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Marikki Hakola’s early works at the KOHTA art gallery in Helsinki 14.4.-22.6.2023
The “Shallow Springs” group exhibition include works of artist from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland. Media artist Marikki Hakola’s early works “The Time is Right for…” (1984), “Cricket” (1987-88) and TransVersum” (1993) are displayed in the exhibition. More information: https://kohta.fi/exhibition/shallow-springs/
Epa Tamminen in Memoriam
Epa Tamminen (6.4.1958 – 22.11.2021) worked as a sound designer and stage manager at Kroma Productions for twenty-eight years. Numerous works to which he made significant artistic work have been awarded in Finland and internationally. He collaborated with many directors and media artists, bringing his own special artistic touch to the works of art. Marikki, and Epa’s colleagues and friends in Kroma are grateful for his friendship and significant contribution to numerous films and media works. We all, Epa’s relatives and friends, miss him and his wonderful personality immensely. R.I.P.
MIRAGES is a music and dance film that combines performing arts and virtual scenography into an interdisciplinary experience. The visual world of Mirages is composed by using real-time virtual technology, wherein performers interact with motion-capture animations. Mirages is directed by media artist Marikki Hakola. The origin of MIRAGES lies in Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s contemporary music. The premiere of the film will take place in the fall of 2021.
Mirages is a survival story told by a strong female voice. The trilogy deals with questions around identity, empowerment, and community belonging. In the first part Instants, the protagonist has experienced the end of a close relationship. She recalls the different faces of love, and the multiple sensations of colors, feelings, and sentiments. The conflicting feelings of regret and longing gradually transition into memories. The second part Interplay tells of community and its dynamics. The interplay between the characters develops through improvisation. In the third part Infinity, the woman’s mind opens towards the audience. She recognizes her powers and the different aspects of her identity. She puts her powers to communal use.
The premiere of the Mirages film will take place in the fall of 2021.
Credits
Screenplay, Directing, Editing Marikki Hakola Music Kaija Saariaho Poems Amin Maalouf, Maria Sabina Virtual Scenography Tanja Bastamow Dance Choreography Johanna Nuutinen Soprano Riikka Hakola Piano Pami Karvonen Cello Jan-Erik Gustafsson Dancers Jonna Aaltonen, Jarkko Lehmus, Heidi Lehtoranta, Johanna Nuutinen, Eero Vesterinen, Jussi Väänänen Costume, Make-up Design Heli Salomaa Director of Photography (Instants, Infinity) Mika Tertsunen Director of Photography (Interplay) Petri Enbuske Multi-Camera Supervisor Taneli Haro Sound Design Epa Tamminen Producer Paula Pitkänen Co-production Company StarHop Creative In co-operation with Aalto Studios,Yle Supported by SES, AVEK, MES, Taike, OKM, Kordelin, SKR Executive Producer Marikki Hakola Production Company Kroma Productions
Full credits & more information, please see the Mirages web sitemirages.fi
Kroma Productions proudly presents MIRAGES – the origin of Mirages lies in Kaija Saariaho’s music
Director Marikki Hakola is exited with her latest work – “The Mirages project combines many of the things that have fascinated me during my entire career, such as interactivity, the interface between moving image and performing arts, art research, and the potential of virtual technology in expanding art-making and experiences. A lot of very interesting and innovative things happen at the interface between different art fields when different conventions in art-making and experiences meet”, Marikki Hakola says. The visual world of Mirages is composed by using real-time virtual technology, wherein performers interact with motion-capture animations.
Producer Paula Pitkänen is also very excited of the launch. ”The story of Mirages is about love – and the story starts at the end of a relationship. For me personally, this film is about healing and finding purpose – finding a new focus. The story unfolds with music and dance and a strong visual world created virtually. This production has been something totally new build on talent and strong experience – strong vision. I am extremely proud of the whole team involved with this pioneer production. This music and dance film is full of reflections of the future made today” Pitkänen says.
Mirages is also a research project. The media work forms part of Marikki Hakola’s doctoral degree (DA) at Aalto University. Her research focuses on the philosophy and design of virtual modes of the moving image. The experimental parts of the research have put forth new methods of virtual staging that enable a versatile use of virtual scenography in live performance, real-time streaming of live events, and live broadcast.
Scriptwriter and director Marikki Hakola, music Kaija Saariaho, starring soprano Riikka Hakola, virtual scenography Tanja Bastamow, dance choreography Johanna Nuutinen, camera Mika Tertsunen, sound design Epa Tamminen, costume design Heli Salomaa. Executive producer Marikki Hakola, producer Paula Pitkänen. Production company Kroma Productions Oy 2021. In association with StarHop Creative Oy, Yle, Aalto Studios.
“Arndt Pekurinen” installaation esitykset käynnistyivät Sodan ja rauhan keskus MUISTIssa 4.6.2021
Arndt Pekurinen on draamadokumentti, joka kertoo suomalaisen pasifistin Arndt Pekurisen (1905-1941) elämästä ja kohtalosta. Pekurinen oli aseistakieltäytyjä, joka ei luopunut aatteestaan, vaan kuoli sen vuoksi. Arndt Pekurinen is a drama documentary about the life and destiny of the Finnish pacifist Arndt Pekurinen (1905-1941). Pekurinen was a conscientious objector who did not give up his idea, but died because of it.
Team / Työryhmä: Jarmo Vellonen, Timo Virtala, Marikki Hakola, Epa Tamminen Tuotantovuosi / Production Year: 2021 Draamadokumentti / Drama Documentary (3-channel Video Installation for Five Rooms) Master Format: ProRes422HQ (16:9) Stereo Alkuperäiskieli / Language: Finnish Tekstitykset / Subtitles: English, Swedish, German, Russian Tilaaja Sodan ja rauhan keskus MUISTI / Commissioned work by Centre of War and Peace MUISTI
The Premiere of Ajan virta – The Flow of Time on Feb 12th 2021
The Premiere of Ajan virta – The Flow of Time takes place on Feb 12th 2021 as part of the Light Festival 2021 in Porvoo Museum Square.
“THE FLOW OF TIME is about the Porvoonjoki River and the people who have lived along the river in different eras. The work is an audiovisual poem, a collage in where the historical milieu of Porvoo, the everyday life of the past, merges with the landscape and images of today’s river valley. The video work invites the viewer simultaneously to travel along the stream of time and the stream of river. Visual material has been photographed in the area of Porvoo National City Park during more than a hundred years. THE FLOW OF TIME is a subjective image of the city, whose long and varied history is an integral part of today’s everyday atmosphere and environment”, says media artist, director Marikki Hakola
”AJAN VIRTA videoteoksen pääroolissa ovat Porvoonjoki ja joen varrella eri aikakausina eläneet ihmiset. Teos on audiovisuaalinen runoelma, kollaasi, jossa Porvoon historiallinen miljöö, menneen ajan arkinen elämänmeno sulautuvat nykypäivän jokilaakson maisemakuviin. Videoteos kuljettaa katsojaa samanaikaisesti pitkin ajan virtaa ja joen uomaa. Visuaalinen materiaali on kuvattu Porvoon kansallisen kaupunkipuiston alueella yli sadan vuoden aikana. AJAN VIRTA on subjektiivinen tunnelmakuva kaupungista, jonka pitkä ja vaiherikas historia on olennainen osa nykypäivän arjen ja elämisen ilmapiiriä ja miljöötä”, kertoo mediataiteilija, ohjaaja Marikki Hakola.
Kuusi kuvaa mediataiteilija, elokuvaohjaaja Marikki Hakolan elämästä
Mediataiteilija ja elokuvaohjaaja Marikki Hakola oli 1980-luvulla uusien taidemuotojen pioneeri: hän oli ensimmäinen, joka teki Suomen taideakatemian kouluun, nykyiseen Kuvataideakatemiaan, lopputyönä videoteoksen. Hakola on tehnyt myös performanssia, maataidetta, multimediateoksia, installaatioita, mediataidetta, elokuvia ja internettaidetta. Hänen uusin teoksensa on musiikki- ja tanssielokuva Mirages, joka on toteutettu virtuaalisen visualisoinnin keinoin. Marikki Hakolan kanssa hänen elämänsä tärkeitä kuvia katselee toimittaja Jonni Roos.
Team: Jarmo Vellonen, Timo Virtala, Marikki Hakola, Epa Tamminen Production Year: 2021 Genre / Type: Drama Documentary, 3-channel Video Installation for five rooms Master Format: ProRes422HQ (16:9) Stereo Language: Finnish Subtitles: English, Swedish, German, Russian Commissioned work by Centre of War and Peace MUISTI
Credits
Arndt is inspired by the installation of Jarmo Vellonen, ”Arndt elää” 2018. Script: Jarmo Vellonen, Timo Virtala, Marikki Hakola, Epa Tamminen Directing, Editing: Marikki Hakola Camera: Marikki Hakola, Jarmo Vellonen, Ilari Vanhatalo Sound Design: Epa Tamminen Voices: Jarmo Vellonen, Arja Pekurinen Music : Antti Hytti Picture Sources Olga Pekurinen’s Newspaper Clip Archive Kansan arkisto SA-kuva-arkisto Jarmo Vellonen’s Picture Archive Marikki Hakola’s Picture Archive Commissioned work by Centre of War and Peace MUISTI / Tilaaja Sodan ja rauhan keskus MUISTI Producer / Tuottaja: Marikki Hakola Production Company / Tuotantoyhtiö: Kroma Productions Ltd. 2021
Synopsis
Arndt Pekurinen was a convinced pacifist, who refused to serve in the army, in war, and to participate in any sort of action that would support the army. Pekurinen saw warfare as brutishly cruel and offensive to higher values of life. Refusing to serve in the army was, however, against the law in the days Pekurinen lived in. For his ideology, Pekurinen was condemned three times to imprisonment in the time period of 1929-1931.
“I am certainly ready serve my fatherland with useful work, if I am allowed to perform it as civilian work distinct from the institution of armed forces,” Arndt Pekurinen wrote in his defence speech as he was waiting for his third prison sentence. “Instead of military service, I am ready to perform such work even for a much longer period of time than the actual time of service in the armed forces is.”
The prison sentences given to Pekurinen aroused much international attention. Professor Albert Einstein and writers H.G. Wells and Henri Barbusse wrote to Niukkanen, the Finnish minister of defence: “Considering that both Your country and ours have accepted the Paris Treaty, we think that it would be a pleasant task to free a person whose only crime is his faithfulness to his principles of peace.” Einstein also wrote that “morality and moderation require insisting that conscientious objectors are used only for such work that has no connection whatsoever to the armed forces.”
The public discussion aroused by Pekurinen’s case and appeals signed by Albert Einstein and other prestigious Europeans finally led, on 14.4.1931, to the birth of Lex Pekurinen, the first law regulating civilian service. This law made it possible for those conscripts who were prevented by reasons of conscience to serve in the army to perform civilian service instead.
Due to this civilian service law, Pekurinen was allowed to live in peace for eight years, to work and start a family. However, this law did not apply in the time of war, with fateful results for Pekurinen. After the start of Winter War, Pekurinen was again ordered to military service. He refused for the fourth time and was put to prison for the fourth time, this time for two years.
Aleksandra Pekurinen, Arndt’s wife, wrote on 6.3.1940: “No field is ever cleared, no country is ever saved, unless there are brave pioneers, men who defy obstacles with their deeds and level the way for others.”
In the Continuation War, Pekurinen was order to service for the fifth time. For the fifth time he also refused and for the fifth time he was condemned and ordered to be executed. Arndt Pekurinen was executed at the Suomussalmi front, during the Continuation War, on the 5th of November 1941.
Starting points of the work and makers’ thoughts
The story of Pekurinen has made an unforgettable impression of the makers of drama documentary Arndt Pekurinen. Here are some thoughts by the members of work team.
Sculptor Jarmo Vellonen: “After having performed civilian service in the 1980s I was not aware of Arndt Pekurinen, who had made possible my civilian service too. In 1998 I read from a paper that Erno Paasilinna had written a book about Pekurinen. I asked my mother if he was related to us, since he had been born in the same county as our granny. My mother answered that he was. No one had spoken anything about this to me before. I want to honor the memory of Arndt Pekurinen, his convictions and his example as a pioneer of peace movement.”
The drama documentary Arndt Pekurinen draws inspiration from an earlier installation made by Jarmo Vellonen, ‘Arndt lives’ from 2018.
Sociologist, nonfiction writer Timo Virtala. “I became acquainted with the life of Pekurinen after I started working at the civilian service center in 1999. His timeless wisdom and courage to walk the path he considered to be right one made a huge impression on me. I wrote a lecture play for the civilian service center, where it is still being presented. Obviously Pekurinen’s story is also a part of my book The power of nonviolence – stories about courage, which was published last spring.”
Sound planner Epa Tamminen: “The starting point of sound planning is to bring strong emotional atmosphere, color, and sense of life to this work. The world of sound lights up and brings to life the photographs and video images used in the visualization of the work and brings the levels of everyday routine, family and working into the story. It also refers to the thoughts and feelings that reflect from the texts written by Pekurinen. The music composed by Antti Hytti also has a significant role in creating atmosphere in the dramatic moments of the work.”
