Filmverkstaden: Fragmented Light – Cinema Expanded

Natalia Kozieł-Kalliomäki:

WARM DATA

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Step into the bustling streets of Toronto through the project designed as expanded cinema, where the visual narrative unfolds in layers of urban information captured entirely on 16mm black and white film to tell the story about city symphony.

Entitled “Warm Data,” it shows deep into the fabric of the metropolis, where every frame pulses with the city dynamics and offers another dimension of understanding to what is typically learned only through quantitative data, (cold data).

Britt Al-Busultan:

what goes around comes around

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In the wake of the green energy transition, structures of modern technology arise in the landscape. With increased electrical infrastructure consisting of for example wind turbines, power plants, transmission stations, interconnected energy systems are all around us. Smart and clean.

The belief in our salvation through the energy transition is unshaken, even if lots of nature has to be removed for it. What comes around goes around is an expanded cinema performance with 16mm projectors building up a kinetic panorama. It is a kind attempt of resistance in a world where technology, speed, youth and the triumph over nature are admired, and everything else is regarded as unwanted, slow, obsolete and backwards. An attempt in our fast paced world with smart, clean and super fast technology, to grasp the notion of time and duration which is incomplete and continuously growing, stating no beginning nor ending in a kinetic panorama. 

Accompanying the images is the track Kimaltava lätäkkö from the album Yö Näkyy by Olli Aarni. Made out of tapeloops, short snippets and longer waves gradually go back and forth and slowly build up spaces to settle in. The blissful harmonies bring out the nuance from elegiac synth waves, using subtle processed environmental recordings to add texture.