Starwars
Suoniemi Minna
Two boys fight with paper roll swords in the school corridor. The fight is playful, but the hits seem hard, more serious. The video is played backwards in slow motion. The unnatural effect makes the act look like an imaginary game becoming real.
Production Year
2002
Duration
00:02:25
Tyyppi
Asiasana
battles, experimental films, fencing, humour, men, performance (art forms), plays and games, slow motion, swords, teenagers, violence (activity), weapons
Original Title
Starwars
English Title
Starwars
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
Yes
Cast
Minna Suoniemi (Author), Minna Suoniemi (Director), Jussi Herlin (Cast), Niko Kalliojärvi (Cast)
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Minna Suoniemi (b. 1972) is a Helsinki-based artist working with moving image and video installation. She's interested in how disruption and failure can make normative structures and models visible and has worked on loaded subjects such as gender roles, motherhood and power relations. She has exhibited internationally in Europe, United States, South America and Asia including Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki, Preus Museum of Photography in Norway, 2nd International Festival for Photography and Video in Seoul and Moscow Biennial for young art, and her work is in Collections of major Finnish Art Museums. Suoniemi is a member of The Finnish State audiovisual Art Committee and works as a lecturer in Aalto University, Department of Art.
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