Porification (installation)

How does a strange town become a home? How’ve you been getting on in Pori? Porification is a video about moving, acclimatisation, knowing and being known, and giving up things. It is divided into eight episodes. The images show a deserted town, an empty flat, tranquil seashore, a festival ground after the party. There is only an expanse of flat spaces. Nothing nor anyone familiar. In the monologues, the man tells about installing wallpapers, shopping the groceries, biking, repairing a car, joining a sports club. The events are connected by the experience of a new living environment and of an altered social network. The man suffers from the hypochondria of loneliness, but breathes freely again when he gets help for real pains.