Asphalto
Pohjola Ilppo
As a conceptual fiction Asphalto describes the relationship of a man and a woman by means of metaphor and visual symbols related to asphalt, service stations and automotive sports.
Production Year
1998
Duration
00:41:26
Tyyppi
Asiasana
abstraction, architecture, cars, destruction, fiction, human relations, love, numbers, repetition, symbolism, urban landscape, urban space, violence (activity)
Original Title
Asphalto
Finnish Title
Asphalto
English Title
Asphalto
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Aspect Ratio
Other
Sound
Yes
Cast
Ilppo Pohjola (Author), Ilppo Pohjola (Director), Heikki Salo (Editor), Wieslaw Pogorzelski (Music), Merzbow (Music), Lee Digi-Dub (Music), Kristallisilmä Oy (Producer), Irina Björklund (Cast), Ilari Nummi (Cast), Peter Franzen (Cast), Jim McKee (Sound)
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Ilppo Pohjola is an artist and filmmaker based in Helsinki, Finland. He studied at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, USA and at Sheridan College in Toronto, Canada. He graduated from Harrow College of Higher Education in London, UK in 1988. Pohjola has made a number of awarded films, videos and multimedia installations, which have been shown internationally in museum, galleries, cinemas, on TV and at over 100 film festivals, and acquired to private and public collections. He has also works as a designer, photographer and cinematographer.