Life As It Flees
Jokiranta Rita
The work is a multichannel video installation that can only be seen as episodic fragments. The installation is inspired by a short story "The Adventure of a Photographer" by Italo Calvino, and the title, referring to the difficulty of catching the real life in images, is a quotation from the short story.
Production Year
2017
Duration
00:28:00
Tyyppi
Asiasana
architecture, conceptual art, dance (performing arts), experimental films, life, media art, memories (mental objects), nature, night, passengers, reality, searchlights, seas, time, towns and cities, urban landscape, video art, video installations, voyages, windows
Original Title
Life As It Flees
Finnish Title
Life As It Flees
English Title
Life As It Flees
Production Countries
Finland,United States,France,Sweden
Dialogue
No
Sound
Yes
Cast
Rita Jokiranta (Author), Rita Jokiranta (Cinematographer), Rita Jokiranta (Director), Rita Jokiranta (Editor), Rita Jokiranta (Producer), Rita Jokiranta (Script), Rita Jokiranta (Sound Design), AVEK (Funder)
Press Photos
Rita Jokiranta mainly works with multichannel video installations and photography. Her art frequently explores the dynamic between image, event and interpretation. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, events and film festivals in Finland and widely elsewhere in Europe and the United States.
8 works