On the Threshold of Liberty

Tikka Heidi

The film examines the experience of a breakdown of one's own language. It is a record of personal struggle in trying to construct meaning as an outsider in a foreign culture. However, it could also be seen as an effort to understand the nature of the paradoxical expectations a female filmmaker is likely to encounter.

Production Year
1991
Duration
00:10:35
Tyyppi
Asiasana
Original Title
On the Threshold of Liberty
English Title
On the Threshold of Liberty
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
Yes
Cast
Heidi Tikka (Author), Heidi Tikka (Director)
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Heidi Tikka is a visual artist based in Helsinki. She works on context and site-specific installations that often involve participatory processes. Her works inquire into the interfaces between humans and information systems and they often place the spectator in a performative, embodied relation with the work. In her artistic research Heidi Tikka investigates what kinds of ontological questions emerge when interactive media art installations are made accountable as technical systems and heterogenous networks of production. She works as a writer and a lecturer and is a doctorate candidate at the Department of Media, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Tikka graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an MFA in 1992.