Rakkaalleni (To my love)
2022




"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.
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
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