Related to glory

Estarriola Anna

Humans search for ways to reach some kind of renown, praise, honour or immortality, through physical and intellectual achievements. The need for glory can be powerful and in order to obtain it many undertake tasks with great effort, risk and sacrifice. This exhibition of media art installations includes visionary contemplations and speculations on how some divine things could work, in both hyperrealistic and altered proportions. The installations reflect on how intimate and universal topics are perceived and categorized, on mankind's desires to embrace and conduct reality, as well as on one's limited power and helplessness.As a collection of short stories, "Related to Glory" is composed through a set of self-contained scenes, which wonder and react timeless concerns such as the search for ultimate meaning, the pursuit of gratification, the sense of curiosity, the inevitability of isolation and the inescapability of death. 

Production Year
2015
Tyyppi
Asiasana
Original Title
Related to glory
Finnish Title

Related to Glory

English Title

Related to glory

Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Anna Estarriola (Author), Jukka Kiistala (Cinematographer), Paco Bouazza (Cinematographer), Anna Estarriola (Director), Anna Estarriola (Editor), Anna Estarriola (Music), Anna Estarriola (Script), Taiteen edistämiskeskus (Funder), Suomen Kulttuurirahasto (Funder), Frame Contemporary Art Finland (Funder), Helsingin kaupunki (Funder), Anna Estarriola (Performer), Mercé Maña (Performer), Anna Estarriola (Sound Design), Kristian Ekholm (Sound Design), Kristian Ekholm (Sound Recording), Michael Garner (Voice Over), Amber Lynd (Voice Over), Elina Vainio (Voice Over), Oliver Whitehead (Voice Over), Jonathan Fraser Phillips (Voice Over), Alexandra Lochore (Voice Over)
Anna Estarriola (b. 1980 in Catalonia) has lived and worked in Helsinki since 2004. Estarriola holds MFA degrees from the University of Barcelona (2004) and the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts (2009), and she has also studied contemporary dance. In 2015 Estarriola received the AVEK Prize for media art. In her work, Estarriola is interested in the exchanges and interactions between the visual and media arts with other disciplines, such as dance, performing arts and technology. The themes of her work evolve around perception of reality, emotions, individual and communal behavior, and communication.