Media artist, director Marikki Hakola: “What has touched me in the story of Arndt Pekurinen has been especially his courage and pacifistic conviction. The work describes the traits of Pekurinen as an ideological, hard-working, reading, thinking person, as well as a family father and husband. There are only very few photographs about Pekurinen and his family. We ended up using, in the spirit of drama documentary, using other imagery of the time period in the visualization, and also the picture archives of Vellonen and myself. The installation ‘Arndt lives’ by Vellonen has also been shot for this work.
Pekurinen’s own voice is in central role in this work. His universal thoughts about war and peace are relevant and important for our own time as well. I hope that Pekurinen’s legacy, the message of peace, is transmitted through our work to the people of this day and age.”
Kulttuuri ja historia -projektit
Kroma Productions referenssejä – museot, historia, kulttuuri, näyttelyt, konsertit, tapahtumat
Arndt Pekurinen • Museoinstallaatio, Tilaaja Sodan ja rauhan keskus MUISTI, Mikkeli 2021
J. L. Runeberg • Internet-sivusto (online), tilaaja J. L. Runeberg 200 juhlavuoden toimikunta 2004.
Linnajoen kaupunki • Museomultimedia (offline) ja internet-sivusto (online), tilaaja Porvoon museo 2002-2006.
Aarre Espoossa • Internet-sivusto (online), tilaaja Espoon museo 2002.
The Europe of Tales • Internet-sivusto (online), EU yhteistuotanto, tilaaja Gallen-Kallela museo 2002.
Ars 4 You – Ars01 • Televisiosarja, 20-0saa, ARS’01 näyttelyn taiteilijoiden esittelyjä, tilaajat Kiasma ja Nelonen 2001.
Mirages Screenings 2021
“Mirages” at the Avant Première Online Market Screenings 2021
Ajan virta – Tidens ström – The Flow of Time
Details
Director: Marikki Hakola Genre: Video Art Duration: 7 min. 20 sec. Production Year: 2021 Master Format: ProRes422HQ Audio: Stereo Language: No language Distributors: Kroma Productions Ltd.
“THE FLOW OF TIME is about the Porvoonjoki River and the people who have lived along the river in different eras. The work is an audiovisual poem, a collage in where the historical milieu of Porvoo, the everyday life of the past, merges with the landscape and images of today’s river valley. The video work invites the viewer simultaneously to travel along the stream of time and the stream of river. Visual material has been photographed in the area of Porvoo National City Park during more than a hundred years. THE FLOW OF TIME is a subjective image of the city, whose long and varied history is an integral part of today’s everyday atmosphere and environment”, says media artist, director Marikki Hakola
”AJAN VIRTA videoteoksen pääroolissa ovat Porvoonjoki ja joen varrella eri aikakausina eläneet ihmiset. Teos on audiovisuaalinen runoelma, kollaasi, jossa Porvoon historiallinen miljöö, menneen ajan arkinen elämänmeno sulautuvat nykypäivän jokilaakson maisemakuviin. Videoteos kuljettaa katsojaa samanaikaisesti pitkin ajan virtaa ja joen uomaa. Visuaalinen materiaali on kuvattu Porvoon kansallisen kaupunkipuiston alueella yli sadan vuoden aikana. AJAN VIRTA on subjektiivinen tunnelmakuva kaupungista, jonka pitkä ja vaiherikas historia on olennainen osa nykypäivän arjen ja elämisen ilmapiiriä ja miljöötä”, kertoo mediataiteilija, ohjaaja Marikki Hakola.
Credits
Käsikirjoitus, ohjaus ja leikkaus Manuskript, regi och klippning Screenplay, Directing and editing MARIKKI HAKOLA
Historialliset kuvat / Historiska bilder / Historical Pictures Porvoon museo / Borgå museum / Porvoo Museum
Sovitus / Arrangemang / Arrangement Oddarrang-yhtye / Oddarrang band
Musiikin esitys / Framförande av musik / Music Performance Oddarrang-yhtye / Oddarrang band OLAVI LOUHIVUORI OSMO IKONEN ILMARI POHJOLA LASSE SAKARA LASSE LINDGREN
Kuvauspaikka / Fotograferingsplats / Shooting location Porvoon kansallinen kaupunkipuisto Nationalstadsparken i Borgå The National Urban Park in Porvoo
“Ajan virta” on Porvoon kaupungin 675-juhlavuoden tilausteos. “Tid ström” är ett beställningsverk av staden Porvoo för 675-årsjubileet. “The Flow of Time” is a commissioned work by the city of Porvoo for the 675th anniversary.
Lämmin kiitos / Varmt tack / Warm Thanks SARI MYLLYNEN KATARINA BROAS MARINA CATANI PAULA PITKÄNEN MARKO KANTOLA
Tuotanto / Produktion / Production MARIKKI HAKOLA Kroma Productions 2021
Avant Première Talk ‘Mirages – an innovative exploration combining arts and technologies’
Presented by KROMA Productions
This Avant Première Talk is about using innovative technologies in order to create world class art, using the example of the extraordinary production “Mirages”. Mirages is innovative by nature – a production where the basis lies in music and the visual world is realised by using green screen, virtual studio and motion capture techniques. This production combines live action footage of the performer with real-time virtual sets and interactive digital elements. This is a new method for creating the visual world around the performer in any audiovisually transmitted event – an innovative interplay between online streaming, film and game design technologies.
Mirages projektin ensimmäiset kuvaukset Magnusborgissa 2-6.7.2018
Muusikot Riikka Hakola, Jan Erik Gustafsson ja Pami Karvonen Musiikkitalon studiossa
Muusikot Riikka Hakola, Jan Erik Gustafsson ja Pami Karvonen tallensivat Kaija Saariahon sävellyksiä Sibelius-Akatemian äänitysstudiossa, Musiikkitalossa 25.-29.6.2018. Musiikki tallennettiin MIRAGES elokuvan soundtrackia varten. Musiikin äänittivät Epa Tamminen ja Petri Lehtola .
StarHop Creative Ltd is born!
Kroma is proud to be a partner and collaborator of StarHop Creative!
StarHop is connecting the virtual and the physical audiovisual experiences for multiple platforms. StarHop Creative Ltd is an innovative, Helsinki based company combining arts and technologies. We design and create unique concepts and produce audiovisual experiences for multiple platforms. We work together with our international network of partners and professionals for the sole benefit of audiences all over the world. StarHop works with talent and passion to combine arts and technologies. StarHop combines multiple physical and virtual elements into one experience space.
Producer Paula Pitkänen joined the Kroma team at the beginning of October 2017. She will act as a producer in Kroma’s art films and media art productions and will also work in international operations and affairs. You are warmly welcome, Paula!
Paula Pitkänen Producer, Manager of International Affairs
paula@kroma.fi
Phone: +358 40 750 8844
Kroma is attending Avant Première 9 – 19 February 2017
Kroma is attending Avant Première and Berlinale 9 – 19 February 2017. Avant Première is the largest international trade fair for cultural TV and presents latest film productions for worldwide transmission. The main topic of this year will be VR.
Marikki Hakola, Maya Deren ja Meredith Monk Hales Galleryssa, Lontoossa
Hales Gallery London New York esittelee kesäohjelmistossaan 26.7.-6.8. kolme tanssia ja kokeellista liikkuvaa kuvaa yhdistävää klassikkoteosta: Marikki Hakolan tanssivideo TransVersum (1993), Maya Derenin tanssielokuva The Very Eye of Night (1958) ja Meredith Monkin tanssielokuva 16 Millimeter Earrings (1966).
Taiteilijat ovat vuosisatojen ajan tutkineet ihmiskehon esittämisen rajoja ja mahdollisuuksia liikkeessä ja tilassa. Tanssiesityksessä kehosta – hengityksestä, konkreettisesta liikkeestä todellisessa tilassa ja ajassa – tulee taiteellista materiaalia, jonka kautta merkityksiä ja tunteita viestitään. Näissä Marikki Hakolan, Maya Derenin ja Meredith Monkin tanssielokuvissa ei kuitenkaan ole kyse esitysten taltioinnista, vaan ne rakentuvat elokuvan omin keinoin, liikkuvaa kuvaa, ääntä ja kunkin aikakauden teknologiaa hyödyntäen. Elokuvissa tanssijoiden kehon liikkeet yhdistyvät osaksi uudenlaista tilaa, aikaa sekä taiteellista ja käsitteellistä ratkaisua. Jokaisessa kolmessa teoksessa, kolmelta eri vuosikymmeneltä, on erilainen maailmankuva ja esteettinen toteutustapa mustavalko-negatiivista elektroniseen siveltimeen. Koreografisoitu liikekieli säilyy kuitenkin vahvasti teosten ytimessä.
Mediataiteilija Marikki Hakola on työskennellyt performancen, videon ja uusien teknologioiden parissa vuodesta 1982. Hakolan teosten monipuolinen kirjo sisältää tanssielokuvia, musiikkielokuvia, videoteoksia, vuorovaikutteisia multimedia- ja internet-teoksia sekä installaatioita. Ne asettavat hänet eurooppalaisen mediataiteen tutkimuksen ja taiteellisen työskentelyn eturintamaan. Hakolan TransVersum (1993) on tutkielma elektronisen liikkuvan kuvan mahdollisuuksista. Teknologia ei ole vain toteutuksen väline, vaan myös voimakas keino ilmaista inhimillisen olemassaolon ja jälkiteollisen yhteiskunnan ajan henkeä, zeitgeistia.
TransVersum on muodoltaan laajennettu tanssivideo, jonka Hakola on ohjannut lähtökohtana koreografi Ismo-Pekka Heikinheimon näyttämölle suunniteltu tanssiteos ‘Come Quickly for I’m Seeing Stars’. Hakola muuntaa elektronista sivellintä käyttäen ihmiskuvaa ja sitä ympäröivää tilaa. Tanssijat etsivät keinoja ilmaista näkemyksiä identiteetistä ja seksuaalisuudesta liikkuen virtuaalisessa, keinotekoisessa tilassa, joka vaikuttaa samanaikaisesti sekä vapauttavan että vangitsevan heitä.
The Turppi Group was intrigued by rituals and ritualistic spaces. They combined land art with performative corporeal presence. The Group constructed experimental spaces where the shape and dimensions were reminiscent of the human body and its range of movement. The fundamental element of the work is the natural environment in its role as both the source of spiritual wellbeing, and as the central principle of what it means to be human. For their part, the works of the Turppi Group tie into the long historical traditions of myth and ritual.
“A partial tenet seems to be the age old rubric of seeing the whole world in a single grain of sand” Markku Valkonen, Helsingin Sanomat newspaper, 1982
The Turppi Group was born and flourished for a brief time in the early 1980s, during a fruitful period of transition in Finnish art. At the time, new art forms such as performance, video, photography and installations were only just arriving in Finland – a decade after the Central European art capitals of Berlin and Paris had embraced them. Many Finnish critics and established artists saw these new artistic phenomena as nothing more than a phase. This categorised the activities and works by the Turppi Group as extremely marginal in the Finnish art scene.
“Overall this Turppi kind of activity is indicative of the art of the future. Even art has this peculiar tendency to isolate and limit itself to the struggles associated with an image of the lonely artist, locked away in their studio. Just as is the case in other expert fields, everyone recoils at anything remotely ‘amateur’, dismissing it as childish whim.”
Erkki Pirtola, Taide-lehti art magazine, issue no. 5/1982
Ritual and the Sandpit
The Turppi Group was founded in the summer of 1982 in Lehtimäki, at a Nordic sculpture symposium entitled Experimental Environment III. A group of students from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts – Marikki Hakola, Lea Kantonen, Jarmo Vellonen – and theatre critic Pekka Kantonen, were invited to take part in the symposium. There the young artists formed the Turppi Group, which would go on to create environmental art, land art, installations, performances, photography and video art works.
In Lehtimäki, the Turppi Group realised several land art works on a large abandoned area which had been formed by sandpits. The content of the art works was influenced by the radical change in scenery, which had been caused by the now ceased industrial activity in that area. During the symposium, the activities of the artists provoked a convergence: the abandoned, forested industrial site was transformed into an environmental art work park, where these oeuvres and the surrounding nature lived harmoniously.
The Turppi group chose a peaceful pine grove growing around the edges of the sand pits as the location for their work “Resting Place”. The piece tied together the Turppi Group’s interests in performativity, the environment and nature-based mythology. Stones that had eroded into smooth slabs during the Ice Age were tied to hemp ropes and hung from the branches of the tall pine trees. The stones swung in the wind, forming a countermovement to the swaying of the pine trees. Large barrels were dug into the ground around the grove and subsequently filled with water. The barrels created small waterhole-like mirrors, which reflected the movements of the stones and pines. This communicative manifestation of movement inspired and formed the basis of the “Resting Place” performance, where human nature provides a commentary on the movements of the forest, embodies it and reacts to its occurrences.
The passing of time and applying a time-based dramaturgical approach became the central traits in the work of the Turppi Group. However, this interest in performativity did not in a sense mean the group created public performances. Works were brought to audiences mostly through forms of documentation.
