Events, movies and discussions
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Potentiality seminar
Potentiality seminarSat 9.3.2019 from 11 to 5.30 pm
Free admission to the seminar.
Admission to the festival exhibitions with the museum ticket / Free admission with Museum Card.
The seminar is a forum for discussing the
possibilities for action that exist when faith in solving problems through political
decision-making has diminished and the boundary between parliamentary power and
global economic power has become blurred. The discussion considers photographic
projects that deal with potential for change and alternative ways of thinking
and living. The changes might involve personal lifestyle choices, or they may
be aimed at broader transformation in the structures of society or economic
power. The information produced by photographs forms part of a complex network
of opportunities, conditions, conventions of viewing and displaying, power,
subjugation, and empathy. With their projects, the participating photographers
suggest an ethical imagination that guides us to questioning the structures
around us.
Partisipants: festival’s photographers, artists and makers
FILM SCreenings at Stoa
Thur 14.3. & Tue 26.3.
Discussion after the films.
Free admission.
Thur 14.3. at 2.30 pm
Liminaali & Communitas Discussion after the films.
Thur 14.3. at 2.30 pm
Waste Land
Liminaali & Communitas
director: Laura Rantanen
documentary, 10 min, 2018
in Finnish, English subtitles, K12Aalto University, ELO Film School Finland
After the sunset, a man wanders between the edges of the highways and freeways gathering edible dead animals hit by a car. Liminality & Communitas is an experimental documentary short film about the utilization of roadkill animals. The film investigates the border between life and death and the edges of the manmade world. Liminality & Communitas is a visually rich one night journey in which temporal and eternal meet.
Waste Land
director: Ulla Heikkilä
fiction, 30 min, 2016
in Finnish, English subtitles, K12
Aalto University, ELO Film School Finland
Waste Land is a tragicomic ensemble film about a bunch of kids squatting an abandoned seaside hotel. The shabby hotel offers them a life outside the society, at least momentarily. The house is not a house – it is a space for parties, love, Christmas and cleaning negotiations. But can the days of ease last when the utopia is confronted both by outside forces and by getting bored?
Tue 26.3. at 6 pm
Intentional Community: The Art of Living and The Science of Lifedirectors: Nick Jordan & Clara Casian
documentary, 59 min, 2017
in English, English subtitles
Intentional Community is a documentary portrait of Braziers Park School of Integrative Social Research (Braziers), a resident community and progressive college exploring co-existence, collective work and our place in nature. Centred upon insights from current residents and members, the film interweaves scenes of daily life with the natural features, architectural characteristics and diverse cultural history of the community.
Set in the wider context of intentional communities, sustainable living, and the economics of post- capitalism, Intentional Community explores the 'sociobiological' ideas of Braziers' founders - psychiatrist Norman Glaister and educationalist Dorothy Glaister, who established the community in 1950 as a social experiment in group co-existence. Today, Braziers is the longest-running secular resident community in the UK, and hosts courses and festivals such as Supernormal.
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DISCUSSION: Can photography make a difference?
DISCUSSION: Can photography make a difference?Thur 28.3.2019, 6–8 pm
Oodi Library, Kuutio, 2nd floor
In Finnish
Free admission