As If It Was (True)

Kokko Jaana

A single channel video about Romantic heroism. 'As if it was (true)' consists of five fragments. The first fragment is a metaphor and an approach to explain the macroeconomic system of the society in both Eastern and Western Finland in the 1970s. The next four parts operate in the microeconomic field. The spoken text consists of a dialogue between a man and a woman. The woman speaks Finnish, the man repeats the text in Russian.

Production Year
2005
Duration
00:04:50
Tyyppi
Asiasana
Original Title
Niin kuin se olisi (totta)
Finnish Title
Niin kuin se olisi (totta)
English Title
As If It Was (True)
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Aspect Ratio
16:9
Sound
Yes
Cast
Jaana Kokko (Author), Jaana Kokko (Cinematographer), Jaana Kokko (Director), Jaana Kokko (Editor), Jaana Kokko (Script), Eeva Putro (Actor), Sleipnir (Funder), VISEK (Funder), Elina Mikkilä (Translator), Ulla-Riikka Koskela (Voice Over), Alexander Lackmann (Voice Over)
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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.