Lost Reels

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

  • Abstrakteja valkoisia muotoja leijuu mustassa tilassa.

    Spindrift

    Director: Jan Bark, Erkki Kurenniemi
    Country: Sweden, Finland
    Year: 1966 / 2013
    Genre: Experimental
    Duration: 14 min
    Age 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.

  • Rakeinen kuva haikean näköisestä henkilöstä.

    Blue Green

    Sinivihreä
    Director: Kai Oka
    Country: Norway
    Year: 1974
    Genre: Experimental
    Duration: 6 min

    Filmed 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”.

  • Sumea kuva hymyilevästä miehestä.

    Oblivion Way

    Unohduksen tie
    Director: Kai Oka
    Country: Canada
    Year: 1974
    Genre: Experimental
    Duration: 15 min

    Filmed 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.

  • Mustavalkoinen lähikuva puisen huonekalun koristellusta kulmasta.

    Process Film

    Prosessifilmi
    Director: Kai Oka
    Country: Canada
    Year: 1978
    Genre: Experimental
    Duration: 6 min

    The artist's own room in Helsinki seen intentionally blurry. According to Oka, this nervous film has ”strong Peter Gidal influences”.

  • Parrakas mies seisoo hymyillen maassa istuvan miehen vieressä.

    Before and After Zeno

    Ennen ja jälkeen Zenon
    Director: Kai Oka
    Country: Canada
    Year: 1978
    Genre: Experimental
    Duration: 8 min

    A 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.

  • Mustavalkoinen kuva ränsistyneestä suuresta käytävästä.

    Confluence

    Yhtymä
    Director: Kai Oka
    Country: Canada, Finland
    Year: 1978
    Genre: Experimental
    Duration: 3 min

    Black 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).