Sentences
Pietiläinen Jaakko
Sentences is a 20-minute architectural journey into the labyrinthine interiors of late capitalism. The film follows the POV of its protagonist on their passage through an endless building complex. By its vast, chaotic and eclectic setting, Sentences immerses the viewer into a state of constant liminality. The film studies dissociation and disorientation in a contemporary world devoid of an imaginable exterior to the current state of affairs. Drawing on the aesthetics of computer games, at times eerily realistic, Sentences also touches on the ambiguity of the photographic representation in a time of an increasingly automated image production.
Production Year
2023
Duration
00:20:00
Tyyppi
Asiasana
3D animation, anxiety, architecture, buildings, constructed enviroment, depression, indoor spaces, labyrinths, liminality, travelogues (literature), voyages
Original Title
Sentences
English Title
Sentences
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Sound
Yes
Cast
Jaakko Pietiläinen (Author), Jaakko Pietiläinen (Cinematographer), Claudio Monteverdi (Composer), Jaakko Pietiläinen (Director), Jaakko Pietiläinen (Editor), Jaakko Pietiläinen (Producer), Jaakko Pietiläinen (Script), Tatu Nenonen (Sound Design), Taiteen edistämiskeskus (Funder), AVEK (Funder)
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Jaakko Pietiläinen is a Helsinki-based artist working cross disciplinarily between visual arts, performance and contemporary dance and theatre, utilising different materials and media, ranging from video to spatial interventions. Pietiläinen’s works are often site and/or situation specific, operating in an interplay of the factual (or the real) and fictional narratives. Pietiläinen is interested in the technological infrastructures of contemporary cultures, how they subtly reshape realities and how they malfunction and create novel, uncanny aesthetic distortions. Lately he has been working with architectural thematics. Some of his latest works include a permanent public sculpture ‘Invited Guests’ to Nikkilä, Sipoo (2019), a solo exhibition ‘Housing Fair’ at gallery Sorbus (2018), Helsinki and a collective performance ‘PET’ in Kiasma, Helsinki 2017.