Photography was the primary form of documentation favoured by the Turppi Group. They captured the performances and land art works realised at Lehtimäki through several photographic series, such as “Ant Queen”, as well as “The Making of ‘Resting Place’”.
Lehtimäki also marked the first time the Turppi Group had video equipment at their disposal. Through video it was simpler to highlight the dimension of time within their performances than it was with photographs. Shot at the Lehtimäki symposium, “Earth Contacts” (1982, 23 mins.) was the first video by the Turppi Group and was also the first Finnish video performance art work. The oeuvre was created by combining several visual and performative elements the group had developed during the symposium: the sculptural and spatial details of “Resting Place”, as well as the improvised movements of “Ant Queen” and “Resting Place”. “Earth Contacts” was edited in the Film Department’s editing suite at the University of Art and Design, under the tutelage of Kyösti Mankamo. Through the use of montage in the editing process, the different visual components were formed into a dramaturgical whole.
The video work “Earth Contacts”, land art work “Resting Place” and other works created and documented through photographs at the sandpit, underline the philosophical ethos behind the artistic activities of the Turppi Group. During their time at Lehtimäki, the members of the Turppi Group were especially interested in how human nature could become part of the materiality and movements of the natural forest environment. They combined the sensory experiences of moving in the forest with ritualistic activity, performativity and the temporal process of making art.
Extracts from discussions about the Turppi Group, spring 1983:
– The artist shouldn’t be the one who exhibits their own products, held up for judgement by others. No, art is a language, a means of expression. And the audience – instead of conversing amongst themselves about whether something was good or bad, whether it had a new or a worn aesthetic, now did they use video or was it film, was it too commercial, are we certain that was really art or was it something else. What if we just let go, and allowed ourselves to think for a moment about what it is giving me, and what it liberates within myself.
– Art is just another language, and the artist is no more of a saint than anyone else who speaks any language, it’s just our way of expressing ourselves.
Intermediate Space
The forming of the Turppi Group was preceded by the installation and performance “Intermediate Space”, which was designed Marikki Hakola and Lea Kantonen. The installation consisted of a dark space (approx. 20m2), lit only by a UV light. The floor of the room was slanted and the walls were black and white stripes. The performers moved around the space for five days, and painted the walls with black and white paint using their hands and bodies. The soundscape was formed by improvised songs and percussion rhythms. A rope was hung from the ceiling, and the performers would climb up it from time to time. Gradually, the black and white walls were covered with body tracks.
At the same time “Intermediate Space” was being exhibited in the sand covered cellar floor of the Ateneum Art Museum, Jarmo Vellonen’s installation was also there on display. That was comprised of a crater and water basin which had been dug into the sand, with a rock dangling above it. The quiet space was lit with candles. The audience was only allowed in one at a time to experience the piece and crawl through the sand.
Marikki Hakola and Lea Kantonen:
“‘Intermediate Space’ is not a completed art work. It changes in the presence of and according to the viewer. Its makers and spectators are part of the work. It is futile to try and categorise what kind of art “Intermediate Space” belongs under. It is a process between human and space.”
An Urban Line of Death
The Turppi Group continued to be active after the Lehtimäki symposium. Group members Markki Hakola and Lea Kantonen had studios in Katajanokka in Helsinki, in a dilapidated Sea Barracks building from the days of Imperial Russia. The Barracks spaces functioned as workrooms for painting students at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. In the autumn of 1983, the Academy ceased to hold classes at the Marine Barracks. This allowed students even more extensive use of the studios.
The Marine Barracks served as the filming location for the Turppi Group’s next video. The video work “Deadline” (1983, 17 min.) was filmed in the old execution yard, and “Greenhouse” the Turppi Group constructed within the interiors of the Marine Barracks. At the time, material was also shot at the construction site of the Forum Shopping Centre in central Helsinki. During filming Martti Kukkonen also joined the Turppi Group, and he can be seen in the execution yard scene in the “Deadline” video.
The idea for “Deadline” came about from the feelings that arise when old buildings are called to demolition. The Marine Barracks were also threatened to be partially demolished. For the members of the Turppi Group, this meant a soon approaching eviction from the precious workrooms that had come to be important spaces for artistic pursuits.
The relationship to the Barracks was a double-edged sword. On the one hand, the demolition and its impending sense of loss caused worry, but on the other hand the call for demolition meant the spaces were totally open to use of any kind, and it was possible to incorporate the space into the artistic process.
The realisation of “Deadline” was influenced by the tone of Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 film Stalker. The Marine Barracks were a similar kind of area to Stalker’s “Zone”, a place caught between two historical eras – one which still feels present, and another which feels like it is only beginning. The artistic work that took place between these two worlds resulted in a particularly spiritual space, a no man’s land where the unearthly, internal elements of “Deadline” were founded.
At the Marine Barracks the Turppi Group constructed the “Greenhouse” installation, which literally grew all the way from the ceiling to the floor. Earth materials such as stones, gravel and soil were brought into the space. Wheat and herbaceous plants were sown within the space, and moss was planted. Sand and soil were glued to the walls in order to act as a growth medium for grass. Cloths where grass was sprouted were also draped along the walls. “Greenhouse” created a small, peaceful island in the middle of an urban culture.
The idea of bringing nature in its growing bloom into a derelict urban dwelling is evocative of the land art work “Resting Place” created at Lehtimäki. The subject in both works is the tension between man’s propensity for the destruction of the natural environment, and the idea of nature itself and everything to do with organic growth.
The video work “Deadline” juxtaposes the development of modern commercial spaces with the violence and oppression associated with colonialism. The rabid demolition that preceded the construction of commercial shopping complexes in the centre of Helsinki and the partial demolition of the late 18th-century Barracks ridded the city of old, dilapidated buildings and overgrown urban wastelands. But at the same time it also destroyed memories and the historical remnants of a bygone habitat and way of life, the signs of an era departed. “Deadline” contrasts the renewing powers of nature with the endless ideological growth symbolised by the urban environment. In the end, the black line is not drawn between life and death, but instead between two opposing worldviews.
The Turppi Group disbanded when the interests of its members shifted in different directions after the end of their studies. Lea and Pekka Kantonen headed towards Mexico, where they would go on for a number of years to work in communal art and documenting the rituals of indigenous populations. Jarmo Vellonen focused on sculpting and Martti Kukkonen on painting. Marikki Hakola moved on entirely to video art, combining audio visual with performativity in her later works. But numerous conceptual, philosophical and aesthetic influences created and developed during the Turppi Group era can still be found in the current art work of each and every one of its former members.
Turppi-ryhmä oli kiinnostunut rituaaleista ja rituaalisista tiloista. Se yhdisti maataiteeseen performatiivista ruumiillista läsnäoloa. Ryhmä rakensi kokeellisia tiloja, joiden muodot ja mittasuhteet rinnastuivat ihmisen kehoon ja inhimillisiin liikeratoihin. Teosten kantava elementti on luontoympäristö henkisen hyvinvoinnin lähteenä ja ihmisenä olemisen keskeisimpänä periaatteena. Turppi-ryhmän teokset liittyvät osaltaan myyttien ja rituaalien pitkään historialliseen ketjuun.
”Osin periaatteena näyttää toimineen vanha ohje nähdä hiekanjyvässä koko maailma”
Markku Valkonen, Helsingin Sanomat 1982
Turppi-ryhmä syntyi ja kukoisti hetken suomalaisen taiteen hedelmällisessä murrosvaiheessa 1980-luvun alkuvuosina. Uudet taidemuodot, performanssi, video, valokuva ja installaatio, tekivät tuona aikana vasta tuloaan Suomeen – vuosikymmenen myöhässä verrattuna Keski-Euroopan suuriin taidekeskuksiin, Berliiniin ja Pariisiin. Monet suomalaiset kriitikot ja etabloituneet taiteilijat pitivät näitä taiteen uusia ilmiöitä vain ohimenevänä vaiheena. Turppi-ryhmän toiminta ja teokset olivatkin syntyessään erittäin marginaalisia suomalaisessa taidekentässä.
”Ylipäätään tällainen turppi-työskentely viittaa tulevaisuuden taiteeseen. Taiteellakin on ollut kumma taipumus eristyä yksinäisen ateljee-erakon uurastukseksi. Kuten kaikilla muillakin asiantuntija-aloilla, kavahdetaan kaikkea ’amatööriyttä’ tai hiekkalaatikkoleikkisyyttä.”
Erkki Pirtola, Taide-lehti 5/1982
Hiekkakuoppa ja rituaali
Turppi-ryhmä perustettiin kesällä 1982 Lehtimäellä, Suomessa järjestetyssä pohjoismaisessa kuvanveistosymposiumissa Experimental Environmental III. Ryhmä Suomen Taideakatemian koulun opiskelijoita, Marikki Hakola, Lea Kantonen, Jarmo Vellonen ja taidekriitikko Pekka Kantonen kutsuttiin osallistumaan symposiumiin. Nuoret taiteilijat muodostivat symposiumissa ympäristöteoksia, tilateoksia, performansseja, valokuvateoksia ja videoteoksia toteuttaneen Turppi-ryhmän.
Turppi-ryhmä toteutti Lehtimäellä hylättyjen hiekkakuoppien muodostamalle laajalle maa-alueelle useita maataideteoksia. Teosten sisältöön vaikutti alueella jo päättyneen teollisen toiminnan aiheuttama raju maiseman muutos. Symposiumiin osallistuneiden taiteilijoiden työskentely sai aikaan konvergenssin: Hylätystä, metsiköityvästä teollisesta alueesta kehittyi ympäristötaidepuisto, jossa teokset ja ympäröivä luonto elivät rinnakkain.
Hiekkakuoppien reunamilla kasvava rauhallinen honkametsikkö valikoitui Turppi-ryhmän teoksen Lepopaikka toteutuspaikaksi. Lepopaikassa yhdistyi Turppi-ryhmän kiinnostus performatiivisuuteen, ympäristöön ja luontoaiheiseen mytologiaan. Korkeiden honkien oksistoon ripustettiin pitkillä hamppuköysillä jääkauden aikana pyöreiksi hioutuneita kiviä. Kivet heiluivat tuulen mukana kuin vastaliikkeenä huojuville hongille. Metsikön maaperään kaivettiin isoja tynnyreitä, jotka täytettiin vedellä. Tynnyrit muodostivat pieniä lähteiden kaltaisia vesipeilejä, jotka heijastivat kivien ja honkien liikkeitä. Tältä pohjalta inspiroitunut liikekieli muovautui Lepopaikka -teoksessa esitykseksi, jossa ihmisluonto kommentoi metsäluonnon liikettä, samastui siihen ja reagoi sen tapahtumiin.
Ajan kulumiseen ja aikaan sidotun dramaturgian ottaminen teosten elementiksi oli Turppi-ryhmän teosten keskeinen ominaisuus. Kiinnostus performatiivisuutta kohtaan ei kuitenkaan tarkoittanut esittävyyttä siinä mielessä, että ryhmä olisi valmistanut julkisen esityksen yleisölle. Teokset tuotiin yleisön koettaviksi lähinnä dokumenttien välityksellä.
Valokuvaus oli ensisijainen Turppi-ryhmän dokumentaatiokeino. Ryhmä toteutti Lehtimäellä tehdyistä performansseista ja maataideteoksista useita valokuvasarjoja, kuten Muurahaiskuningattaren, sekä dokumentoi valokuvin Lepopaikan tekoprosessin.
Lehtimäellä Turppi sai ensimmäistä kertaa käyttöönsä videolaitteiston. Videon keinoin oli mahdollista tuoda esiin esityksien aikaulottuvuutta valokuvaa paremmin. Lehtimäen symposiumissa kuvattu ryhmän ensimmäinen video Earth Contacts (1982, 23 min.) oli Suomen ensimmäinen performanssivideo. Teos toteutettiin yhdistämällä useita symposiumin aikana kehitettyjä visuaalisia ja performatiivisia elementtejä: Lepopaikan veistoksellisia ja tilallisia yksityiskohtia sekä Lepopaikan ja Muurahaiskuningattaren liikeimprovisaatiota. Earth Contacts editoitiin Taideteollisen korkeakoulun ETL:n editointiyksikössä Kyösti Mankamon opastuksella. Editointiprosessissa erilaiset visuaaliset ainekset saatettiin montaasin avulla dramaturgiseksi kokonaisuudeksi.
Earth Contacts -videoteoksessa, Lepopaikka -ympäristöteoksessa ja ja muissakin hiekkakuoppa-alueella toteutetuissa ja valokuvin dokumentoiduissa teoksissa tulee esiin Turppi-ryhmän taiteellisen toiminnan filosofiset taustaoletukset. Turppi-ryhmän jäsenet olivat Lehtimäen symposiumin aikaan erityisen kiinnostuneita ihmisluonnon osallisuudesta metsäluonnon materiaalisuuteen ja liikkeeseen. He yhdistivät metsässä liikkumisen aistikokemukset ritualistiseen toimintaan, esittävyyteen ja taiteen tekemisen ajallisiin prosesseihin.
