Florence
Kurenniemi Erkki
Shot during a trip to a conference on electro-acoustic music, Florence is a rich collage of double exposures. Images from the Alps, Milano, and Florence are merged with impressions from the Finnish summer. The 16mm Pathé ciné-camera enabled Kurenniemi to wind back, revisit and reshoot the same frames. Kurenniemi’s original 16 mm film were all silent, but in 2003 Mika Taanila and Kurenniemi added for this version the recorded compositions Prelude (1969) and The Tap (1970).
Production Year
1970
Duration
00:09:14
Tyyppi
Asiasana
abstraction, colours, experimental films, flying, landscape, media art, music, nature, travel, urban landscape, video art
Original Title
Firenze
Finnish Title
Firenze
English Title
Florence
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Sound
Yes
Cast
Erkki Kurenniemi (Author), Erkki Kurenniemi (Composer), Erkki Kurenniemi (Director), Pirkko Peltonen (Actor), Raimo Tuomela (Actor), Carlo Rognoni (Actor), Eira Stenberg (Actor), Paavo Lehtonen (Actor), Mika Taanila (Post-prod Audio)
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Erkki Kurenniemi
Born: 1941
Erkki Kurenniemi (b. 1941) is a pioneer of Finnish electronic music. His projects and works anticipate in many ways the revolutionary impact of computers on both society and personal lives. Between 1964–70 Kurenniemi shot a number of short experimental 16mm films, part of which were later combined with his electronic music from the same era. In the short films, the futuristic fascination towards computers and electronics meets the sensuality of the organic details such as plants and insects. Some of Kurenniemi’s films are also exciting and unique documents about the 1960s underground youth having fun in Helsinki.
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