Screening focused on Kai Oka’s films from the 1970’s that were once thought to be lost.
Language: Fin, Eng Duration: 52 min Age Limit: For All Ages
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Fri 8.3.
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21:00
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Niagara
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Spindrift
Director: Jan Bark, Erkki KurenniemiCountry: Sweden, FinlandYear: 1966 / 2013Genre: ExperimentalDuration: 14 minAge Limit:Swedish composer and jazz musician Jan Bark dreamt in the 1960s of a new kind of union between music and moving images. They should not go hand in hand. According to Bark's utopian vision, they should rather sabotage each other.
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Blue Green
SinivihreäDirector: Kai OkaCountry: NorwayYear: 1974Genre: ExperimentalDuration: 6 minFilmed in Oslo by Kai Oka, Blue Green is a fast-paced, impressionistic film. As the director himself said: ”This was done on a trip to visit my sister. Inspired by Stan Brakhage, I let the camera roam around freely”.
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Oblivion Way
Unohduksen tieDirector: Kai OkaCountry: CanadaYear: 1974Genre: ExperimentalDuration: 15 minFilmed near the futuristic office and shopping centre complex Place Vílle Marie in Montréal, the bustling streets are juxtaposed with reproduced images of Raquel Welch, the walk on the Moon, op art, hospital series, and show wrestling shot from a television screen.
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Process Film
ProsessifilmiDirector: Kai OkaCountry: CanadaYear: 1978Genre: ExperimentalDuration: 6 minThe artist's own room in Helsinki seen intentionally blurry. According to Oka, this nervous film has ”strong Peter Gidal influences”.
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Before and After Zeno
Ennen ja jälkeen ZenonDirector: Kai OkaCountry: CanadaYear: 1978Genre: ExperimentalDuration: 8 minA dense synthesis of Oka's cinematic thinking that exudes mysterious beauty. The film is loosely based on Italo Svevo's modernist novel ”Zeno's Conscience” (1923), and it can be seen as a mythological-poetic self-portrait of its maker.
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Confluence
YhtymäDirector: Kai OkaCountry: Canada, FinlandYear: 1978Genre: ExperimentalDuration: 3 minBlack and white images of back-and-forth zooms in a courtyard in Eira glide over each other, forming a hypnotic choreography of film grain. According to Oka, the film was inpired by Malcolm LeGrice's book Abstract Film and Beyond (1977).