A Flagellate Searching for Love
Pukki Leena
A Flagellate Searching for Love captures slime mold moving along symbols of love, diagrams of reproductive cells, and signs of gender. Its themes include the search for love, relationships, sex, and reproduction. The film explores the mechanisms of falling in love, as well as love and sexual attraction. It suggests that these aspects of life occur at the cellular level. What really happens when a very charming cellular formation appears? Is love a biological process based on finding compatible cells?
Production Year
2024
Duration
00:10:40
Tyyppi
Asiasana
animation, experimental art, falling in love, gender, infatuation, media art, myxomycetes, pheromones, protozoa, secretions, sexuality
Original Title
Parveiluitiö etsii rakkautta
Finnish Title
Parveiluitiö etsii rakkautta
English Title
A Flagellate Searching for Love
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Leena Pukki (Author), Leena Pukki (Cinematographer), Leena Pukki (Composer), Leena Pukki (Director), Leena Pukki (Editor), Leena Pukki (Script), Leena Pukki (Sound Design), Taiteen edistämiskeskus (Funder), AVEK (Funder), Iiris Laisi (Voice Over), Jussi-Pekka Koivisto (Voice Over), Timo Mäkynen (Voice Over), Teo Ala-Ruona (Voice Over)
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Leena Pukki (b. 1984) is a visual artist whose work explores interspecies relations, history, alternative realities, colors, and unicellular organisms. Her practice ranges from media art to large-scale wall paintings, bio art, and installations. Pukki earned an MA in Art from Aalto University in 2015 and a BA from the Lahti Art Institute in 2007.