To Melt
Långström Minna
Somewhere in time a person carries a package, then drops it to the ground with a crash. Someone else explores the content of the box. The story is repeated in what first appears to be an endless loop. To Melt is an audiovisual poem about intergenerational transmissions of memories. The same story is repeated eight times in the film, with little variation. Two characters are played by seven actors in order to render descriptive notions such as gender irrelevant to the story. The film is about any person, and subsequently the film also explores the concept of identification with characters in films.
Production Year
2015
Duration
00:07:06
Tyyppi
Asiasana
audiovisual materials, boxes, experimental films, families, fiction, generations, ice, kins, materials, media art, melting, memories (mental objects), political art, remembrance, repetition, space, states of aggregation, video art, violence (activity)
Original Title
Att Smälta
Finnish Title
Sulaminen
English Title
To Melt
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Sound
Yes
Cast
Minna Långström (Author), Mikko Levoska (Cinematographer), Minna Långström (Director), Minna Långström (Editor), Jani Lehto (Music), Minna Långström (Script), Pietu Wikström (Actor), Jouko Hokkanen (Actor), Andrea Björkholm (Actor), Risto Erjanko (Actor), Marjatta Korpelainen (Actor), Elias Keränen (Actor), Greta Mandelin (Actor), AVEK (Funder), VISEK (Funder), Oskar Öflunds stiftelse (Funder), Erik Kenttä (Lighting), Jonna Karlström (Make-Up), Niko Tiranis (Production Assistant), Mirja Oksanen (Production Assistant), Elina Hyvärinen (Sound Design), Jani Lehto (Sound Design)
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Långström is a media artist and filmmaker. Her artistic work consists of films – short fiction and documentary – as well as cinematic installations, combining moving images with spatial elements. Her work processes tend to be extensive, well researched and interdisciplinary. Her work focuses on social perspectives on technologically mediated narratives and visual technologies, as well as certain political histories and their cinematic influences on the present. The intuitive experience and role of the viewer is a central aspect of her installations.
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