The Mystical Spouse
Luhta Jenni
The Mystical Spouse portraits artistic process as form of ritual. Located at an art residency, in Utö Island in Finland, the video narrates the many stages and the motifs of the ritual and their transformation into the self-portrait character, a femininity goddess, the Mystical Spouse.
Production Year
2014
Duration
00:25:25
Tyyppi
Asiasana
anxiety, art, creativity, experimental films, landscape, love, mysticism, personal narrative, rituals, singing, spirituality
Original Title
Mystinen puoliso
English Title
The Mystical Spouse
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Jenni Luhta (Author), Jenni Luhta (Cinematographer), Jenni Luhta (Composer), Jenni Luhta (Director), Jenni Luhta (Editor)
Press Photos
Jenni Luhta (née Markkanen) is a Helsinki-based visual artist and filmmaker who graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2012. Under the name Jenni Markkanen, she became known for her autobiographical videos, installations and performance art works. Since 2015, she has been working together with her husband Lauri Luhta. At the moment, they concentrate on making full-length, visual-cinematic videos on ambitious intellectual historical topics.