Routemaster

Pohjola Ilppo

Routemaster is a montage of rhythmically organised repetitions and involves an abstraction of motion that increases in frequency and scale. The basic framework of the film is provided by intercutting two counterposed sets of materials. On the one hand, it uses black-and-white, endlessly accelerating and rhythmically varying images of the inexorable forward motion of the racing cars. On the other hand, it uses colorfull, extreme slow-motion images of details of a chequered flag fluttering in the wind. The escalating speed, growing abstraction and mosaic-like repetition of images leads on to manipulated, yet realistic images of human bodies used in crash tests. In the end, all that is left is the black-and-white flash of speed, the gyrating pulse of the mosaic, the details of the human bodies and the intense soundtrack. Routemaster has some of the qualities of a live concert.

Production Year
2000
Duration
00:16:10
Tyyppi
Asiasana
Original Title
Routemaster
Finnish Title
Routemaster
English Title
Routemaster
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Aspect Ratio
Other
Sound
No
Cast
Ilppo Pohjola (Author), Ilppo Pohjola (Cinematographer), Ilppo Pohjola (Director), Heikki Salo (Editor), Kristallisilmä Oy (Producer), Jim McKee (Sound)
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Ilppo Pohjola is an artist and filmmaker based in Helsinki, Finland. He studied at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, USA and at Sheridan College in Toronto, Canada. He graduated from Harrow College of Higher Education in London, UK in 1988. Pohjola has made a number of awarded films, videos and multimedia installations, which have been shown internationally in museum, galleries, cinemas, on TV and at over 100 film festivals, and acquired to private and public collections. He has also works as a designer, photographer and cinematographer.