Leda&friends

Pathirane Sara

In the choreography for video Leda & friends two bird-like ones have landed on the realm of the poet Sappho on the island of Lesbos. It shows a world where bird-like ones cherish dreams, dance together with nature, love and preserve life, and brood a shared mystery: a hyacinth-coloured egg discovered by Leda. The soundscape layers Sappho's poems into whispers from timelessness and space in the oral tradition of lyric poetry.

Production Year
2023
Duration
00:09:36
Tyyppi
Asiasana
Original Title
Leda&friends
English Title

Leda&friends

Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Sara Pathirane (Author), Laura Pietiläinen (Cinematographer), Sara Pathirane (Cinematographer), Sirja Puurtinen (Composer), Laura Pietiläinen (Director), Sara Pathirane (Director), Sara Pathirane (Editor), Sara Pathirane (Producer), Laura Pietiläinen (Producer), Laura Pietiläinen (Script), Sara Pathirane (Script), Sirja Puurtinen (Sound Design), Sara Pathirane (Actor), Laura Pietiläinen (Actor), Taiteen edistämiskeskus (Funder), AVEK (Funder)
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Sara Pathirane

Born: 1985

Sara Pathirane’s work deals with the tradition of landscape painting and the problematics of taking a picture. As shooting locations for her videos she uses nature areas known from movies and paintings, shifting between the everyday and the fiction. She works with video, painting and live-installations. Pathirane lives and works in Helsinki. She has studied in the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and Accademia Albertina in Torino. Her works have been shown for example at Taiga-Space, Saint-Petersburg (2016), Colombo Art Biennale (2016) and Kiasma (2010, 2013).