Underdog
Levlin Marjo
Underdog is an experimental documentary exploring the worlds of dogs and people. Filmed in black and white, it reflects on the filmmaker’s childhood experiences with social class and culture, drawing parallels between the selective breeding of pedigree dogs and the complexities of life in a diverse world.
Production Year
2024
Duration
00:30:00
Tyyppi
Asiasana
adoption, agricultural exhibitions, alcoholism, amateurs (enthusiasts), american bulldog, american identity, animal breeding, animal rights, animal welfare, anomalies, archives (memory organisations), aryans, books, cages, care services, cine cameras, competitions, conceptions, contemporary criticism, databases, documentation, dog, dog shows, ethnic cleansings, eugenics, euthanasia, evaluation, evaluators, exposure, feeling of inferiority, Finland-Swedishness, Finnish identity, genetics, hierarchy, history, holocaust, homeless persons, intellectual disabilities, intellectual history, intelligentsia, judges, kennels, linguistic identity, living abroad, market economy, medicines, middle class, migration, mining towns, national socialism, nationality, negatives (photographs), perceptions (mental objects), periods of time, persecutions, pet shops, pets, photographs, population, population transfers, poverty, prison camps, pseudoscience, racial theories, standards, status, submission, thinking, timidity, trade fairs, traits of character, traumas, value creation, values (conceptions), veterinary medicine, violence (activity), wars, well-being, wolf, working class, x-ray examination, zoologists
Original Title
Underdog
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Marjo Levlin (Author), Marjo Levlin (Cinematographer), Marjo Levlin (Director), Marjo Levlin (Editor), Marjo Levlin (Producer), Marjo Levlin (Script), Johanna Storm (Sound Design), Taiteen edistämiskeskus (Funder), AVEK (Funder), Föreningen Konstsamfundet (Funder)
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Marjo Levlin is an visual artist living and working in Helsinki. In her works, she contemplates both personal and universal themes, combining history and current phenomena. Originally a painter, Levlin now works mainly in installations and short films and often uses found and collected objects as the base for her art. In her latest works, archives, science and history has played an increasingly significant role. Levlin’s works have been presented in solo and group exhibitions as well as festivals since the mid-1990s in Finland and abroad. Marjo Levlin (b. 1966 Graz, Austria) studied in Finland at Vapaa Taidekoulu(1990-91), at Taidekoulu Maa(1992-96) and at the Academy of Fine Arts (2008-10) with a MA at the department of time and space/moving image.
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