Otteita Turppi-keskustelusta keväällä 1983:
– Taiteilija ei olisi se, joka esittelee omia tuotteitaan, joita toiset arvostelee, vaan taide on yksi kieli ilmaista asioita, ja yleisö – sen sijaan että keskustelee keskenään, oliko toi hyvä vai huono, oliko toi nyt uutta vai vanhaa estetiikkaa, käytettiinkö nyt videota tai filmiä, oliko se nyt liian kaupallista, oliko se nyt varmasti taidetta vai jotain muuta – vois vaan antaa itsensä ja miettiä, mitä mä siitä saan, mitä se mussa vapauttaa.
– Taide on yksi kieli, eikä taiteilija ole sen enempää pyhimys kuin muutkaan kielen käyttäjät, se on vaan meidän tapa ilmaista itseämme.
Välitila
Turppi-ryhmän perustamista edelsi Marikki Hakolan ja Lea Kantosen suunnittelema Välitila, installaatio ja performanssi. Installaatio oli pimennetty tila (n. 20 m²), jota valaisi vain UV-valo. Lattia oli kalteva ja seinät musta-valkoraidalliset. Esiintyjät liikkuivat tilassa viiden päivän ajan maalaten käsillään ja kehollaan seiniä mustalla ja valkoisella maalilla. Äänitila rakentui lauluimprovisaatiosta ja perkussion rytmeistä. Kattoon oli ripustettu köysi, johon esiintyjät aika ajoin kiipesivät. Mustavalkoiset seinät peittyivät asteittain kehon jäljistä.
Samanaikaisesti Välitilan kanssa Ateneumin hiekalla täytetyssä pohjakerroksen holvikellarissa oli esillä Jarmo Vellosen installaatio. Se koostui hiekkaan kaivetusta kraatterista ja vesialtaasta, jonka yläpuolella roikkui kivi. Hiljainen tila oli valaistu kynttilöillä. Yleisö pääsi kokemaan teoksen yksitellen, hiekassa ryömien.
Marikki Hakola ja Lea Kantonen:
”Välitila ei ole valmis taideteos. Se muuttuu katsojan edessä ja mukana. Sen tekijät ja kokijat ovat osa teosta. Välitilaa on turha määritellä johonkin taiteeseen kuuluvaksi. Se on prosessi ihmisen ja tilan välillä.”
Urbaani kuoleman viiva
Turppi-ryhmä jatkoi toimintaa Lehtimäen symposiumin jälkeen. Ryhmän jäsenistä Marikki Hakolalla ja Lea Kantosella oli työhuoneet Katajanokalla – Venäjän Tsaarin aikaisessa ränsistyneessä Merikasarmi-rakennuksessa. Kasarmin tilat toimivat Suomen Taideakatemian maalauksen opiskelijoiden työtiloina. Syksyllä 1982 Taideakatemian koulun varsinainen opetustoiminta päättyi Merikasarmin tiloissa. Tällöin opiskelijat saivat entistä laajemmin tilat yksityiseen työhuonekäyttöönsä.
Merikasarmista tuli seuraavan Turppi-ryhmän videon kuvauspaikka. Videoteos Deadline (1983, 17 min.) kuvattiin sen vanhalla teloituspihalla ja Turppi-ryhmän Merikasarmin sisätiloihin rakentamassa Kasvihuoneessa. Videota varten kuvattiin materiaalia myös Helsingin keskustan tuolloin rakenteilla olevan Forum -kauppakeskuksen rakennustyömaalla. Turppi-ryhmään liittyi kuvausten myötä Martti Kukkonen, joka esiintyy Deadline -videon teloituspihakohtauksessa.
Deadline teoksen idea syntyi tuhottavaksi tuomittujen vanhojen rakennusten katoamiseen liittyvistä tuntemuksista. Myös Merikasarmia uhkasi osittainen purku. Tämä tarkoitti Turppi-ryhmän jäsenille lähestyviä lähtöpasseja tärkeiksi taiteellisen toiminnan tiloiksi muodostuneilta työhuoneilta.
Suhde kasarmitiloihin olikin kaksijakoinen. Toisaalta purkaminen ja tietoisuus lähestyvästä luopumisesta aiheutti surua. Toisaalta purkutuomion takia tiloja oli mahdollista työstää vapaasti ja ottaa tilat osaksi taiteellista prosessia.
Deadline teoksen toteutukseen vaikutti Tarkovskin Stalker elokuvan (1979) henki. Merikasarmi oli samanlainen alue kuin Stalkerin zone, kahden eri historiallisen vaiheen välinen paikka, jossa mennyt maailma on vielä koettavissa, mutta uusi aika on vasta aavistettavissa. Taiteilijoiden työskentely näiden kahden maailman välissä muodosti erityisen henkisen tilan, ei-kenenkään-maan, johon Deadline videoteoksen sisällölliset ainekset perustuvat.
Turppi-ryhmä rakensi Merikasarmille Kasvihuone-installaation, joka sanan mukaisesti kasvoi katosta lattiaan. Tilaan tuotiin maa-aineksia, kiveä, soraa, multaa. Tilaan kylvettiin vehnää ja ruohokasveja sekä istutettiin sammalta. Seinille liimattiin hiekkaa ja multaa ruohon kasvualustaksi. Seinille ripustettiin myös kankaita, joissa idätettiin ruohoa. Kasvihuone muodosti urbaanin kulttuurin keskelle rauhallisen saarekkeen.
Kasvavan luonnon tuomisessa ränsistyneen rakennuksen sisälle on yhtymäkohtia Lehtimäellä toteutettuun Lepopaikka-maataideteokseen. Kummassakin teoksessa on aiheena ihmisen runteleman ympäristön ja orgaanisen kasvun tai luonnonpaikan välinen jännite.
Deadline videoteoksessa nykyaikaisten kaupallisten kaupunkitilojen kehitys rinnastuu kolonialistiseen väkivaltaan ja alistamiseen. Raivoisa purkaminen, joka edelsi Helsingin keskustassa kauppakompleksien rakentamista ja vanhojen 1700-luvun lopun kasarmien osittainen purkaminen hävittivät ränsistyneitä rakennuksia ja rehottavia joutomaita. Mutta ne hävittivät samalla muistoja, mennyttä elämäntapaa ja elinympäristössä näkyviä historian jälkiä, aiemmista elämänmuodoista kertovia piirteitä. Deadline videoteos asettaa uusintavat luonnonvoimat vastakohdaksi urbaanin ympäristön symboloimalle loputtoman kasvun ideologialle. Teoksen musta viiva ei lopultakaan piirry elämän ja kuoleman, vaan kahden vastakkaisen maailmankuvan väliin.
Turppi-ryhmä hajosi, kun sen jäsenten kiinnostuksen kohteet suuntautuivat opintojen päättymisen myötä eri suuntiin. Lea ja Pekka Kantonen suuntautuivat Meksikon-vuosinaan yhteisötaiteeseen ja alkuperäiskansojen rituaalien dokumentointiin. Jarmo Vellonen keskittyi kuvanveistoon ja Martti Kukkonen maalaustaiteeseen. Marikki Hakola siirtyi kokonaan videotaiteen tekemiseen ja yhdisti audiovisuaalisuutta ja performatiivisuutta myöhemmissä teoksissaan. Kaikkien Turppi-ryhmään kuuluneiden taiteilijoiden nykyisestä taiteellisesta työskentelystä on kuitenkin edelleen löydettävissä monia Turppi-ryhmän aikana syntyneitä ja kehittyneitä sisällöllisiä, filosofisia ja esteettisiä lähtökohtia.
Marikki Hakolan varhaisia videoteoksia 80-luvun taiteen “Palavat tornit” näyttelyssä Kouvolan taidemuseossa 19.5.-4.9.2016
Kouvolan taidemuseo Poikilossa on 19.5.-4.9.2016 esillä 80-luvun taidetta esittelevä näyttely Palavat tornit. Näyttelyn kuraattori Timo Valjakka on valinnut esiteltäväksi 50 teosta 25 taiteilijalta, mm. Marikki Hakola, Outi Heiskanen, Leena Luostarinen, Martti Aiha, Carolus Enckell, Pekka Nevalainen, Silja Rantanen, Paul Osipow, Marianna Uutinen, Marjatta Tapiola ja Roi Vaara.
Näyttelyyn liittyy Timo Valjakan toimittama julkaisu Palavat tornit – Otteita Suomen taiteen 80-luvusta, joka avaa aikakauden henkeä laajemminkin: “Kuvataiteen 1980-luku oli käänteentekevä vuosikymmen – taidemaailmassa elettiin vapautumisen ja avautumisen aikaa. Runsaasti kuvitettu kirja tarjoaa elämyksellisiä näkökulmia taiteen kiihkeisiin vuosiin ja etsii vastauksia kysymyksiin siitä, mitä 1980-luvun taiteessa oikein tapahtui. Yksilöllisyyttä korostavat nuoret taiteilijat heittäytyivät vimmalla subjektiivisiin tunteisiin ja kokemuksiin. Uudenlaiset tekemisen tavat herättivät intohimoja: museot ja galleriat täyttyivät suurista ja voimakkaista maalauksista, arvoituksellisista veistoksista sekä monikerroksisista video- ja valokuvateoksista.”
Näyttelyssä on esillä Marikki Hakolan ohjaukset PIIPÄÄ Remix (41 min, 1987 – 2011) ja Stilleben – Milena’s Journey (5 min 30 sec, 1989). Kummankin videoteoksen musiikin on säveltänyt Kaija Saariaho.
Scaramouche at the NorrlandsOperan 12th November 2015
NorrlandsOperans Symphony Orchestra and conductor Tuomas Hannikainen will perform Scaramouche piece at the NorrlandsOperan, 12th November 2015. “Sibelianska rariteter” concert and film projections take place at the NorrlandsOperans Konsertsalen, Operaplan 5, 90108 Umeå, Sverige.
Kroma to the international growth programme LUOVIMO, 16.5.2014
Kroma Productions Ltd. has been choosen to take part in the LUOVIMO programme run by Finpro in years 2014-2015. Luovimo is an international growth programme for creative industry companies with a focus on innovative service and content business. Luovimo offers hands-on support to international growth planning and market entry and faciliates networking and shared learning between companies from different creative industry sectors. In particular, Luovimo is focused on music, film, tv/av, performing arts, design or game related industries.
Lisätietoa elokuvasta TÄÄLLÄ “Der Lindenbaum” lyhytelokuva kuvattiin ja äänitettiin lokakuussa 2013 Siuntion kirkossa ja maisemissa. Musiikin esittävät kontra-altto Qiulin Zhang ja pianisti Pami Karvonen. Ohjaus Marikki Hakola, ääni Epa Tamminen ja kamera Raimo Uunila. Tuotanto Kroma Productions Oy 2013.
“Der Lindenbaum” on yksi Franz Schubertin Winterreise laulusarjan lauluista. Winterreise (Talvinen matka) Op. 89, D 911 on sävelletty vuonna 1827 Wilhelm Müllerin runoihin. Lisätietoa Winterreise laulusarjasta TÄÄLLÄ.
KROMA – 20 vuotta elokuvia ja mediataidetta 2.11.2013
2.11.2013 klo 15:00 – 19:00 Kulttuuritalo Grand, Piispankatu 28, Porvoo. Vapaa pääsy. Tervetuloa!
Porvoolainen elokuvataiteen ja mediataiteen tuotantoyhtiö Kroma Productions Oy täyttää kaksikymmentä vuotta syksyllä 2013. Kulttuuritalo Grandissa esitetään poimintoja tuotantoyhtiön produktioista matkan varrelta. Ohjelmassa on kaksi kulttuuridokumenttia, videoteos, animaatio, musiikkielokuva ja ohjaajien keskustelu. Ohjaaja, mediataiteilija, Kroma Productions Oyn toimitusjohtaja Marikki Hakola esittelee teokset.
Musiikkidokumentti Otto Donnerista säveltäjänä ja muusikkona, käsikirjoitus Marikki Hakola ja Antti Hytti, ohjaus Marikki Hakola, kuvaus Tahvo Hirvonen, äänisuunnittelu Epa Tamminen. Dokumentissa mukana Otto Donnerin ystävät Kaj Chydenius, Juhani Aaltonen, Tapani Tamminen ja Mauri Antero Numminen.
Japanissa kuvattu draamadokumentti, käsikirjoitus ja ohjaus Minna Tarkka, kuvaus Raimo Uunila, musiikki Shoin Kanki, äänisuunnittelu Epa Tamminen, rooleissa Martti Suosalo ja Aki Suzuki (Akeno).
Musiikkielokuva, käsikirjoitus ja ohjaus Marikki Hakola, musiikki Jean Sibelius, sopraano Riikka Hakola, koreografia ja tanssi Nina Hyvärinen, kapellimestari Leif Segerstam, kuvaus Raimo Uunila, äänisuunnittelu Epa Tamminen.
KATSE JA KOSKETUS – lyhytelokuvia Moon River tapahtumassa 31.8.2013
Moon River 31.8.2013 klo 17:00 – 20:00 Bio Rex, Taidetehdas, Läntinen Aleksanterinkatu 1, Porvoo. Liput 4 €.
