What There Is to See

Kokko Jaana

'What There Is to See' is a chain of associations of sorts. The film could ask, for example: How would the urban landscape look like, if our decisions would be based on touch, sound, temperature or air pressure instead of visual appearance? The starting point for the film is the pioneer of romantic landscape painting, Caspar David Friedrich, a white European man. The romantic landscape era, followed by nationalist and colonialist landscapes, is examined in the film for instance through a French children's book Babar by Jean de Brunoff. In the true spirit of colonialism, Babar the Elephant presents us a utopian city in a civilized country. These two key parts of the composition are viewed against the background of a new residential area in Jätkäsaari, Helsinki and they form the basis of the story. Actors in the film are from the Theatre of Visually Impared people.

Production Year
2017
Duration
00:24:00
Tyyppi
Asiasana
Original Title
Mitä on Nähdä
Finnish Title

Mitä on Nähdä

English Title

What There Is to See

Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Jaana Kokko (Author), Jarkko Virtanen (Cinematographer), Jaana Kokko (Director), Jaana Kokko (Editor), Joose Ojala (Music), Riikka Hänninen (Music), Jaana Kokko (Script), Joose Ojala (Actor), Markus Tihumäki (Actor), Marianne Tenhami (Actor), Riikka Hänninen (Actor), Anniina Latikka (Actor), Jari Gusev (Actor), Jaakko Rinne (Color Grading), Taiteen edistämiskeskus (Funder), AVEK (Funder), Koneen säätiö (Funder), Joonatan Hietanen (Recordist), Samy Kramer (Sound Design)
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Jaana Kokko is an artist, filmmaker, teacher and occasional curator based in Helsinki. In her practice, she is now in the search of the common: the emergent need for the change that is starting from our practices of art making, learning and being together. Currently she is working with two bodies of films both located in the peripheries, trying to shift the gaze to the outskirts of the sight and hear. Her work has been exhibited e.g. at the Lithuanian National Gallery in Vilnius, Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga, Tallinn Art Hall, Helsinki Art Hall, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Joensuu Art Museum in Finland, Lappeenranta Art Museum in Finland, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Tampere Film Festival and Tokyo Media Art Festival. She is and has been teaching and lecturing e.g. at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Turku Art Academy, Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn, Latvian Academy of Arts, Riga and Akademie der Bildende Künste, Nürnberg.