Moving North – dance films from the North is a dance film screening event on the internation dance day on April 29th at Kalevan Navetta in Seinäjoki curated by Kati Kallio.
excavation / Ella Posti 6’ FI 2023
A Ritual of Care / Ailish Maher 8’33 FI 2023
Samassa veneessä / Mervi Junkkonen, Mia Malviniemi 7’30 FI/SE 2023
Hiljaisuuteen painettu / Vilma Tihilä, Sanni Kriikku 11’19, Fi, 2023
FUR FUR / Kardo Shiwan 10’ FI 2024
Through the Supermarket in Five Easy Pieces 8’40 FI 2017Walls Beneath Our Feet / Antti Suniala 4’55 FI 2022
Finnish dance films are flourishing. The films are touring internationally and receiving recognition and awards. Recently, Regina Lissowska, curator of the Polish Short Waves film festival, remarked: “Every year, several wonderful dance films come from Finland. We could put together an entirely Finnish program – the films are that high quality.” It is, therefore, a pleasure to present to the audience six wonderful dance films, including one circus film, which transport us to different worlds through movement, emotions, and visuals.
The screening opens with dance film Excavation, which is a duet between dancer Ella Post and an excavator. The film explores the relationship between human and machine from a posthumanist perspective. The work explores the relationship between the human body and the machine, highlighting how both can simultaneously possess extreme strength and sensitivity.
Conceptual film A Ritual of Care by Ailish Maher offers a perspective on presence and care through the lens of ritual making, where actions, intentions and space are made meaningful and relevant.
The poetic music and dance film Hiljaisuuteen painettu (Carried with Silence) by Vilma Tihilä and Sanni Kriikku explores the relationship between mother and daughter, examining transgenerational trauma and the silent transmission of emotions printed beneath the surface from one generation to the next.
Film Samassa veneessä (In the Same Boat) by Mia Malviniemi and Mervi Junkkonen, explores the limits of the elderly body and the boundlessness of the mind. The film tells the story of Rauno, who takes us on a boat trip, facing unexpected adversity.
In the film FUR FUR, Kardo Shiwan takes viewers into the forest with his family and asks, can fur have a memory? The film’s story intimately and sensitively explores the memories, melancholy and intergenerational grief of a bilingual family.
Anna Maria Jóakimsdóttir Hutri’s dance film Through The Supermarket in Five Easy Pieces tells the story of the everyday challenges a family of five faces during their weekly trip to the supermarket. The story is an allegory for the five classical elements of earth, air, fire, water and ether, how they strive in different directions, yet remain together as one.
Antti Suniala’s Walls Beneath Our Feet is an internationally acclaimed circus film that combines music, street art, urban architecture and the manipulation of time with the acrobatic and skilful use of the circus body.
Duration: about 60’