Towards An Architect
Hannu Karjalainen
A French architect designed a modern prison for "happy" convicts in the 1960s Paris. After the concept turned out to be an unsuccessful utopia, disillusioned ex-convicts came back to seek revenge against the architect.
Production Year
2010
Duration
00:05:20
Type
Genre
Tags
architecture and urban space,
body image,
paints,
performance (art forms),
portraits (works of art ),
prisons
Original Title
Towards An Architect
Finnish Title
Towards An Architect
English Title
Towards An Architect
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Sound
No
Cast
Hannu Karjalainen (Author), Hannu Karjalainen (Director), AVEK - The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture (Funder)
Press Photos
Hannu Karjalainen is an internationally acclaimed Finnish artist who lives and works in Helsinki. He graduated as MFA from the University of Industrial Arts Helsinki in 2005. His video and sound installations and films have been presented in museums, galleries and festivals since 2003 and he has held solo exhibitions participated in numerous group exhibitions and film screenings in Finland and abroad in e.g. Oslo, Zürich and Berlin. He was selected as the Young Artist of the Year in 2009.
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