Coriolis (installation)
Viita Milja
Coriolis is a poetic documentary about identical twins, Marthe and Martine, who are separated by the world. A caregiver of the elderly, Martine lives currently in Helsinki, while Marthe, who works as a dressmaker, still lives in their home country, Togo. The two sisters come from a region where the great forces of the climate, planetary winds, arise from.
Production Year
2013
Tyyppi
Asiasana
Africa, documentarism, documentary films, experimental films, families, fate, identical twins, landscape, media art, memories (mental objects), nature, personal narrative, seas, seasons, sewing, siblinghood, Togo, twins, video art, video installations, wind
Original Title
Coriolis (installation)
Finnish Title
Coriolis
Dialogue
No
Sound
Yes
Cast
Milja Viita (Author), Milja Viita (Cinematographer), Kaija Saariaho (Composer), Milja Viita (Editor), Milja Viita (Script), Marie-Reine Acapo (Actor), Martine Hakli (Actor), Marthe Napo (Actor), Akwa Charlotte Houessoue (Actor), Loa Linnea Salo (Actor), Milja Viita (Audio), Veli Granö (Audio), AVEK (Funder)
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Milja Viita's (b.1974) installations and films consist of experimental and documentary elements. Her works have been exhibited in e.g. Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Mänttä Art Festival and in film and media art festivals internationally. Milja Viita lives and works in Porvoo, Finland. She graduated with MFA degree in Time and Space Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki in 2005.
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