Wallpaper
Seppo Renvall
‘Wallpaper’ is a three-channel moving image installation which employs footage from Renvall’s feature-length experimental work ‘Film1999’. The six-channel soundtrack is a cooperation with Aslak Christiansson.“It's kind of an anti-film because I was so bored with the films I saw on TV. It could be called an ambient film, it's wallpaper-like, you can watch it, but there is no story, not one idea. I just decided to shoot material for a year, but mainly things that are not interesting. If I saw something interesting, I would shoot the other way, shoot right beside it.” - Seppo Renvall, 2000
Production Year
2002
Duration
00:09:00
Type
Genre
Tags
architecture and urban space,
archival materials,
films (photography materials),
observation,
urban landscape
Original Title
Wallpaper
Finnish Title
Wallpaper
English Title
Wallpaper
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
Yes
Cast
Seppo Renvall (Author), Aslak Christiansson (Sound), Seppo Renvall (Speaker), FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange (Support)
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Seppo Renvall
Born: 1963
Seppo Renvall is a pioneer in Finnish experimental film. He works mainly with film and video, but hid artistic output also includes photography, installations and happenings. His films are characterised by an abstract imagery in black and white and a non-narrative structure that often focuses on the apparently commonplace and everyday. Renvall collaborates with musicians, DJs and audio specialists. His works and performances have been seen in the most prestigious arenas of alternative film and visual arts from Anthology Film Archive in New York to the biennials of Venice and Sao Paulo.
51 works