The Grey Hour

Gelain Valentina

The film explores how our emotional relationship with nature reflects our inner states of mind. It reveals how landscapes can mirror our feelings and how we project our fears, hopes, and longings onto the environment. When the familiar begins to feel both safe and suffocating, and connections seem to fall apart, something else may be happening: boundaries blur, relationships shift, and even the sense of a solid body starts to dissolve

Production Year
2021
Duration
00:09:33
Tyyppi
Asiasana
Original Title
The Grey Hour
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Sound
Yes
Cast
Valentina Gelain (Author), Stefan Backas (Composer), Valentina Gelain (Director), Valentina Gelain (Editor), Jukka Rajala (Editor), Valentina Gelain (Script), Stefan Backas (Sound Design), Bekim Hasaj (Assistant), Jukka Rajala (Camera), Bekim Hasaj (Camera), Svensk-Österbottniska Samfundet (Funder), Svenska Kulturfonden (Funder)
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Valtine Gelain works with video, installation, site-specific art and poetry. Through subjective experience and introspection, Gelain investigates issues related to human existentialism drawing directly from the mental and emotional, symbolic and dreamlike sphere, often setting the work in rural and natural scenarios.