Daily Bread
Sassi Pekka
I keep repeating slogans from TV commercials to the camera. Sad and oppressing music roars in the background. Every now and then the rhythm of the images is broken by an image of a catastrophe.
Production Year
1997
Duration
00:02:11
Tyyppi
Asiasana
advertisements, black humour, catastrophes, commercialism, cries, disasters, experimental films, global, globalisation, grief, insanity, media, performance (art forms), schizophrenia, slogans, television (mass media), world citizenship
Original Title
Jokapäiväinen leipä
Finnish Title
Jokapäiväinen leipä
English Title
Daily Bread
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
No
Cast
Pekka Sassi (Author), Pekka Sassi (Director)
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Pekka Sassi
Born: 1969
Pekka Sassi (b. 1969) is a Helsinki-based artist whose output consists of experimental sound and video works, many of which are purely sound pieces and audio installations. Sassi’s works are characterised by creative integration of simple, and sometimes random, audial and visual worlds detected in the surrounding world. He is a wide-ranging, yet uncompromising artist. His works have been presented at several domestic and foreign festivals and he was awarded the annual AVEK Prize for audio-visual art in 2006 and the Best film in European Media Art Festival, Osnabrücke 2010.
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