Moon River 2013 lyhytelokuvien ohjelmisto Bio Rexissä koostuu kahden porvoolaisen, kansainvälisesti palkitun ohjaajan, Marikki Hakolan ja Milla Moilasen lyhytelokuvista ja animaatioista. Ohjaajien töitä yhdistää vahva visuaalisuus ja kiinnostus yhteistyöhön tanssi- ja säveltaiteilijoiden kanssa. Elokuvista on koostettu kolme näytöstä. Klo 17:00 alkava näytös sopii hyvin koululaisille ja nuorille. Elokuvat on tuottanut porvoolainen tuotantoyhtiö Kroma Productions Oy.
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OHJELMA
Fantasia ja musiikki (57 min) klo 17:00
LUMOTTU LAPSI ohjaus Marikki Hakola (47 min) 2004, K-7
Maurice Ravelin pienoisoopperaan perustuva musiikki- ja tanssielokuva.
Taiteidenvälisen tilausteoksen säveltäjä in kitaristi Marzi Nyman ja urkutaiteilija Kalevi Kiviniemi. Alppitorvi Carlo Torlontano. Jouset Electra String Quartet.
Moottoripyörää konsertossa kaasutteli Riku Routo, Suomen Moottoripyörämuseon perustaja. Konserton yhtenä solistisena esiintyjänä nähdäänkin vahvasti kustomoitu Harley Davidson moottoripyörä, jonka pakoputket muuntuvat urkupillistöksi.
Motorgan konserton visualisointi videoprojisoinneilla, suunnittelu ja ohjaus mediataiteilija Marikki Hakola, kuvaus ja leikkaus Raimo Uunila. Video-osuuksien tuotanto Kroma Productions Oy.
“Motorgan konserton live keikkoja ollaan viemässä mm. Lontooseen, Brightoniin, Berliiniin ja Pietariin” kertoo Lahden Urkuviikkojen johtaja Erkki Krohn.
Ullan tarina / Ullas saga
Ullan tarina – Ullas saga
Production Years: 2009-2012
Genre: Web site / Multimedia
Master Format: Flash Animation
Audio: Stereo
Languages: Finnish / Swedish
”Ullan tarina” multimediaohjelma on Porvoon valtiopaivien 200-vuotisjuhlille valmistettu multimedia. Sen pohjalta valmistettiin 2012 verkkosivusto www.ullantarina.fi / www.ullassaga.fi.
”Ullan tarina” on löytöretki oikean ja todellisen Ulla Möllersvärdin elämään, joka on hukkunut romanttisten legendojen ja tarinoiden taakse. Ulla Möllersvärdistä kerrottiin jo hänen elinaikanaan toinen toistaan värikkäämpiä tarinoita ja juoruja, jotka pohtivat hänen syntyperäänsä ja suhdettaan keisari Aleksanteri I:seen. Näiden tarinoiden todenperäisyydestä ei enää kukaan pysty sanomaan varmaa totuutta. ”Ullan tarina” yrittää erotella toisistaan juorun ja faktan. Multimediaesityksestä löytyy ns. juorusoitin, jonka avulla käyttäjä pääsee kuuntelemaan Ullaan liittyviä dramatisoituja juoruja. Näiden juorujen rinnalla kulkevat historialliseen faktaan perustuvat artikkelit, jotka valottavat Ullan elämää ja Porvoon valtiopäivien tapahtumia. Ulla Möllersvärd halusi jäädä mysteeriksi, sillä hän tuhosi mm. kirjeenvaihtonsa ennen kuolemaansa. Ullan hahmon kautta avautuu kuitenkin kiehtova näkökulma valtiopäivien historiallisiin tapahtumiin. Projektin tuotantoa ovat tukeneet Porvoon kaupunki ja Porvoon valtiopäivien juhlatoimikunta.
Credits Käsikiroitus, ohjaus: Liina Toiviainen
Sisällön tuotanto / artikkelit: Porvoon museo / Merja Herranen
Sisällön tuotanto / kuvatoimitus: Porvoon museo / Hannele Tenhovuori
Multimedian ja web siten toteutus: Studio Silaus / Camilla Sirén
Käännökset /artikkelit: Markus Sandberg
Käännökset / runo: Runotassu Kielipalvelut / Jaana Palanterä
Ääniroolit: Gun Wasenius-Hietanen, Stefan Paavola
Äänisuunnittelu: Epa Tamminen
Piano: Maarit Nortamo
Tuotanto: Marikki Hakola / Kroma Productions Oy 2009 – 2012
Tilaaja museomultimedia: Porvoon museo
Tilaaja web site: Porvoon kaupunki / Matkailupalvelut
Marikki Hakola’s Exhibition MEDIENKUNST & MUSIKFILME at the Suomesta Galerie in Berlin 3.-28.11.2012
Marikki Hakola’s solo exhibition at the Suomesta Galerie in Berlin shows four of her recent media art works and music films. The works at the exhibition include an interactive installation MOLOCH and music and dance films LUONNOTAR, BUTTERFLY LOVERS and L’ENFANT ET LES SORTILÈGES. For more information, please check gallery site and project sites. Marikki Hakola is working as a media artist, film director and producer. Her works, beginning in 1981, include dance and music films, video art, installations, multimedia art and documentaries. Hakola‚s works are in courtesy of many international museums and collections and many of the films have been broadcasted and screened internationally in television and festivals.
PIIPÄÄ REMIX EXHIBITION AT THE EMMA MUSEUM 5.4.-28.8.2011
PIIPÄÄ Remix Exhibition took place at the Museum of Modern Art EMMA in Espoo, Finland, 5.4.-28.8.2011 showing the video work PIIPÄÄ REMIX (1987-2011) and still pictures by media artist Marikki Hakola.
More information about the PIIPÄÄ project and the performance:
Piipää Remix & Stilleben – Milena’s Journey shown at the international symposium on Kaija Saariaho’s music
PIIPÄÄ REMIX (1987-remasteroitu 2011) ja STILLEBEN – MILENA’S JOURNEY (1989 – remasteroitu 2012) videoteokset esitetään Kaija Saariaho Sympoiumissa Musiikkitalossa 13.9.2012. Videoteoksissa on Kaija Saariahon säveltämä musiikki ja Marikki Hakolan ohjaus.
Lisätietoa: Kaija Saariaho Symposium
PIIPÄÄ REMIX (1987- remastered 2011) and STILLEBEN – MILENA’S JOURNEY (1989 – remastered 2012) video works are in the programme of the Kaija Saariaho Sympoium at the Musiikkitalo in Helsinki, 13.9.2012. In both video works music is composed by Kaija Saariaho and direction is by Marikki Hakola.
Further information: Kaija Saariaho Symposium
”IHMISLUONTO – lyhytelokuvia Porvoosta” on neljän lyhytelokuvan kokonaisuus. Elokuvien ohjaajat ovat porvoolaisia. Elokuvat on tuotettu porvoolaisin voimin ja kuvattu porvoolaisissa maisemissa ja paikoissa. Elokuvia yhdistää myös ihmisen, kulttuurin, miljöön ja luonnon suhdetta käsittelevät teemat. LUONNOTAR vie katsojan kalevalaiseen mytologiaan ja virtuaaliseen luontoon, SCALE pohtii sukupolvien kiertokulkua, CONTRA etsii luonnon symboliikasta ihmissuhteiden tasapainoa ja ÖLJYÄ LAINEILLA dokumentti kuvaa luonnonvarojen kasvavaa hyödyntämistä. Sarjan on kuratoinut Marikki Hakola.
LUONNOTAR
Ohjaus Marikki Hakola, fiktio / animaatio (10 min) 2010
Luonnotar on musiikkielokuva, joka tulkitsee uudella tavalla Kalevalan myytin maailman synnystä. Elokuvan soundtrackillä kuullaan Jean Sibeliuksen sinfoninen runo “Luonnotar” sopraanolle ja orkesterille. Magnusborgin Studioilla Porvoossa kuvatut sopraano ja tanssija on yhdistetty tietokoneanimaation keinoin toteutettuihin virtuaalisiin lavastuksiin. Käsikirjoitus ja ohjaus Marikki Hakola, sopraano Riikka Hakola, koreografi ja tanssija Nina Hyvärinen, kapellimestari Leif Segerstam, Slovakian radion sinfoniaorkesteri, animaatio Katriina Ilmaranta, äänisuunnittelu Epa Tamminen, kuvaus Raimo Uunila. Tuotanto Marikki Hakola / Kroma Productions Oy. www.luonnotar.fi
SCALE
Ohjaus Milla Moilanen, fiktio / animaatio (8 min 25 sec) 1996
Scale yhdistelee perinteisiä ja moderneja animaatiotekniikoita: 35 mm still-kuvia on siirretty digitaaliseen formaattiin ja animoitu koneella. Teos on kuin liikkuva valokuva-albumi paljastaen katkelmia ihmiselämistä. Dramaturgia perustuu enemmän tunteeseen kuin perinteiseen kerrontaan. Kuvastossa on aineksia Porvoon miljööstä. Kuvaukset on toteutettu Magnusborgin Studioilla Porvoossa. Käsikirjoitus, ohjaus ja animaatiot Milla Moilanen, editointi Raimo Uunila, musiikki Arto Tamminen, äänisuunnittelu Epa Tamminen. Tuotanto Outi Rousu / Kroma Productions Oy. www.av-arkki.fi/teokset/scale/
CONTRA
Ohjaus Raimo Uunila, fiktio (9 min) 2001
Contran teemana on voima ja tasapaino, jota etsitään kisailun keinoin. Teoksen vuorovaikutusosat esittävät toiston tilaan asetettuja hahmoja; vääntämistä, vetämistä, pumppaamista, uimista, hiihtämistä ja soutamista. Contra on kuvattu Porvoonjoen maisemissa ja Magnusborgin studioilla. Käsikirjoitus, ohjaus, kuvaus, leikkaus Raimo Uunila, äänisuunnittelu Epa Tamminen. Tuotanto Marikki Hakola / Kroma Productions Oy. www.av-arkki.fi/teokset/contra/
ÖLJYÄ LAINEILLA Ohjaus Petteri Saario, dokumentti (30 min) 2006
Meret ovat ruuhkaisempia kuin koskaan. Niillä kulkee valtava määrä tavaraa ja matkustajia, ja myös niiden taloudellinen merkitys on kasvanut huimasti. Kun meriliikenne lisääntyy, kasvaa myös onnettomuuksien riski. Ensimmäisessä Rajankäyntiä-sarjan dokumentissa Öljyä laineilla matkustetaan dokumentintekijä Petteri Saarion mukana Nesteen lippulaivalla Temperalla Suomen suurimmasta öljysatamasta Porvoon Kilpilahdesta Itämeren suurimpaan öljysatamaan Venäjän Primorskiin, entiseen Koivistoon. Käsikirjoitus, ohjaus, kuvaus Petteri Saario, musiikki Perttu Hietanen, Tuotanto Tiina ja Petteri Saario / DocArt Ky. www.wildfin.com/rajankayntia/osa1.php
Akeno Project Vol 7.
Choreographer, Performer: Aki Suzuki (Akeno) Genre: Telepresence Performance, Media Art
Production Year: 1999
Master Format: ISDN Net Casting
Audio: Stereo
Synopsis
Media artist Marikki Hakola and musicians of the Otná Eahket band Antti Hytti, Jouni Takamäki ja Tom Nekljudov produced a live audiovisual netcasting by using ISDN connection from Magnusborg Studios (Porvoo, Finland) to the Somido Center (Tokyo, Japan). The audiovisual netcasting was part of the telepresence performance by choreographer, dancer Akeno. Film photographer Raimo Uunila and multimedia designer Riku Makkonen and a group of young artists of Magnusborg also took part in the visual and technical production.
The telepresence performance took place in Magnusborg Studios, Porvoo, Finland on Sunday March 14th 1999 at 11.00 am – 13.30 pm Finnish tile, and at the same time at the Somido Center, Tokyo, Japan.
Credits
Choreography and Dance: Akeno and Tomoe Shizune & Hakutobo
Visual Design: Marikki Hakola, Raimo Uunila, Riku Makkonen
Assistants: Liina Toiviainen, Mika Tyyskä, Lauri Virkki, L Peisa, O Eira
Music: Otná Eahket Band / Antti Hytti, Jouni Takamäki, Tom Nekljudov
Audio Technicians: Pave Molnar, PP Kortelainen, Tom Lönnström
Sponsor: Sonera Oy
Production Network: Hakutobo (Tokyo), Kroma Productions,
Mangtone Oy, P.Jyrälä Oy, Bandservice Oy, BHK
Anna from Benin
The African part of the six documentary film series Girls around the World
Director: Monique Phoba Genre: Documentary
Duration: 30 min. / 45 min.
Production Year: 2000
Master Format: DigiBeta
Audio: Stereo
Distributor in Scandinavia:
Kroma Productions Ltd.
Synopsis
“Anna from Benin” is an extraordinary portrait of an extraordinary 17-year-old. Anna is one of 31 children that her father has had with 5 wives. As the star of her family´s orchestra, The Tek Stars, she went to study in France on scholarship – a rare event in Central Africa, where most girls don´t get the opportunity to get an education. As a result the entire country´s hopes are pinned on her success. This beautiful documentary focuses on Anna´s struggles as an independent teenager with a domineering father in Central Africa and as an African teenager in France without the protection of her siblings and her five mothers. Original language French/Mina.
