"There is bread behind the mountains - Vuorten takana on leipää."

ABANDONED LAND I

HD video / 2017

12.15 min / 16:9 / Stereo / Dialogue: Finnish / Subtitles: English

Directed, Screenplay, Camera, Edit, Music, Sound Design: Simo Saarikoski / Subtitles: Lora Dimova

ABANDONED LAND II

HD video / 2018

19.14 min / 16:9 / Stereo / Dialogue: Finnish / Subtitles: English

Directed, Screenplay, Camera, Edit, Music, Sound Design: Simo Saarikoski / Subtitles: Lora Dimova, Narrator: Timo Torvinen

“Abandoned Land is an experimental, documentary and poetic video about the lost Finland and at the same time about its future. It documents abandoned environments and forgotten lifestyles that have become the periphery of Finnish society and phenomena from today’s perspective. Finland is a metaphor for the social change throughout Europe from the ending of the Second World War up to the present day. The abandoned world is a window to the future, also reflecting the things we may in the future consider worth abandoning.”


FESTIVALS, EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS

ABANDONED LAND I

2019 Photophobia Contemporary Moving Image Festival / Hamilton, Canada
2019 Shared Sight Throw Back, Cinema Victora / Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2018 Aesthetica Short Film Festival / York, UK
2018 Helsinki International Film Festival Love & Anarchy / Helsinki, Finland
2018 W:OW 19 / Quarantine Film Festival / Varna, Bulgaria
2018 Athens Short Film Festival / Athens, Greece
2018 DocLounge Turku / Turku, Finland
2018 The W:OW Project / Kiev, Ukraine
2018 Kinos 18 / Lahti, Finland 
2018 Festival International du Film d'Aubagne (FIFA) / Aubagne, France
2018 KFK Short Film Festival / Istanbul, Turkey 
2018 The 15° Festival Internacional Signos de la Noche / Tucumán, Argentina 
2017 The 15th International Festival Signes de Nuit Lisbonne / Lisbon, Portugal
2017 Burnt Experimental Video Art and Film Fest / Montreal, Canada 
2017 The 2nd BINCIF - Bahia Independent Cinema Festival / Salvador, Brazil 
2017 XI. Istanbul International Architecture and Urban Film Festival / Istanbul, Turkey
2017 Pori Art Museum - Staircase / Pori, Finland (Exhibition)
2017 Festival International Signes De Nuit (Signs of The Night) / Paris, France (The Sign Award)
2017 Rivne International Film Festival "Dream City" / Rivne, Ukraine 
2017 Shared Sight International Short Film Festival / Cluj, Romania
2017 Jacksonville Documentary Film Festival / Jacksonville, FL / USA
2017 Channels Festival - Video Visions / Melbourne, Australia  
2017 Babel Art Space / Trondheim, Norway (Exhibition)

ABANDONED LAND II

2024 Gyumri Art Week / Gyumri, Armenia
2021 Galleria Fikka / Porvoo, Finland
2021 Flickfair Film Festival
2021 Korpifest / Eno, Finland
2021 Chronotop Contemporary Art Festival / Vyborg, Russia
2019 Videoforma 7 / St.Peterburg, Russia
2019 Haihatus Summer Exhibition / Joutsa, Finland
2019 Art Fair Suomi'19 / Helsinki, Finland
2018 Pori Film Festival / Pori, Finland
2018 Gallery Huuto / Helsinki, Finland 
 

Stills from videos

FacebookTwitter
@