ARIES
Mikkola Elian
A single window frame; a portal. As the circular nature of time begins to reveal itself, a new decade begins.
Production Year
2020
Duration
00:03:20
Tyyppi
Asiasana
Original Title
ARIES
Finnish Title
ARIES
English Title
ARIES
Production Countries
Canada
Dialogue
No
Sound
No
Cast
Elian Mikkola (Author), Elian Mikkola (Cinematographer), Elian Mikkola (Director), Elian Mikkola (Producer)
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Elian Mikkola is a Finnish Moving Image Artist (of Karelian descent), and a white settler currently based between Treaty 4, Regina, and Montréal (Tiohtià:ke), Canada. Originally from Turku, Finland, Mikkola holds a BA in Journalism from Tampere University. They completed their MFA in Media Production in 2019 at the University of Regina. Mikkola works closely with both analog and digital images and their hybrid extensions. Their work explores themes such as memory, spatial dependences and queer belonging. Mikkola’s work has been showcased in several film festivals in Canada and internationally. Their debut film SAARI (2016) was selected to TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival student program in 2017 and their latest two films premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020 and Hong Kong International Film Festival in 2021. Mikkola has been a part of La Lumière Collective based in Montréal and a current board member of the Queer City Cinema.