Lasso

Tykkä Salla

A woman sees a powerful man behind the window. Lasso exposes a moment in a young woman's life; moment at which one's inability to face the other – or oneself, even – is squeezed into a powerful sensation somewhere on the edge of the unreal.

Production Year
2000
Duration
00:03:55
Tyyppi
Asiasana
Original Title
Lasso
Finnish Title
Lasso
English Title
Lasso
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Aspect Ratio
Other
Sound
Yes
Cast
Salla Tykkä (Author), Salla Tykkä (Director), Salla Tykkä (Editor), Aino Halonen (Producer), Salla Tykkä (Script), Saija Lentonen (Actor), Tuomo Aho (Actor)
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Salla Tykkä lives and works in Helsinki. She has been working with photography, video and film since 1996. Her work mainly deals with audiovisual memory and the power structures within the everyday visual narratives. Her works have been seen in various solo and group exhibitions in Finland and abroad. Tykkä’s films have also been shown at international film festivals. Her short film Giant won the Canon Tiger Award for Short Film at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014. Tykkä received the AVEK Award for Media Art in 2016.