The Rider
Sassi Pekka
A mysterious rider with the test image for video signal. The dramaturgy is stripped down to image and sound.
Production Year
2001
Duration
00:05:08
Tyyppi
Genre
Asiasana
abstraction, bass voice, colours, experimental films, fairy tales, fear (emotions), horse riding, magic, monologues, personal narrative, reading, sounds, storms, story, supernatural creatures, villages, Wild West
Original Title
Ratsastaja
Finnish Title
Ratsastaja
English Title
The Rider
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
Yes
Cast
Pekka Sassi (Author), Pekka Sassi (Director)
Press Photos
Pekka Sassi
Born: 1969
Pekka Sassi (b. 1969) is a Helsinki-based artist whose output consists of experimental sound and video works, many of which are purely sound pieces and audio installations. Sassi’s works are characterised by creative integration of simple, and sometimes random, audial and visual worlds detected in the surrounding world. He is a wide-ranging, yet uncompromising artist. His works have been presented at several domestic and foreign festivals and he was awarded the annual AVEK Prize for audio-visual art in 2006 and the Best film in European Media Art Festival, Osnabrücke 2010.
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