Fugue for Flotsam; HD-video and plastic particles out of baby throat inside a glass ball, size 70cm
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All articles filed in Milja Viita
Milja Viita (1974) is a visual artist working with cinematic installations and films by using experimental and documentary material. Her works are characterized by memories and small and familiar phenomenons that are made significant by visual narration.
Risto Jarva award at Tampere Film festival in 2019.
Coriolis (2013)
Coriolis is a 3-channel projection. It´s an documentary about identical twins, Marthe and Martine, who are separated by the world. A caregiver of the elderly, Martine lives currently in Helsinki, while Marthe, who works as a dressmaker, still lives in their native country, Togo. The two sisters come from a region where the…
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Still Life with Mary (2012)
Still Life with Mary is a video concert and installation for video and glass objects. Music; Juho Laitinen, Composer; Aleksander Nowak 16mm B/W -film through glass objects, 2012. Duration 12 minutes. Produced by Poike ry. DOCUMENTATION OF THE PERFORMANCE~ FIRST 60sec. See the link below:
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Femme d´Afrique (2011)
Femme d´Afrique is a B/W -documentary film about diligent women at Gulf of Guinea. See the film: http://www.av-arkki.fi/en/works/woman-of-africa/ English title / Woman of Africa Original title / Femme d`Afrique Type / Single channel Genre / Female point of view, Human relations, Documentary Country / Finland Picture ratio / 16:9 Duration / 00:14:38…
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Monster Attack (2010)
Monster Attack is a single channel video. Kenyan children are playing under the canopy of bamboos when, suddenly, the harmonious atmosphere gets broken. Online preview: http://www.av-arkki.fi/en/works/monster-attack_en/ English title / Monster Attack Original title / Monster Attack Type / Single channel Genre / Experimental Country / Finland Picture ratio / 16:9 Duration / 00:02:10…
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Natural African Jazz Piece – Noël (2010)
Noël and Red-rumped Tinkerbird is a single-channel video. Red-rumped tinkerbird (Pogoniulus atroflavus) is a small, lively bird living in Sub-Saharan West Africa. When a man and the bird met one morning, the man was meant to just imitate the bird, but something new was created instead. Punaperäseppä (Red-rumped Tinkerbird, lat.Pogoniulus atroflavus) on elinvoimainen ja…
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Return of Birdsong (2009)
Return of Birdsong is a 4 -channel video installation. Children from Finland and Kenya imitates the song of endangered bird species. Birds imitated: Käenpiika (Jynx Torquilla) Sinipyrstö (Luscinia cyanura) Muuttohaukka (Falco peregrinus) Haarahaukka (Milvus migrans) Valkoselkätikka (Dendrocopos leucotos) Tiltaltti (Phylloscopus collybita) Amani Sunbird (Hedydipna pallidigaster) Sokoke Scops Owl (Otus ireneae) Sokoke Pipit (Anthus sokokensis) Spotted…
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Missing Letters (2008)
MISSIG LETTERS, 1939-1945 is a single channel video. The letters of artists grandparents, Aino and Allan, were hidden under the floor of an old house in Asikkala in Finland. Over fifty years later their children rewrote the letters on the basis of their own memories and visions. The original letters are still missing.…
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Ceremony (2007)
Ceremony is a single channel video about a small meadow and about an attempt to follow the movements of butterflies. Shot on 16 mm B/W-film. English title / Ceremony Original title / Ceremony Type / Single channel Genre / Landscape, Nature, Experimental Country / Finland Picture ratio / 4:3 Duration / 00:05:25 Language / No…
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Tale of a Dead Man (2006)
Tale of a Dead Man is a single channel video, which forms a video letter to NASA. Female voice tells about the dream she had: there was a grey stone in her hands from which she accidentally created the planet Earth. She is facing difficult moral issues after discovering that there’s life on the surface of…
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