Green Land

Kokko Jaana

Green Land takes place in rural Latvia. Its key image – the gestalt of history – is a concrete sculpture by Rasma Bruzīte from 1952. Depicting a collective farm worker, it personifies both personal as well as state memory, in different ways. The main characters, former collective farm workers Irēna, Veronika and Lūcija, recount their experiences, offering us a glimpse of a bygone era and openly participating in the performance offered to them. The title of the film comes from the concept of a green, verdant land. It is also the title of a classic book by Latvian writer Andrejs Upīts, a Soviet-era epic to which the young literary scholar Arnis, has devoted his life to. Green Land is the second part of Kokko’s Baltic trilogy.

Production Year
2024
Duration
00:30:00
Tyyppi
Asiasana
Original Title
Vihreä maa
Finnish Title

Vihreä maa

English Title

Green Land

Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Jaana Kokko (Author), Jaana Kokko (Cinematographer), Jaana Kokko (Director), Jaana Kokko (Editor), Jaana Kokko (Producer), Jaana Kokko (Script), Lock Hans-Günter (Sound Design), Inta Balode (Actor), Agate Bankava (Actor), Ralfs Apritis (Actor), Agnese Bordjukova (Actor), Veronica Ābelīte (Actor), Pēteris Lorencs (Actor), Emils Apritis (Actor), Jaana Kokko (Actor), Antra Apritis (Actor), Terēze Zabarovska (Actor), Irēna Balode (Actor), Jānis Apritis (Actor), Lūcije Birzara (Actor), Arnis Koroševskis (Actor), Olga ja Vilho Linnamon säätiö (Funder), Taiteen edistämiskeskus (Funder), AVEK (Funder)
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Jaana Kokko is an artist, filmmaker, teacher and occasional curator based in Helsinki. In her practice, she is now in the search of the common: the emergent need for the change that is starting from our practices of art making, learning and being together. Currently she is working with two bodies of films both located in the peripheries, trying to shift the gaze to the outskirts of the sight and hear. Her work has been exhibited e.g. at the Lithuanian National Gallery in Vilnius, Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga, Tallinn Art Hall, Helsinki Art Hall, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Joensuu Art Museum in Finland, Lappeenranta Art Museum in Finland, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Tampere Film Festival and Tokyo Media Art Festival. She is and has been teaching and lecturing e.g. at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Turku Art Academy, Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn, Latvian Academy of Arts, Riga and Akademie der Bildende Künste, Nürnberg.