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Rakkaalleni (To my love)

2022
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"Facade renovation locks young woman inside her apartment. During a reconstruction of her home and herself she writes a letter to her loved one."

 

Rakkaalleni (To my love) is a documentary audiovisual mosaic created amid a painful period of depression. The images and the text were built around each other, based on journal-like entries, as a consolation to myself. The film is a breath of air from inside of a repair process, a promise of a return.

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Video & text: Aino Kontinen

Sound design & composition: Kira Siuruainen

Duartion: 5:00 minutes​

Supported by Konstsamfundet

 

Premiered on 29.3.2023 at Amos Rex art museum, Helsinki FI.

The film has been screened as part of Generation 2023 exhibition at Amos Rex art museum on 29.3-20.8.2023, as part of Démodé exhibition at SKC Gallery on 22.-26.11.2023 and screened internationally at video art festivals and film festivals listed below.

2024  Athens Short Film Festival / Athens GR

2024  Doc.Berlin Documentary Film Festival / Berlin DE

2024  Helsinki Poetry Connection Lavaruno-TV / Helsinki FI

2024  Lapinlahti Film Festival / Helsinki FI

2024  Tranås at the Fringe International Arts Festival / Tranås SE

2024  Éphémère ~ London Experimental Film Festival / London UK

2024  Bloomsday Festival / Dublin IRL

2024  11th International Video Poetry Festival / Athens GR

2023  Lisbon Film Rendezvous / Lisbon PT

2023  Strangloscope Film Festival / Florianópolis BR

2023  Boundless Film Festival / London UK

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Awards and nominations

2024  "Best Experimental Short Film" category winner at Athens Short Film Festival

2024  "Best Super Short Documentary Film" category winner at Doc.Berlin Documentary Film Festival

2024  "Lynne Sachs Commendation for Poetic Cinema" at Ephemere - London Experimental Film

2024  "Most Unique Vision" Jury Award winner at Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival

© 2024 Aino Kontinen

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