Credits
Script and direction: Monique Phoba
Camera: Valérie Le Gurun
Editing: Calle Overweg
Supervising Editor: Bettina Böhler
Sound Recording: Issa Traoré Senior
Sound Design: Epa Tamminen
Music: Anna Teko, Eric Teko
Producers: Gaëlle Guiny, Pascale Schmidt, Brenda Parkerson, Marikki Hakola
Commissioning Editors: Udo Bremer, Inge Classen, Eila Werning
Co – production: Kroma Productions Ltd. (Finland), Trafik Film (Germany), Lagunimages, O.R.T.B
In association with: ZDF/3sat, YLE TV1, Euroarts Entertainment, AVEK
Production: Karaba Productions 2000
Girls around the World
“Anna from Benin” is one of the six part documentary series GIRLS AROUND THE WORLD. It is a collection of extraordinary documentaries on seventeen-year-old girls across the globe. Each focuses on one girl – her hopes and dreams,world and worldview. Directed by local women filmmakers in Peru, Pakistan, Benin, China, Germany and Finland, a mosaic emerges that not only depicts the great diversity in the lives of these girls, but also embodies the perspectives of an international roster of contemporary female film makers. Production: Trafik Film (Germany), Kroma Productions (Finland), Karaba Productions (France) In association with: ZDF/3sat, YLE TV1, Euroarts Entertainment, AVEK.
ARS 4 YOU
Director: Milla Moilanen Genre: Art Documentary, TV series
Duration: 20 x 5 min.
Production Year: 2001
Master Format: Beta SP PAL
Audio: Stereo
Language: Finnish / English (Finnish subtitles)
Distributor: Kroma Productions Ltd.
Synopsis ARS 4 YOU introduces 20 artists from the international exhibition ARS 01 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland. Contemporary artists from all over the world, all together 73, are participating ARS01 exhibition. The theme for the exhibition is the third space which consists of the confrontation of different cultures. As an object for the exhibition is the increasing interaction of cultures which follows unpreventably the massive migration and the radical change of information situation. The selected artists speak about their art and works. The series was made for giving the audience details and backgound information of the exhibition in Kiasma. ARS 4 YOU presents artists whose works have been effected by several cultures, e.g. Anish Kapoor, Elina Brotherus, Surasi Kusolwong, Markus and Seppo Renvall, Santiago Sierra, Mella Jaarsma and Ernesto Neto.
Director: Marikki Hakola & Raimo Uunila
Genre: Music Clip
Duration: 5 min. 45 sec.
Production Year: 1995
Master Format: Beta SP PAL
Audio: Stereo
Synopsis
The music clip NELJÄN RUUHKA describes the observators glances in the crowd. All this happens at the rush hours in Helsinki. The idea of the visuality is to show the city as an everyday observatory in which destinies lightly touch each other. An endless flow – light impressions – momentary observations – feelings and athmosphere taking shape. A subjective look catches peoples, persons, busy and lazy walkers, wanderers absorbed in thoughts.
Music Credits
Music, lyrics: Arto Tamminen
Arranged by: Kaartamo / Tamminen
Song, cello, harpsischord, electric guitar: Arto Tamminen
Acoustic guitar, grand piano, bass, drums: Anssi Nykänen
Recording: Esa Kaartamo, Jone Ullakko
Recording and mixing: Dan Tigerstedt
Music producer: Esa Kaartamo
From the record: “Kadonneen Saaren Laulukirja”
Published by: Bmg Ariola Ltd.
As a Matter of Fat
Media Artist: Pekka Niskanen Genre: Installation, Video Art, Experimental
Duration: Loop
Production Year: 1998
Master Format: Beta SP PAL 4:3
Audio: Stereo
Language: English
Distributor: Kroma Productions Ltd.
Synopsis The media installation describes the family´s internal relationships by the interaction of text, image and music. The four songs deal with family dynamics from a child´s point of view. The songs are concerned with children´s observations of both themselves as well as people who are not normally part of the family circle and ideas that are foreign to the family´s internal world. Unusual bodily features or strange behaviour of the other family members are observed without any preconceived expectations.
Credits Script, direction, visual design and offline editing: Pekka Niskanen Sound design: Timo Muurinen Video photography and editing: Raimo Uunila Music: Timo Muurinen, Jani Koskela, Mika Karhunen, Niko Ronimus, Jenny Robson Actors: Jenny Robson, Stig Baumgartner, Hanne Ivars, Ville Koponen, Miikka Huttunen Producers: Marikki Hakola and Tove Hagman / Kroma Productions Ltd. 1998
Barcarola
Director: Antonia Ringbom Genre: Short film
Duration: 6 min. 30 sec.
Production Year: 2001
Master Format: DigiBeta
Audio: Stereo
Language: No language
Distributors: Kroma Productions Ltd.
Synopsis BARCAROLA is a cinematic boat journey based on music by Jean Sibelius and art of Ellen Thesleff. Both artists – Jean Sibelius and Ellen Thesleff – were inspired by the Finnish nature and both of them moved to cosmopolitan Europe by the change of centuries. Ellen Thesleff found her way to the Italian light. Jean Sibelius wrote Barcarola – a boat journey in Italian. They did not know each other. Now they have travelled in the same boat.
Script, direction: Antonia Ringbom
Photography: Pekka Uotila Editing: Raimo Uunila Graphic: Riku Makkonen Colourist: Marko Terävä Music: Jean Sibelius, Op.24 Record : Jean Sibelius / Works for piano, publisher Ondine Piano: Ralf Gothoni Co producer: YLE TV1 / FST Producer: Sanna-Kaisa Hakkarainen / KROMA Productions Ltd. 2001
Borgar och slott i Västra Nyland
”Borgar och Slott i Västra Nyland” (6 x 7 min.) presenterar medeltida byggnader och slott i västra Nyland. Serien åskådliggör också olika historiska händelser och ger oss en inblick i det medeltida livet. I serien passerar ett flertal spännande historiska personligheter revy, och tittaren frestas att stifta närmare bekantskap inte bara med deras liv och levnadsvanor, utan överlag med Västra Nylands lokalhistoria och olika historiska händelser med återspeglingar ända in i vår tid.
1. Raseborg – byggandet Raseborg är en av de mest betydande medeltida byggnaderna i Finland. Det var sannolikt drotsen Bo Jonsson Grip som lät bygga slottet i mitten av 1370-talet. I det första avsnittet av serien Borgar och Slott i Västra Nyland behandlas byggandet av Raseborgs slott och dess olika skeden.
2. Raseborg – mat, dryck och kanoner Det vardagliga livet i Raseborgs slott och dess omgivning presenteras via slottsherren, smeden och den vanlige bonden. Avsnittet skildrar måltider, mattillredning, matanskaffning samt olika arbeten och sysslor och skapar därigenom en bild av det medeltida samhällets sociala struktur.
3. Junkarsborg – borgläger Junkarsborg hör till våra nationellt betydande fornlämningar och är också en av de bäst bevarade medeltida jordvallsfästningarna. Avsnittet behandlar Junkarsborg och soldatlivet på medeltiden.
4. Grabbacka och Gennäs herrgårdar – det offentliga livet på herrgårdarna Grabbacka herrgårdsslott i Karis socken och Gennäs adelsgård vid Degersjö i Pojo socken har beröringspunkter med två betydande adelsmän i Finlands historia: Nils Grabbe från Grabbacka och Nils Boije från Gennäs. Bägge hörde till Gustav Vasas förtrodda.
5. Sjundby och Svidja adelsgods – familjen och dess kontaktnät Det fanns två stora adelsherrgårdar i Sjundeå: Svidja slott lite norr om Sjundeå kyrka och Sjundby slott på Sjundbyåns östra strand. Tv-seriens femte avsnitt skildrar livet på de två adelsslotten.
6. Ekenäs slott Slottsruinen i Ekenäs är belägen på Slottsbacken precis i centrum av staden. Byggnadsarbetena påbörjades sannolikt i slutet av 1500-talet men slottet blev aldrig färdigt. Det sista avsnittet av serien behandlar slutet av medeltiden samt granskar relationerna mellan svenska kungen och ståthållarna i Finland.
Arbetsgrupp Manus och regi: LIINA TOIVIAINEN
Experter: DAN LINDHOLM, VESA KILJO, HENRIK JANSSON, GEORG HAGGRÉN
Foto RAIMO UUNILA
Stillbild och grafik: CAMILLA SIRÉN
Ljud: EPA TAMMINEN
Musik: PASI RITA
Uppläsning: STEFAN PAAVOLA, BIRTHE WINGREN
Översättning: MATS HULDÉN, MARKUS SANDBERG
Administration: JAANA HERTELL-AMOKRANE
Assistenter: ANNA SARKAMA, OSKAR EKLÖF
Miniatyr av Raseborg: TAINA PAALOS
Bildkällor: MUSEIVERKET, FINLANDS NATIONALMUSEUM, FINLANDS NATIONALBIBLIOTEK, FINLANDS RIKSARKIV, EKENÄS MUSEUM, RASEBORGS GILLET, KUNGLIGA BIBLIOTEKET / STOCKHOLM, RIKSARKIVET / STOCKHOLM, KRIGSARKIVET / STOCKHOLM, HENRIK JANSSON, GEORG HAGGRÉN, KARI UOTILA, LENTOKUVA VALLAS OY, SATAKUNTA MUSEUM, FINLANDS GLASMUSEUM, CHYDENIUSINSTITUTET, STATENS KONSTMUSEUM
I samarbete med: EKENÄS MUSEUM / DAN LINDHOLM
I samarbete med: YLE FST SAMPRODUKTIONER / LOTTA WIGELIUS-WULFF
Produktionsstöd: SVENSKA KULTURFONDEN
Producent: MARIKKI HAKOLA
Produktion: KROMA PRODUCTIONS AB
Butterfly Lovers
Director: Marikki Hakola
Genre: Dance and Music Film
Duration: 29 min.
Production Year: 2005
Master Format: Digital Beta PAL 16:9
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1. and Stereo
Language: No
Distributor: Kroma Productions Ltd., Naxos/Marco Polo (DVD, online)
Butterfly Lovers is a music and dance film. It is a synthesis of the ever-popular Chinese violin concerto “Butterfly Lovers” and choreography inspired by Chinese martial arts and modern dance. The film is an imaginative interpretation of the ancient Chinese fairy tale – “A Love Story of Liang Shan Bo and Zhu Ying Tai”. The film features violinist Takako Nishizaki, conductor James Judd, choreographer and dancer Dou Dou, dancer Ding Yue Hong and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
Credits
Script, Direction, Editing: Marikki Hakola
Music Composition: He Zhan-Hao & Chen Gang
Choreography: Huang Dou Dou
Violinist: Takako Nishizaki
Conductor: James Judd
Orchestra: The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra NZSO
Dance: Dou Dou, Ding Yuehong
Camera: Raimo Uunila, Marikki Hakola
Photography: Epa Tamminen, Marikki Hakola
Sound Design: Epa Tamminen
Picture Compositing, Online Editing: Sami Haartemo
Executive Producer: Marikki Hakola
Production Company: Kroma Productions Ltd 2005
Awards
Honorary mention in the Shorts Category, Banff Definition, Canada 2006
Butterfly Tones
Director: Marikki Hakola
Duration: 00:40:00
Production Year: 2005
Genre: Music Documentary
Master Format: DigiBeta
Audio: Stereo
Language: English / Chinese
(Finnish and English Subtitles)
Synopsis Butterfly Tones is an interview documentary, that opens the background of the violin concerto composed by He Zhan Hao and Chen Gang and the fictional dance and music film Butterfly Lovers based on the composition. Composer Chen Gang describes the birth of the violin concerto which brings together music traditions from the Eastern and the Western music cultures. Violinist Takako Nishizaki talks about her career and ponders the interpretation of music. Conductor James Judd analyzes the composition and tells how he sees the work of a conductor. Researcher of literature, professor Zeng Kang Mei reveals the birth of ”The Love Story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai” and its significant importance to Chinese. She tells about the Yuyan opera and the position of a woman in Chinese culture over different periods. The choreographer Dou Dou considers the art of dance and the meaning of it and explains the base of the choreography of ”Butterfly Lovers” as well as the role of a solo dancer. The documentary is designed and directed by Marikki Hakola. Produced by Kroma Productions Ltd. 2005.
Director: Marikki Hakola Genre: Video Art, Dance Video Duration: 23 min. 30 sec. Production Year: 1999 Master Format: Beta SP Audio: Stereo Language: No language Distributors: Kroma Productions Ltd.
