Floating 5 min
Oja Marjatta
'Floating' is about the feeling of being detached. The subject is treated on three levels: separating the sound from the location, through specially developed camerawork, and through the content of the speech heard on the soundtrack.
Production Year
2003
Duration
00:05:00
Tyyppi
Asiasana
architecture, children (age groups), experimental films, memories (mental objects), nature, personal narrative, rootlesness, sets (photography and filming), sounds, urban space, windows
Original Title
Floating 5 min
English Title
Floating 5 min
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
Yes
Cast
Marjatta Oja (Author), Marjatta Oja (Director), Pekka Sillman (Cast)
Press Photos
Marjatta Oja lives and works in Helsinki. She has studied in Free Art School in Helsinki, Accademia di Belle Arte in Milan and in the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, where she completed her doctoral studies in 2011. Oja uses different media, mainly photographs, videos and objects. She aims to infuse image with depth, liveliness and three-dimensionality into “situational sculptures”. The works of Oja have been presented in exhibitions and events since the late 1980s in Finland, Scandinavia, Europe, Asia and the USA.
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