Wallflower
Takala Pilvi
An overdressed girl tries her luck in dance events that are for Finnish tourists in a small Estonian health resort town, Pärnu.
Production Year
2006
Duration
00:11:00
Tyyppi
Asiasana
candid camera, dance (performing arts), dance films, Estonia, experimental films, gowns, infiltration (covert operations), loneliness, Pärnu, performance (art forms), schlager music, tourism, women
Original Title
Seinäruusu
Finnish Title
Seinäruusu
English Title
Wallflower
Production Countries
Finland,Estonia
Dialogue
No
Aspect Ratio
16:9
Sound
Yes
Cast
Pilvi Takala (Author), Pilvi Takala (Director), Juha Laatikainen (Camera), Hans Rosenström (Camera)
Press Photos
Pilvi Takala (b. 1981) lives and works between Berlin and Helsinki. Her video works are based on performative interventions in which she researches specific communities in order to process social structures and question the normative rules and truths of our behaviour in different contexts. Her works show that it is often possible to learn about the implicit rules of a social situation only by its disruption. Her work has been shown in MoMA PS1 and New Museum, Kiasma, Palais de Tokyo, Kunsthalle Basel, Manifesta 11, Witte de With, and the 9th Istanbul Biennial. Takala won the Dutch Prix de Rome in 2011 and the Emdash Award and Finnish State Prize for Visual Arts in 2013.
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