Kitchen Conversations
Saloranta Elina
'Kitchen Conversations' is a 13-minute dialogue, in which a woman asks a man what does love feel like. The visual material consists of two parallel scenes with shared soundtrack. In the time-space of the story, the left-hand image represents the current moment, the present. The embrace scene on the right, shot through the mirror, indicates a hypothetical progression – what might happen. Its mood is conditional. In speech acts, the conditional form is used to express hopes and daydreams. It is the tense of happy endings. In 'Kitchen Conversations' the parallelism of the two screens is an attempt “to speak in the conditional” with the language of the moving image.
Production Year
2006
Duration
00:13:14
Tyyppi
Asiasana
Original Title
Keittiökeskusteluja
Finnish Title
Keittiökeskusteluja
English Title
Kitchen Conversations
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
Yes
Cast
Elina Saloranta (Author), Elina Saloranta (Director), Juhani Rajalin (Actor), Mayreth Söderholm (Actor), AVEK (Funder), VISEK (Funder), Jorma Hinkka (Graphic Designer), Mika Niinimaa (Lighting), Mika Niinimaa (Sound), Michael Garner (Translator)
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Elina Saloranta
Born: 1968
Elina Saloranta is a Helsinki-based artist, who works mainly with the moving image. In her doctoral thesis Genre pictures and experiments in writing, she explored the interaction between image, word and sound, and in her postdoc research she engages in correspondence with the past. Saloranta is also known for her photographic work Nun, which was shown in the ARS 2011 exhibition in Kiasma. She studied film at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA 2001), and her video pieces have been shown in festivals like Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, Love & Anarchy (Helsinki International Film Festival) and Oberhausen Film Festival (2006).
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