The Great Lake
Lassila Nina
We are walking down a path towards a lake. A voiceover describes the situation, over and over again. We hear about a person's effort to connect to this place. The camera turns to the drunk protagonist and the voiceover criticizes her.
Production Year
2010
Duration
00:07:12
Tyyppi
Asiasana
alcohol (beverage), appraisal, beauty, description, documentary films, drunkenness, emotions, experimental films, lakes, landscape, memories (mental objects), nature, night, paths, personal narrative, philosophy, self-criticism, summer, trees, water
Original Title
The Great Lake
Finnish Title
The Great Lake
English Title
The Great Lake
Dialogue
Yes
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
Yes
Cast
Nina Lassila (Author), Nina Lassila (Director)
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Nina Lassila is a visual artist born 1974 in Helsinki, Finland currently living and working in Belgium. Nina Lassila works mainly with video and performance. In many of her works she deals with questions of identity – specifically identity affected by social barriers, conventions based on gender and upbringing and cultural differences. In addition, she is interested in exploring issues such as supernatural phenomena, art and economic structures. She has participated in several international group shows and video festivals. Education: Swedish Polytechnics FIN 1994-1997, School of Photography & film Gothenburg SE 2000-2002, Valand School of Fine Arts Gothenburg SE (MFA) 2004-2006, Guest student at ENSAD Paris 2009.
19 works