Magdaleena
Mikkola Elian
As a patient, a captive in her own inner life, Magdaleena succesfully resists her psychiatrist. The confrontation, filmed in split screen, is less an actual case study than a metaphorical story, based on the filmmaker's personal experience of being looked at as the 'other' because they live and perform outside the binary gender norm.
Production Year
2019
Duration
00:14:21
Tyyppi
Asiasana
Original Title
Magdaleena
Production Countries
Canada,Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Elian Mikkola (Author), Matthew Ripplinger (Cinematographer), Elian Mikkola (Cinematographer), Elian Mikkola (Director), Elian Mikkola (Editor), University of Regina (Producer), Elian Mikkola (Script), Reid Miranda (Script), Elian Mikkola (Sound Design), Aksa Korttila (Actor), Irwin Kathleen (Actor), Jaime Williams (Actor), Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative (Funder)
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Elian Mikkola is a Finnish Moving Image Artist (of Karelian descent), and a white settler currently based between Treaty 4, Regina, and Montréal (Tiohtià:ke), Canada. Originally from Turku, Finland, Mikkola holds a BA in Journalism from Tampere University. They completed their MFA in Media Production in 2019 at the University of Regina. Mikkola works closely with both analog and digital images and their hybrid extensions. Their work explores themes such as memory, spatial dependences and queer belonging. Mikkola’s work has been showcased in several film festivals in Canada and internationally. Their debut film SAARI (2016) was selected to TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival student program in 2017 and their latest two films premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020 and Hong Kong International Film Festival in 2021. Mikkola has been a part of La Lumière Collective based in Montréal and a current board member of the Queer City Cinema.