SYNOPSIS
CONTINUUM is a dance video on a theme of war, power and violence. In the world of Continuum people live and die in circumstances, where civilization is only a gauze misting the sight in the reality of violence. In a continuous process – continuum – violence spreads out from individual acts into structural forms of violence in society and reflects back again in individual human destinations. CONTINUUM is a description of a crisis, where everybody is a victim. The form of the dance video CONTINUUM refers to media, which shows us glimpses of war in the daily flow of information. Authentic materials shot in the war zones and illusions recorded in a studio are made parallel, challenging the spectator to evaluate the concepts of reality and fiction. CONTINUUM is a media artist Marikki Hakola’s audiovisual interpretation of a dance performance “Requiem” by choreographer Sanna Kekäläinen.
CREDITS
Script and Direction: Marikki Hakola
Choreography: Sanna Kekäläinen
Dancers: Sanna Kekäläinen, Anna Airaksinen, Simo Heiskanen, Jatta Lukkari, Kai Lähdesmäki, Janne Marja-Aho, Mika Backlund, Ville Sormunen
Camera: Raimo Uunila
Sound Design: Epa Tamminen
Editing: Marikki Hakola, Raimo Uunila
Music: W A Mozart, Shoin Kanki
Costumes: Riitta Röpelinen, Milla Moilanen, Suvi Soitinaho
Producer: Marikki Hakola
KROMA Productions Ltd. 1999
The video art work Continuum forms part of Marikki Hakola’s doctoral degree (DA) at Aalto University.
The video art work Continuum is at the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki.
Awards: State Quality Award ’99, National Council for Cinema, Finland
Contra
Media Artist: Raimo Uunila Genre: Short Fiction, Video Art, Experimental
Duration: 9 min.
Production Year: 2001
Master Format: Beta SP PAL 4:3,
Audio: Stereo
Language: No language
Distributor: Grape Productions Ltd.
Synopsis ”Contra” is made up of scenes looking for mental and physical balance and goals understood as various alternatives. In Contra life forces and their counter forces are played out against each other. The narration of Contra is based on the dramaturgy of symbolic level of situations and actions.
Credits Script, Direction, Photography and Editing: Raimo Uunila
Sound Design and Sound Mix: Epa Tamminen
Lighting: Jouni Lähteenaho
Camera: Raimo Uunila, Riku Makkonen
Underwater Camera: Atte Kaartinen
Production Manager: Suvi Soitinaho
Producers: Marikki Hakola, Raimo Uunila
Production: Kroma Productions Ltd 2001
Contra (installation)
Media Artist: Raimo Uunila
Genre: Installation, Video Art, Experimental
Duration: 11 min. loop
Production Year: 2001
Master Format: 3 screens, Beta SP PAL 4:3,
Audio: Stereo
Language: No language
Distributor: Grape Productions Ltd.
Synopsis
”Contra” is made up of scenes looking for mental and physical balance and goals understood as various alternatives. In Contra life forces and their counter forces are played out against each other. The narration of Contra is based on the dramaturgy of symbolic level of situations and actions.
Credits Script, Direction, Photography and Editing: Raimo Uunila
Sound Design and Sound Mix: Epa Tamminen
Lighting: Jouni Lähteenaho
Camera: Raimo Uunila, Riku Makkonen
Underwater Camera: Atte Kaartinen
Production Manager: Suvi Soitinaho
Producers: Marikki Hakola, Raimo Uunila / KROMA Productions Ltd 2001
Cricket
Director: Marikki Hakola Genre: Video Art, Experimental
Duration: 7 min.
Production Year: 1987-1988
Master Format: PRO RES HQ, PAL 4:3
Audio: Stereo
Language: No
Distributor: Kroma Productions Ltd.
Cricket is a dystopia, which tells about a breakdown of the psyche in a pressure of the totalitarian information society. In the world of the video work Cricket, the human attributes and qualities of the personality vanish. Cricket is one of the three video works trilogy based on a large audiovisual Performance Piipää. The trilogy includes Telephone (1990), Cricket (1988) and Gyrus (1989). The trilogy is in the courtesy of the Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma, Helsinki. Cricket is also part of the Piipää Remix, a digital remastering of the video materials originally from the Piipää performance 1987.
Credits Direction, Editing: Marikki Hakola
Music: Kaija Saariaho
Performers: Ari Tenhula, Sanna Kekäläinen, Kirsi Monni and Tiina Helisten.
Production: Marikki Hakola / Kaligari Oy 1987-1989
Digital Re-Production: Kroma Productions Ltd 2011
The Perugian part of the six documentary film series Girls around the World
Director: Maria Barea
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 30 min. / 45 min.
Production Year: 1998
Master Format: DigiBeta
Audio: Stereo
Distributor in Scandinavia: Kroma Productions Ltd.
Synopsis
“Daughters of War” documents the life of Gabriela, the leader of a girl gang and mother of a 7 month old daughter.Gabriela lives in Ayacucho, Peru, the former Maoist guerrilla stronghold ravaged by civil war in the 1980´s. Her mother mysteriously disappeared when Gabriela was five. She and her sister were passed to their Grandmother who didn´t want them. Violence, neglect and abuse drove Gabriela to the streets where survival meant fighting with knives and stealing. Her story is typical for the region where many children lost their parents to the civil war or the drug trade. Gabriela is leader of a gang of girls with similar histories. They have grown so used to violence and abuse that they no longer recognise when they are victims to it. Her daughter is named after her mother, Evila and is the only person Gabriela trusts. Original language: Spanish.
Credits Script, Direction: Maria Barea
Camera: Sophie Maintignuex, Micaela Cajhuaringa
Sound: Rosa Maria Oliari
Editor: Stephan Sautter, Uwe Gebert
Lighting: Artemio RuizCo-production: Kroma Productions Ltd. (Finland), Karaba Productions (France)
In association with: ZDF/3sat, YLE TV1, Euroarts Entertainment, AVEK
Production: Trafik film 1998
Girls around the World
“Daughters of War” is one of the six part documentary series GIRLS AROUND THE WORLD. It is a collection of extraordinary documentaries on seventeen-year-old girls across the globe. Each focuses on one girl – her hopes and dreams,world and worldview. Directed by local women filmmakers in Peru, Pakistan, Benin, China, Germany and Finland, a mosaic emerges that not only depicts the great diversity in the lives of these girls, but also embodies the perspectives of an international roster of contemporary female film makers. Production: Trafik Film (Germany), Kroma Productions (Finland), Karaba Productions (France) In association with: ZDF/3sat, YLE TV1, Euroarts Entertainment, AVEK.
Deadline
Director: Turppi Group Genre: Video Art, Performance Duration: 17 min. Production Year: 1983 Master Format: PRO RES HQ, PAL 4:3 Audio: Stereo Language: No language Distributors: Kroma Productions Ltd. AV-arkki
The video work Deadline, the second video piece of the Turppi Group, was shot in Helsinki, at Katajanokka, in a worn-out Sea Barracks building from the days of Czarist Russia. Shootings were made in the exterior of the old execution yard of Sea Barracks and in the “Greenhouse” that Turppi Group had been built inside of the Sea Barracks interiors. Material for the video was shot also at the building site of large department store Forum that was being built in downtown Helsinki at that time.
The idea for work “Deadline” was born from the feelings associated with the disappearance of old buildings that had been doomed to demolition. There were several wrecking crews rampaging at the downtown Helsinki. Old poetic buildings were being cleared away to make space for new shopping buildings. Turppi Group built an installation “Greenhouse” at the Sea Barracks, which was literally growing from roof to floor. Earth ingredients, stones, rubble, mould were brought to this space. The space was sowed with wheat and grass plants, moss was planted. Sand and mould were glued on walls for the grass to grow upon. Cloths were also hanged upon the walls, on which grass was planted. The “Greenhouse” was documented on the video work “Deadline.” The “Greenhouse” formed a peaceful islet in the midst of an urban culture.
In the video work “Deadline”, the development of modern commercial city spaces is compared with colonial violence and oppression. The rabid demolition which preceded the building of Helsinki downtown’s commercial complexes and the partial demolition of late 18th century barracks devastated decrepitness and worn-out wastelands. But at the same time, they destroyed also memories, past way of life and signs of history seen in living environment, qualities that tell us about other forms of life. The video work “Deadine” presents the renewing powers of nature as the antithesis of the ideology of endless growth symbolized by urban environment. The black line of the work – deadline – is not in the end drawn between life and death, but between two opposite worldviews.
Director: Milla Moilanen
Genre: Animation
Duration: 6 min.
Production Year: 1994
Master Format: Beta SP PAL 4:3
Audio: Stereo
Language: No language
Distributor: Kroma Productions Ltd.
Synopsis
DEEP is a computer animation about a human being. The skeletons all appear alike until we can see the skin that covers them. The body is made up of bones, muscles, skin and hair: certain elements are common to every species. We resemble each other much more closely than we would like to think.
Awards: State Quality Award ’95 , National Council for Cinema, Finland
Don’t Ask Why
The Pakistani part of the six documentary film series Girls around the World
Director: Sabiha Sumar
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 30 min. / 45 min.
Production Year: 1999
Master Format: DigiBeta
Audio: Stereo
Distributor in Scandinavia: Kroma Productions Ltd.
Synopsis
Anousheh lives with her strict Muslim parents and two brothers in Karachi, Pakistan. At 17, she is at an age where daughters are usually married off. But Anousheh wants to study and refuses to accept the restrictions her religion and culture have imposed on her personal freedom. It causes conflict with her mother and lengthy discussions with her father about the interpretation of the Koran and its position on the role of women in society. Her desire to be “as free as her brothers” is drawing her close to the Islamic political party, Jamaat-i-Islami which, although dominated by men, promises the liberating power of Islam for both men and women. The film allows Anousheh as she struggles to realise her dreams and cope with her share of disappointment. It is a beautifully realised and rare portrait of girls in South Asia and their relationship to Islam at the beginning of the 21´st century. Original languages Urdu/English.
Credits Script and direction: Sabiha Sumar
Camera: M. Claire Pijman, M. Iqbal, Sven Sauer
Editing: Calle Overweg
Supervising Editor: Bettina Böhler
Sound: Ludo Keeris, G M Chand
Music: Sawan Dutta
Producers: Pascale Schmidt, Brenda Parkerson
Co-producers: Gaëlle Guiny, Outi Rousu, Bernd Hellthaler
Co-production Kroma Productions (Finland), Karaba Productions (France)
In association with: ZDF/3sat, YLE TV1, Euroarts Entertainment, AVEK
Production: Trafik Film 1999
Girls around the World “Don’t ask Why” is one of the six part documentary series GIRLS AROUND THE WORLD. It is a collection of extraordinary documentaries on seventeen-year-old girls across the globe. Each focuses on one girl – her hopes and dreams,world and worldview. Directed by local women filmmakers in Peru, Pakistan, Benin, China, Germany and Finland, a mosaic emerges that not only depicts the great diversity in the lives of these girls, but also embodies the perspectives of an international roster of contemporary female film makers. Production: Trafik Film (Germany), Kroma Productions (Finland), Karaba Productions (France) In association with: ZDF/3sat, YLE TV1, Euroarts Entertainment, AVEK.
Earth Contacts
Details
Director: Turppi Group Genre: Video Art, Performance Duration: 23 min. Production Year: 1982 Master Format: PRO RES HQ, PAL 4:3 Audio: Stereo Language: No language Distributors: Kroma Productions Ltd. AV-arkki
”Earth Contacts” is the first video by the Turppi Group. The video work was realized at the Lehtimäki International Land Art Symposium in the Summer 1982. The work was made by combining several different visual and body language elements developed by the Turppi Group during the symposium. Sculptural and spacial details of the land art work “Resting Place” and performative sequences involved with it were recorded on this video. “Earth Contacts” received its final esthetic form in the editing process, where different visual ingredients were turned into a dramaturgical whole.
The Turppi Group members were especially interested in natural environment, the relationship of man to nature, bodiness and physical world of experience and combining these things with the world of myths associated with natural elements and ritualistic performativity.
Tammisaaren virtuaalinen museo Ekenäs virtuella museum
Production Year: 2008
Genre: Web site / Multimedia
Master Format: Flash Animation
Audio: Stereo
Languages: Finnish / Swedish
Synopsis Ekenäs Virtual museum is based on the historical buildings and properties, that are not all available with for examble wheelchair. Now these valuable buildings can be reached and visited by browsing the virtual museum in the Internet.
Synopsis and Credits in Finnish Tammisaaren museokeskus EKTA koostuu näyttelyrakennuksen lisäksi vanhoista kulttuurihistoriallisesti arvokkaista rakennuksista, jotka eivät ole saavutettavissa mm. pyörätuolilla. Nyt näistä rakennuksista ja niiden huoneista ja esineistä on tehty virtuaalitodellisuus. Näin on mahdollista tehdä ”virtuaalikäynti” Porvaristalossa, Valokuvaamossa ja Snappertunan talomuseossa. Kohteissa voi liikkua huoneesta huoneeseen ja tutustua huonekaluihin, esineisiin ja työkaluihin. Virtuaalimuseo on myös vankka historiallinen tietopaketti kaikille kiinnostuneille ja erinomainen opetusväline koululaisille. ”Tammisaaren virtuaalimuseo” on multimediaesitys tietokoneella Tammisaaren museokeskus EKTA;n aulassa. Virtuaalimuseo löytyy myös museon kotisivuilta www.ekenas.fi/museum tai osoitteesta www.ekenas.fi/virtualmuseum.
