Glitter Stories
Anna-Mari Nousiainen
What is video art? "Glitter, melted plastic, kaleidoscopes, colors and psychedelia", young women answer. Glitter Stories drew inspiration from young women between the ages of 17 to 24. Their responses formed a twisted world of it's own, where girls' objects become symbols, lucky charms and sometimes millstones; women turn against themselves and each other in throes of the brutal change. The altar built by others must be destroyed in order to build one's own, to be reborn.
Production Year
2015
Duration
00:06:51
Type
Genre
Tags
abstract objects,
body image,
identity (mental objects),
performance (art forms),
symbolism,
video art,
women
Original Title
Glitter Stories
English Title
Glitter Stories
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Sound
Yes
Cast
Anna-Mari Nousiainen (Author), Anna-Mari Nousiainen (Cinematographer), Anna-Mari Nousiainen (Director), Anna-Mari Nousiainen (Editor), Anna-Mari Nousiainen (Script), Anna-Mari Nousiainen (Sound Design), Anna-Mari Nousiainen (Actor), Verna Tervaharju (Actor), Anna Björklund (Actor), Valtteri Piira (Assistant)
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Anna-Mari Nousiainen
Born: 1991
Anna-Mari Nousiainen (b.1991) lives in Helsinki and works mainly in rural Finland. She is an artist and a filmmaker whose works often take place in forests and fields, outside cities. Nousiainen graduated from Tampere University of Applied Sciences where she studied cinematography and arts. Her works have been shown at various festivals and exhibitions. Nousiainen’s experimental films balance between delightful and disgusting. Creamy pastels turn into slime, falling teeth are in fact crystals, sweet girls paint their faces with blood. Everything is association. Dreams, warped memories and actual events merge into one – lines blur and dreams shift into reality. Every memory is equally important, whether it is true or false.
8 works