A varied selection of short films from the 80’s to today, curated by filmmaker and musician Iiti Yli-Harja.
Carte Blanche celebrates the coincidental, the letting loose, the joy and curiosity in filmmaking. In entails puppet animations and pixilations as well as video art. The playful and loose touch of Kasitonni and Diakur, the poetic experimentality of Lowder and Baes, and the humour and lightness of Hoffman, Noltimier Strauss, Park and Lepore, even with heavy subjects, all inspire me in my work. All these different films have excited and delighted me deeply. They remind me that filmmaking can be the most fun activity of wonder and experimentation.
Iiti Yli-Harja,
director & musician
NOTE: The first film in the screening, Bouquets 10, contains flashing lights that may cause discomfort or seizures for those with epilepsy.
Language: Eng Duration: 83 min Age Limit: 7+
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Fri 8.3.
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19:00
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Niagara
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12
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Sat 9.3.
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11:00
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Cine Atlas 1
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12
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Bouquets 10
Kimput 10Director: Rose LowderCountry: FranceYear: 1995Genre: Experimental, FictionDuration: 2 minThis tenth bouquet is part of a series of films of one minute each, on various subjects. Structured in the camera during "filming" these researches develop to compose a film bunch of pictures picked every time in the same site, at various times.
NOTE: This film contains flashing lights that may cause discomfort or seizures for those with epilepsy. -
Hi Stranger
Hei, muukalainenDirector: Kirsten LeporeCountry: United StatesYear: 2016Genre: AnimationDuration: 3 minThe story is about 50 shapes of you drawn by cute nutty human being that stares directly into your soul.
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Polte
FlameDirector: Sami van IngenCountry: FinlandYear: 2018Genre: Experimental, FictionDuration: 15 minAge Limit:A fractured melodrama, based on damaged frames from the last minutes of the only remaining nitrate reel of the lost feature film Silja – Fallen Asleep When Young (1937) directed by Teuvo Tulio.
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Lucia
Director: Niles Atallah, Cristobal Leon, Joaquin CociñaCountry: ChileYear: 2007Genre: AnimationDuration: 4 minLucía remembers the summer in which she fell in love with Luis. The furniture within a bedroom is shaken and destroyed, meanwhile the charcoal Lucía appears and vanishes on the walls.
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Emily & Ariel Show
Director: Emily Ann Hoffman, Ariel Noltimier StraussCountry: United StatesYear: 2015Genre: AnimationDuration: 3 minJuxtaposing animated video footage with stop-motion puppetry, Emily & Ariel bring you into their lives on an average Friday night.
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Liitäjät
GlidersDirector: Anssi KasitonniCountry: FinlandYear: 2005Genre: Experimental, FictionDuration: 16 minAge Limit:A young squirrel keen on rock’n’roll, American cars and skateboarding is unable to carry on the time-honoured traditions of his family and dressing up as a flying squirrel to protect the home woods.
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Backflip
VirtuaalivolttiDirector: Nikita DiakurCountry: Germany, FranceYear: 2022Genre: Experimental, Animation, DocumentaryDuration: 13 minAttempting a backflip is not exactly safe. You can break your neck, or land on your head, or land badly on your wrists. So, I let my avatar learn the trick. He practices on a 6-core processor with the help of Machine Learning.
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Creature Comforts
Koti kaikilla mukavuuksillaDirector: Nick ParkCountry: United KingdomYear: 1989Genre: AnimationDuration: 6 minAge Limit:A humourous and thought provoking view of what animals in zoos might be thinking about their captivity and surroundings.
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My Silence
Director: Mika TaanilaCountry: FinlandYear: 2013Genre: Experimental, FictionDuration: 13 minThis 'reductionist' video and sound piece is an experiment into what happens when you take out the most important element from a specific canonized feature film classic.
This film was made as a video installation on a monitor. It is now shown exceptionally at the curator's request in a cinema. -
Topic I et II, part II
Aihe I ja II, osa IIDirector: Pascal BaesCountry: FranceYear: 1990Genre: Experimantal, FictionDuration: 8 minFilm theorist André Bazin used to consider film as a spell of time. He spoke triumphantly of a victory on the irreversibility and the transitoriness of life. Baes’s ’Topic I & II’ seems to question these transcendent views on cinematography. His figures are barely apparitions, trying to escape the capturing of time.