A Cinematic installation reflecting on the fragility of life, history and the inexorability of time.

Esitys: 35mm kokopitkä elokuvainstallaatio, 73min loop.

Serlachius museo Gösta, 13.9.2025–19.4.2026

Valkokangasversio valmistuu 2026.

Prosessielokuva ajasta, läsnäolosta ja sen hauraudesta. Teos koostuu kymmenestä, yhden oton 35mm värillisisestä muotokuvasta, joiden pituus on 122 metriä (4,5min) sekä mustavalkoisista luontokuvista. Yksi 122m filmi ja käsinveivattava kamera, paikalla ainoastaan kuvaaja ja malli, joka pysyy anonyyminä. Elokuva on saanut innoituksensa klassikosta Menschen am Sonntag (1930) joka tunnetaan erityisesti siitä, miten kulunut aika on vaikuttanut elokuvan myöhäisempään tulkintaan.

Installaatio 35mm elokuvaprojektorille ja pitkä valkokangaselokuva. Kuvausformaatti D8, 16mm ja 35mm, teos sisältää ohjaajan kehittämää 16mm found footagea 1950-luvulta.

PEOPLE ON SUNDAY

Experimental feature and installation for 35mm projector. Shooting formats S16 and 35mm Academy. Aspect ratio 1.85:1, sound Dolby SR.

A process film about time, presence and its fragility. The work consists of ten, single-take 35mm colour portraits, each 122 metres long (4,5 min) and black and white nature films. The method is simple: one 122m film and a hand-cranked camera, with only the cinematographer and the model, who remain anonymous, present. The film is inspired by the classic silent film Menschen am Sonntag (1930), which is particularly known for how the passage of time has influenced the film’s later interpretation.

MUSIC:

Drum Improvisations 1 & 2: RŪDOLFS DANKFELDS

J.S. BACH, Prelude in E minor, BWV 938 played by ANDŽEJS RANCĒVIČS with St. Paul´s Church Organ, Riga and ANNI-MALVIINA TORVASTI with accordion.

Improvisations with analog synths, guitar and mouth organ: MILJA VIITA

Imaging materials:

16mm forgotten film from Cine-Kodak Royal Magazine
16mm sound recording film 3378 & Double-X
16mm Vision3 500T & 250D

35mm sound recording film 2378
35mm Vision3, 500T & 250D

Artist statement:

I have been afraid of dying since I was 12 years old. The fear has haunted and strengthened during the years, waking me up at nights. I had a feeling I can be a master of the fear and myself by making a film, which simply just celebrates life, showing the fragility of one´s presence, the beauty of the most mundane moments. Now, in the six years of making, I feel the very personal project has developed to a conceptual cinematic view to the apparatus that captures and remembers, itself.
I started the film People on Sunday in 2019, when I shot the first portrait of my son smoking two cigarettes on a balcony. In the shot he is eighteen, and in his first apartment. I remember it was spring, the birds nesting above the balcony and we shared this weird and rather funny moment. Today, viewed from the distance in time, it feels like a power game, where we are drawing the lines of one´s private borders? We are not the same anymore. And the moment has now materialised, having its own independent entity in a film.