The Lovers' Bed
Saloranta Elina
'The Lovers' Bed' is based on Marguerite Duras' novel 'The North China Lover'. The artist collected quotations from the book and created a new collage based on the re-edited text.
Production Year
2004
Duration
00:18:35
Tyyppi
Asiasana
books, children (age groups), citations, collages, experimental films, human relations, love, personal narrative
Original Title
Le lit des amants
Finnish Title
Rakastavaisten vuode
English Title
The Lovers' Bed
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
Yes
Cast
Elina Saloranta (Author), Elina Saloranta (Director), Vilma Putro (Cast), Elina Saloranta (Cast)
Press Photos
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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