cast
Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl (Author), Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl (Director)
Press Photos
Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl
Born: 1948
Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl was born in Imatra, Finland and currently lives and works in Cologne, Germany. Kytösalmi-Buhl is a pioneer of Finnish video art, whose work in the 1970s and 1980s can be considered as the beginning of Finnish video art. The artist has studied in the Düsseldorf Art Academy in Germany under the guidance of famous pioneers artists such as Nam June Paik. In her resent works, she has used photography, object collages and crocheting. Her works can be found in the collections of e.g. the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki.
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