A letter from Liisi
Saloranta Elina
The video is based on a letter from April 17, 1912. On that same day, there was a solar eclipse, which the letter writer is preparing to view through coloured glass. While waiting for the eclipse, she recalls her brother who has recently been “released from the world”. On the image track we see astronomical glass plates combined with intimate family photos.
Production Year
2021
Duration
00:07:52
Tyyppi
Asiasana
Original Title
Kirje Liisiltä
English Title
A letter from Liisi
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Elina Saloranta (Author), Elina Saloranta (Cinematographer), Elina Saloranta (Director), Elina Saloranta (Editor), Elina Saloranta (Producer), Tatu Virtamo (Sound Design), Suomen Kulttuurirahasto (Funder), AVEK (Funder)
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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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