The Flowers of Kola Peninsula
Helander Marja
The Flowers of Kola peninsula is a single channel video composed of still photos and time lapse footage. The imagery consists of overlapping images portraying the industrial landscape of the Kola peninsula and dried flowers picked from the same locations. In addition, the work includes images of plants from the old herbarium that belonged to artist’s father.
Production Year
2014
Duration
00:02:43
Tyyppi
Asiasana
death, dried flowers, drying, environment, environmental issues, factories, flower (parts of plants), flowers (plants), industry, Kola peninsula, landscape, life, media art, Mining, natural landscape, nature, peninsulas, pollutants, Sami culture, sami language, Sami native region, smoke, video art
Original Title
Kuolan kukat
English Title
The Flowers of Kola Peninsula
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Sound
Yes
Cast
Marja Helander (Author), Marja Helander (Cinematographer), Marja Helander (Director), Marja Helander (Editor), Marja Helander (Producer), Marja Helander (Script), Tapani Rinne (Sound Design)
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Marja Helander
Born: 1965
Marja Helander (b.1965) is a Finnish photographic and video artist. She graduated from the University of Art and Design in Helsinki in 1999. Her earlier work explored her own identity between the Finnish and the Sámi culture. Helander’s recent photographic work has focused on Northern landscape. The accent of the work is on the postcolonial topics in the Sámi area, focusing particularly on the global mining industry. The encounter between nature and mankind is not harmonious, but destructive. On the other hand, her video works are playful, exploring the contradiction between the traditional Sámi way of life and the modern society. Her recent short film Birds in the Earth won the Risto Jarva Prize and the main prize of the National Competition at Tampere Film Festival 2018. Marja Helander has participated in solo and group exhibitions and her works have been acquired for various public collections in Finland and abroad.
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