Maarit Suomi-Väänänen
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Salty Snow
Experimental Film
Installation
8min40sec
2007
SALTY SNOW thematises the yearning for a child. The film reflects on both the evanescence of being and the innate human need to breed, to create things new. As hopes, expectations and disappointments become interwoven, life feels fragile and vulnerable, and, at times, the shared sorrow is experienced separately.
The installation piece consists of backlit photography and miniature soft sculptures, and the experimental short film with 5.1. multichannel audio. Film can be viewed independently.
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Salty Snow_Data | |
| film crew | |
| script, camera, editing, direction | Maarit Suomi-Väänänen |
| composing | RADIOTON: Tapani Rinne and Verneri Lumi |
| sound design and mixing | Kyösti Väntänen |
| 5.1 mixing | Pauli Saatamoinen |
| music recording | Jukka Viiri |
| online editing | Heikki Kotsalo, Parastus |
| colour correction | Inka Ruohela, Generator Post |
| translations | Arja Kantele |
| grip, lights | Ville Väänänen |
| handicrafts | Maarit Suomi-Väänänen |
| cast | Sanna Hedström, Ville Väänänen |
| producer | Maarit Suomi-Väänänen |
| executive producer | Auli Mantila, DO films Oy |
| support | YLE Co-production / Sari Volanen |
| AVEK / Milla Moilanen | |
| Finnish Cultural Foundation | |
| Arts Council of Finland | |
| ITU - Script Writing Workshop | |
| VISEK | |
| Solo exhibition | Installation exhibition, Cable Gallery, Helsinki Part of VIEW –media art festival 7. - 27.2.2007. |
| Screenings and broadcast | SIMULTAN video and new media art festival, Timisoara, Romania 5.2007 |
| Vertical Festival, Caldes de Montbui, Catalonia, Spain 6.2007 | |
| Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto, Canada 6.2007 | |
| Great Waters – Contemporary Art Festival, Khanty-Mansiysk, West-Siberia, Russia | |
| Cartes Flux -screening vol2, Espoo, Finland | |
| YLE National Broadcast Company, connected to Mother`s Day | |
| data | |
| genre | experimental short film, video installation |
| length | 8min 40 sec |
| aspect ratio | 16:9, colour |
| sound | 5.1. multichannel audio and 2.0. stereo |
| There is no spoken word in the film. | |
| shooting format | DVcam |
| master format | Digital beta |
| screening format | DVD, Digital beta, Beta SP |
| original name | Suolaista lunta |