Infantasy
Ala-Ketola Kristoffer
Infantasy is an audiovisual meditation on the semiotic connections between rest, work, death, and liminal space. The work seeks to describe the loss of consciousness, exhaustion, inactivity, exertion, the artistic process, and the interstices of these concepts with a dreamlike logic. Pillows and blankets equate to snow and falling asleep seems like a break from reality.
Production Year
2021
Duration
00:13:33
Tyyppi
Asiasana
communication, death, dreams (sleeping), experimental films, languages, life, liminality, nature, psychoanalysis, psychology, queer films, queer studies, rest, semiotics, snow
Original Title
Infantasy
English Title
Infantasy
Production Countries
Finland,United States
Dialogue
No
Sound
Yes
Cast
Kristoffer Ala-Ketola (Author), Kristoffer Ala-Ketola (Cinematographer), AJ Fusco (Composer), Kristoffer Ala-Ketola (Director), Kristoffer Ala-Ketola (Producer), Kristoffer Ala-Ketola (Script), Kristoffer Ala-Ketola (Sound Design), Kristoffer Ala-Ketola (Actor), Kristoffer Ala-Ketola (Reader)
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Kristoffer Ala-Ketola
Born: 1991
Kristoffer Ala-Ketola (1991) graduated from Yale School of Art in 2019, and he works with moving image, sculpture, painting, and installation. His works have been shown in Shin Gallery in New York, Kunsthalle Helsinki, and other exhibitions around Europe and the United States. His video works have been shown for example in Helsinki International Film Festival and Video Art Festival Turku. Ala-Ketola's practice communicates culturally shared affects and meditates on current politics, the psyche, behaviour, and the structures of culture.