Am I Calling You at A Bad Time?
Tuomaala Martta, KENNO FILMI OSK
X is growing up in the 1990s. As a child she makes prank calls and gets her first job in telemarketing as a teenager. Office smells, heavy breathers, and meaningless greetings follow her from one workplace to another. Through archival material and amateur video footage, the narrative reflects X’s actions as a faceless subject playing with her voice as a commercialised asset.
Production Year
2025
Duration
00:15:00
Tyyppi
Asiasana
archival materials, childhood, customer service, do-it-yourself, feminism, feminists, media art, satire, telemarketing, work culture
Original Title
En kai huonoon aikaan soittele
English Title
Am I Calling You at A Bad Time?
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
KENNO FILMI OSK (Author), Martta Tuomaala (Author), Martta Tuomaala (Cinematographer), Danai Anagnostou (Cinematographer), Farbod Fakharzadeh (Cinematographer), Johannes Valkonen (Cinematographer), R Liininen (Composer), Martta Tuomaala (Director), Martta Tuomaala (Editor), Sakari Suuronen (Editor), Farbod Fakharzadeh (Producer), Martta Tuomaala (Producer), Danai Anagnostou (Producer), KENNO FILMI OSK (Producer), Martta Tuomaala (Script), Lou Strömberg (Sound Design), KENNO FILMI OSK (Copyright Holder), Taiteen edistämiskeskus (Funder), AVEK (Funder), Oskar Öflunds stiftelse (Funder), Olga ja Vilho Linnamon säätiö (Funder)
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Martta Tuomaala is a Helsinki-based visual artist (MA) who works between documentary and fiction. She works with various forms of film, video and installation. Over the past decade she has mainly focused on work culture and workers’ issues. Tuomaala has worked in many low-income fields and her own experiences have inspired her to create projects that emphasize workers’ rights.
Kenno Filmi is a cooperative film production house founded in 2019. Taking a research-centric approach, through film productions, critical publications, and creative programming, Kenno Filmi addresses and challenges the discriminative structures that are still present in the film industry. Prioritising collaborative methodologies, a Kenno Filmi production fosters dreaming, artistic expression, and the exchange of skills, time, and ideas.
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