Geopsyche
Ekström Saara
Geopsyche is a journey into deep time – the remarkably slow geological events beyond the reach of our comprehension. By searching for connections between geology, evolution and the subconscious, the film escorts us towards mythical landscapes and a consciousness amassed in the earth’s chronicles, where the existence of humans is just a single era and layer in future sediments to come.
Production Year
2024
Duration
00:23:03
Tyyppi
Asiasana
16 mm films, birth, caves, change, chaos, consciousness (mental properties), darkness, depth, ending (passive), evolution, experimental films, fire, ice, land, landscape, light, media art, memory (cognition), mountains, mythology, myths, origin, rocks (landforms), sediments, stones and rocks
Original Title
Geopsyche
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Sound
Yes
Cast
Saara Ekström (Author), Saara Ekström (Cinematographer), Aleksandra Slyz (Composer), Saara Ekström (Director), Eero Tammi (Editor), Saara Ekström / Phantasma (Producer), Koneen säätiö (Funder), AVEK (Funder)
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Saara Ekström works in film, photography, text and installation. Chronotopes where time and place densify, time that nurtures and erodes, the ambivalent desire to both remember and forget are at the core of her art. Ekström’s work has been shown extensively in various museums and festivals in Europe, the Americas and Asia. She received the State Prize for Visual Arts in 2023, the Finnish media art prize AVEK Award in 2018 and the prizes of SW Finland in 2017, Finnish Art Society in 1995 and the Aboa prize in 1994. She has been the Helsinki Festival Artist in 2005 and was nominated for both Ars Fennica and Carnegie Art Award prizes in 2010.
16 works