Voices of Consolation
Saloranta Elina
The video's image track shows paintings by the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864–1916). On the soundtrack a group of people are trying to console the black-clad woman seen in the paintings.
Production Year
2014
Duration
00:09:30
Tyyppi
Asiasana
comfort, experimental films, families, feminism, interiors, loss, love, painting (visual arts), pictures, portraits (works of art ), still lives
Original Title
Voices of Consolation
English Title
Voices of Consolation
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Elina Saloranta (Author), Elina Saloranta (Director), Elina Saloranta (Editor), AVEK (Funder), Elina Saloranta (Sound), Tatu Virtamo (Sound)
Elina Saloranta
Born: 1968
Elina Saloranta is a Helsinki-based artist, who works mainly with the moving image. In her doctoral thesis Genre pictures and experiments in writing, she explored the interaction between image, word and sound, and in her postdoc research she engages in correspondence with the past. Saloranta is also known for her photographic work Nun, which was shown in the ARS 2011 exhibition in Kiasma. She studied film at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA 2001), and her video pieces have been shown in festivals like Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, Love & Anarchy (Helsinki International Film Festival) and Oberhausen Film Festival (2006).
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