Niin oli minunkin laitani – an exchange of letters
Saloranta Elina
This piece presents a kind of early 1900s MeToo conversation. The soundtrack consists of two letters written by the singer Elli Forssell-Rozentāle (1871–1943) and her sister, the violinist Anna Forssell (1882–1970). The image track features portraits of the sisters seen through a veil of clouds, which were filmed on 16 mm.
Production Year
2022
Duration
00:06:59
Tyyppi
Asiasana
Original Title
Niin oli minunkin laitani – an exchange of letters
Finnish Title
Niin oli minunkin laitani – an exchange of letters
English Title
Niin oli minunkin laitani – an exchange of letters
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Elina Saloranta (Author), Elina Saloranta (Cinematographer), Elina Saloranta (Director), Elina Saloranta (Editor), Elina Saloranta (Script), Tatu Virtamo (Sound Design)
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Elina Saloranta
Born: 1968
Elina Saloranta is a Helsinki-based artist, who works mainly with the moving image. In her doctoral thesis Genre pictures and experiments in writing, she explored the interaction between image, word and sound, and in her postdoc research she engages in correspondence with the past. Saloranta is also known for her photographic work Nun, which was shown in the ARS 2011 exhibition in Kiasma. She studied film at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA 2001), and her video pieces have been shown in festivals like Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, Love & Anarchy (Helsinki International Film Festival) and Oberhausen Film Festival (2006).
15 works