Infatuation with the Never Ending Past
Ala-Ketola Kristoffer
Ala-Ketola combines vignettes of his personal life with constructed studio imagery to portray a queer journey which juxtaposes the personal and shared, symbolist and documentative, directed and intuitive, archived and edited.
Production Year
2022
Duration
00:20:00
Tyyppi
Asiasana
archiving, autofiction, consciousness (mental objects), experimental films, friends, friendship, I, identity (mental objects), joy, life, montage, queer films, visions (prospects)
Original Title
Infatuation with the Never Ending Past
English Title
Infatuation with the Never Ending Past
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Sound
No
Cast
Kristoffer Ala-Ketola (Author), Kristoffer Ala-Ketola (Cinematographer), Mikael Ala-Ketola (Composer), Kristoffer Ala-Ketola (Editor), Kristoffer Ala-Ketola (Producer), Kristoffer Ala-Ketola (Script), Kristoffer Ala-Ketola (Sound Design), Mikael Ala-Ketola (Sound Design), Kristoffer Ala-Ketola (Director), Solstice Festival (Funder)
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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.