He said we'd met in space and suggested we travel back together
Oja Milla-Kariina
He said we'd met in space and suggested we travel back together is a two-channel spatial video installation, centred on a man and a woman who seem to have been inserted into this multidimensional cinematic world. To be in the world is apparently to be on the brink of absurdity. The difference between real and choreographed, natural and unnatural, is not always clear. In this meditative work nature plays a key role setting the boundaries that enable our very existence, both as nature and in nature.
Production Year
2020
Duration
00:12:28
Tyyppi
Asiasana
encounter, existence, experimental films, fiction, human relations, installations (works of art), landscape, mountains, nature, relation to nature, rocks (landforms), symmetry
Original Title
Hän kertoi, että olimme tavanneet avaruudessa ja ehdotti yhteistä matkaa takaisin
Finnish Title
Hän kertoi, että olimme tavanneet avaruudessa ja ehdotti yhteistä matkaa takaisin
English Title
He said we'd met in space and suggested we travel back together
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Sound
Yes
Cast
Milla-Kariina Oja (Author), Milla-Kariina Oja (Cinematographer), Milla-Kariina Oja (Director), Milla-Kariina Oja (Editor), Milla-Kariina Oja (Script), Pelle Venetjoki (Sound Design), Taiteen edistämiskeskus (Funder), AVEK (Funder)
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Milla-Kariina Oja (s.1976) is a visual artist based in Helsinki who works with photography and moving image. Her practice is particularly focused on video installations, which combine both the experimental and the performative. The themes of her works arise in response to basic questions of existence, such as how human beings inhabit the world and the built environment, and engage with nature and its cycles. Oja has studied photography and contemporary art in Manchester Metropolitan University, and in the universities of Castilla-La Mancha, and Barcelona. Oja’s works have been exhibited throughout Europe and China, notably in The Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Beijing, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, and Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova museum of contemporary art in Turku, Finland.