Christmas Mystery

Erkki Kurenniemi

Christmas Mystery is Kurenniemi’s only scripted short film. In this farce, Kurenniemi and his friends present an ad lib interpretation of the Christmas Evangelium, starting from the Immaculate Conception and ending with the Three Wise Men studying the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Kurenniemi himself plays the Infant Jesus, who is born with ski goggles and lights a joint.

Production Year
1969
Duration
00:03:00
Type
Genre
Tags
Original Title
Joulumysteeri
English Title

Christmas Mystery

Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Sound
No
Cast
Erkki Kurenniemi (Author), Erkki Kurenniemi (Director), Meri Vennamo (Actor), Paavo Lehtonen (Actor), Frederik Lagus (Actor), Sini Lehtonen (Actor), Sisko Ramsay (Actor), Erkki Kurenniemi (Actor)
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Erkki Kurenniemi

Born: 1941

Erkki Kurenniemi (b. 1941) is a pioneer of Finnish electronic music. His projects and works anticipate in many ways the revolutionary impact of computers on both society and personal lives. Between 1964–70 Kurenniemi shot a number of short experimental 16mm films, part of which were later combined with his electronic music from the same era. In the short films, the futuristic fascination towards computers and electronics meets the sensuality of the organic details such as plants and insects. Some of Kurenniemi’s films are also exciting and unique documents about the 1960s underground youth having fun in Helsinki.