Do Rivers Really Ever End

Roover Kati

Do Rivers Really Ever End is a poetic video essay, in which the personal, indigenous and local, mythological and scientific knowledge are combined. The video essay is an attempt to feel empathy toward these inanimate flowing ecosystems, rivers, flowing waters at the time when life giving river and freshwater ecosystems are drying, are dammed, polluted and transformed.

Production Year
2020
Duration
00:24:54
Tyyppi
Asiasana
Original Title
Do Rivers Really Ever End
English Title

Do Rivers Really Ever End

Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Kati Roover (Author), Kati Roover (Cinematographer), Kati Roover (Composer), Kati Roover (Editor), Kati Roover (Producer), Kati Roover (Script), Taiteen edistämiskeskus (Funder), Johannes Vartola (Sound Design)
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Kati Roover is Estonian-born Helsinki based multidisciplinary artist. Her practice spans across the mediums of moving image, sound, photography, painting, drawing, text and installations, draws upon and addresses a broad range of topics that are connected -– from human-non-human interactions, dialogical aesthetics, mythical storytelling, decoloniality and hydrofeminism, to the natural sciences and ecology.