”Porvaristalo” on ainutlaatuinen 1700-luvun kaupunkilaistalo ulkorakennusrivistöineen. Siellä järjestetään myös museon joulunäyttelyt. Huoneet ovat kahdessa kerroksessa, sisustustyyleinä kustavilainen tyyli, biedermeier ja uusrokokoo. Tällä kokonaisuudella halutaan näyttää miten varakas käsityöläinen asui ja eli 1800-luvulla. Ulkorakennusrivistössä on muun muassa talli, navetta ja vaunuvaja. Porvaristalossa voi myös tutustua kellosepän työpajaan, hänen työkaluihinsa ja kelloihin. Lyhyt videoesitys, jossa esiintyy kelloseppä Anders Blomqvist ja hänen piikansa, elävöittää omalta osaltaan Porvaristalon historiaa.
Valokuvaamo on valokuvamuseo, jossa voi tehdä aikamatkan ja tutustua valokuvaajan työtilaan ja välineisiin 1940-luvun lopulta. Tilat koostuvat ateljeesta, pimiöstä sekä myymälästä 1940-luvulla valokuvaajat olivat käsityöläisiä, jotka kehittivät sekä omat filmirullansa että paikallisten amatöörivalokuvaajien filmit. Museossa on myös kameranäyttely, jossa on esillä noin viitisenkymmentä jokamiehenkameraa, joihin ”virtuaalikävijä” voi tutustua. Esillä on myös mm. valonheitin, jonka peltiseppä Johannes Söderlund valmisti 1920-luvulla Harald Holmströmin ateljeehen. Valoheittimen jalka on tehty auton jarrurummusta.
Snappertunan talomuseo on pieni ulkoilmamuseo Snappertunan kirkonkylässä,15 km Tammisaaresta itään Raaseporin linnan läheisyydessä. Museo esittelee elämää 1800-luvun puolivälin saaristotilalla. Museo koostuu useasta rakennuksesta, joista päärakennuksen vanhimmat osat ovat peräisin 1700-luvulta. Museossa voi myös tutustua naulan taontaan sepän pajassa tai kehräämiseen rukilla, joka oli tärkeä osa naisen arkityötä. Villasta ja pellavasta kehrättiin lankaa talon tekstiilejä ja vaatteita varten.
Virtuaalimuseossa voi myös tutustua Einar Öhmanniin, joka oli Snappertunan talomuseon perustaja ja johtava hahmo. Virtuaalikävijä voi myös kulkea ”Lemmenpolulla”, joka on noin 500 m pitkä kaunis metsäinen historiallinen polku museolta Raaseporin linnaan.
Tammisaaren virtuaalimuseo on Tammisaaren museon ja Kroma Productions Oy:n yhteistuotanto. Tuottajana Marikki Hakola, ohjaajana Liina Toiviainen ja graafinen lay out, käyttöliittymän suunnittelu ja toteutus Camilla Sirén, Studio Silaus. Sisällön tuotanto on Tammisaaren museon työryhmä: Vesa Kiljo, Nina Andersson, Peter Sjöstrand ja Dan Lindholm. Tammisaaren virtuaalimuseo -verkkosivuston valmistumista on tukenut Museovirasto.
Electronic Café
Designers: Miikka Kari and Jouni Lähteenaho Genre: Experimental, Virtual Set Design
Production Year: 1995
Master Format: Beta SP
Audio: Stereo
Synopsis & Credits
Electronic Café was a talk show on YLE TV1, which took place during the MuuMediaFestival, MMF’95. Designers Mikka Kari and Jouni Lähteenaho made a virtual set design for the talk show by using chroma key technicques, experimental image processing and ambient soundtrack. Production Marikki Hakola / Kroma Productions Ltd. 1995.
Europe of Tales
“Europe of Tales” is a web animation project for children consisting of several tales and legends from Europe.
The multimedia is available on eight languages (English, Swedish, French, Italy, Icelandic, Gaelic, Finnish, Bretagne). The main co-ordinator of the project is Gallen-Kallela Museum in Finland.
The multimedia Team: Flash animation, programming and interface design by Riku Makkonen and Mika Tyyskä. Producer Sanna-Kaisa Hakkarainen / Kroma Productions Ltd. 2002. The duration of interactive animations approx. 90 min.
Awards
The Honorable Mention at the Media and Message Event 2002.
The EUROPRIX Quality Seal 2002 in category ”Learning and e-Education” / “Excellence in New Media”, Austria, 2002
Holmin perhe – Familjen Holm
Production Year: 2007
Master Format: Flash Animation
Audio: Stereo
Language: Finnish / Swedish
Porvoon museo ja tuotantoyhtiö Kroma Productions Oy ja ovat yhteistyössä tuottaneet uuden museomultimedian “Holmin perhe – Familjen Holm”. Museomultimedia julkistettiin 14.6.2007 uuden Porvoossa sijaitsevan Holmin talomuseon avajaisten yhteydessä. Museomultimedia on yleisön nähtävissä Holmin talomuseossa museon aukioloaikoina.
Museomultimedia kuvaa porvoolaisen kauppiasperheen elämäntapaa 1700-luvun lopulla. Multimedian tarinan elämyksellisenä viitekehyksenä toimii kummitusjuttu ja lavastuksena talomuseon aito interiööri. Historiatietouden lisäksi katsojalle tarjotaan tietoa ajan elämänmenosta, tavoista ja mm. talossa olevista muotokuvista luettavista yksityiskohdista.
Multimedian käsikirjoituksesta ja ohjauksesta vastaa Liina Toiviainen, sisällön asiantuntijana ovat toimineet Merja Herranen, Hannele Tenhovuori ja Juha Jämbeck Porvoon museosta, multimediasuunnittelusta ja visuaalisesta suunnittelusta vastaa Camilla Sirén ja äänisuunnittelusta Epa Tamminen. Multimedian kummituksen roolissa nähdään Eeva Puromies. Animaatioiden äänirooleissa esiintyvät Gun Wasenius-Hietanen, Tove Hagman, Stefan Paavola, Wesley Koivumäki, Thomas Kråkström, Eeva Puromies, Sonja Kurri ja Lauri Rissanen.
Multimedian musiikkina kuullaan pianisti Tuija Hakkilan esittämänä 1700-luvulla Porvoossakin vaikuttaneen säveltäjän Fredrik Lithanderin muunnelma Haydnin teemasta A-duuri.
Projektin vastaava tuottaja on Marikki Hakola ja tuotantoyhtiö on Kroma Productions Oy Porvoosta. Museomultimedian valmistamista ovat tukeneet Museovirasto, Säästöpankkisäätiö Porvoo ja Porvoon kaupunki.
Figure
Media Artist: Marikki Hakola
Genre: Installation, Video Art, Experimental
Duration: Loop
Production Year: 2000
Master Format: 2 x Beta SP PAL 4:3, Thermal Camera, Video Equipment
Audio: No
Language: No language
Distributor: Kroma Productions Ltd.
“FIGURE” is an interactive installation by media artist Marikki Hakola. Spectators are invited to take part in the formation process of the cinematic meaning of the work. The interaction is based on the conversation between the moving body of the spectator and cinematic elements. Spectators are photographed with the thermal camera, which registers both the warmth and movement of the body.
The image produced by the thermal camera is combined together with varying cinematic sequences by means of real-time video trick. The result is projected on the white surface of the exhibition space. The spectator experiences his/her own image as part of the visual themes and virtual space of Figure.
The Installation is part of the research project by media artist Marikki Hakola aiming at the doctoral dissertation at the Aalto University, Helsinki. The work is in the courtesy of the Finland State Art Collection.
Credits
Media Artist: Marikki Hakola
Editing: Marikki Hakola, Raimo Uunila
Technical Installation: Epa Tamminen, Raimo Uunila
Frontier – 52 km Kuhmosta mehtään
The Finnish part of the six documentary film series Girls around the World
52 km Kuhmosta mehtään (orig. title) Director: Kaija Juurikkala
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 30 min. / 45 min.
Production Year: 1999
Master Format: DigiBeta
Audio: Stereo
Distributor: Kroma Productions Ltd.
Synopsis “Frontier” is a film about Tarja, a girl from an isolated region in the Eastern Finland, near Russian border. The location chosen for the theme’s enactment, has Finland’s highest rate of unemployment. A local study has shown that at the root of the girls’ value systems is an inherent drive to escape their hometown. No one can imagine staying and not even the mothers hope that their daughters will remain. Film takes us into Tarja’s life in a small farm in the long dark Nordic winter. In the summer she will leave home for the first time. This journey serves as a rite of passage for the youth. When she returns to her daily routine, she inevitably sees it in a new light. Original language: Finnish.
Credits Script nd Direction: Kaija Juurikkala
Original idea: Outi Rousu
Camera: Marita Hällfors
Editing: Raimo Uunila, Kaija Juurikkala
Sound Recording: Laura Kuivalainen
Sound Design: Pekka Karjalainen / Kikeono ® Film Sound
Producers: Outi Rousu, Brenda Parkerson
Co-production: Trafik Film (Germany), Karaba Productions (France)
In association with: ZDF/3sat, YLE TV1, Euroarts Entertainment, AVEK
Girls around the World “Daughters of War” is one of the six part documentary series GIRLS AROUND THE WORLD. It is a collection of extraordinary documentaries on seventeen-year-old girls across the globe. Each focuses on one girl – her hopes and dreams,world and worldview. Directed by local women filmmakers in Peru, Pakistan, Benin, China, Germany and Finland, a mosaic emerges that not only depicts the great diversity in the lives of these girls, but also embodies the perspectives of an international roster of contemporary female film makers. Production: Trafik Film (Germany), Kroma Productions (Finland), Karaba Productions (France) In association with: ZDF/3sat, YLE TV1, Euroarts Entertainment, AVEK.
Frontiers
Script: Jarmo Vellonen, Marikki Hakola, Epa Tamminen
Sculpture: Jarmo Vellonen
Camera and Editing: Marikki Hakola
Soundtrack, lights: Epa Tamminen
Woodwinds: Jone Takamäki
Supportion: Finnish Cultural Foundation, The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Arts AVEK
Production: Kroma Productions Ltd 2014
Duration: Loop 15 min.
Premiere: 4.10.2014 at the Suomesta Gallery, Berlin
Master Format: 16:9 HD ProRes 422
Audio: Stereo
Distributor: Kroma Productions Ltd.
The media art installation ‘Frontiers’ consists of video projection, soundtrack and metal reliefs set upon note stands. The reliefs are based on the artwork ‘Vision’ by sculptor Jarmo Vellonen. The video projection by media artist Marikki Hakola and the soundtrack by sound designer Epa Tamminen launch a dialogue with reliefs, contemplating the perception and its interpretation.
The audiovisual elements come forth, change and hide in the continuum of lights, shadows and tones of the video projection. Are the visual references of the reliefs signs of a life lived, pieces of a language long since disappeared, or the remains of structures mangled by war? ‘Frontiers’ invites the spectator to form one’s own personal interpretation.
NIGHTGIRLby Yingli Ma, The Peoples Republic of China
Genre: Documentary, TV series
Duration: 6 x 30 min. / 6 x 45 min.
Production Year: 1998 – 2001
Master Format: DigiBeta
Audio: Stereo
Distributor in Scandinavia: Kroma Productions Ltd.
GIRLS AROUND THE WORLD is a collection of extraordinary documentaries on seventeen-year-old girls across the globe. Each focuses on one girl – her hopes and dreams,world and worldview. Directed by local women filmmakers in Peru, Pakistan, Benin, China, Germany and Finland, a mosaic emerges that not only depicts the great diversity in the lives of these girls, but also embodies the perspectives of an international roster of contemporary female film makers. Production: Trafik Film (Germany), Kroma Productions (Finland), Karaba Productions (France) In association with: ZDF/3sat, YLE TV1, Euroarts Entertainment, AVEK.
NIGHTGIRLby Yingli Ma, The Peoples Republic of China
Genre: Documentary, TV series
Duration: 6 x 30 min. / 6 x 45 min.
Production Year: 1998 – 2001
Master Format: DigiBeta
Audio: Stereo
Distributor in Scandinavia: Kroma Productions Ltd.
GIRLS AROUND THE WORLD is a collection of extraordinary documentaries on seventeen-year-old girls across the globe. Each focuses on one girl – her hopes and dreams,world and worldview. Directed by local women filmmakers in Peru, Pakistan, Benin, China, Germany and Finland, a mosaic emerges that not only depicts the great diversity in the lives of these girls, but also embodies the perspectives of an international roster of contemporary female film makers. Production: Trafik Film (Germany), Kroma Productions (Finland), Karaba Productions (France) In association with: ZDF/3sat, YLE TV1, Euroarts Entertainment, AVEK.
Gyrus
Director: Marikki Hakola Genre: Video Art, Experimental
Duration: 14 min. 30 sec.
Production Year: 1987-1989
Master Format: PRO RES HQ, PAL 4:3
Audio: Stereo
Language: Finnish (English Subtitles)
Distributor: Kroma Productions Ltd.
Synopsis Gyrus is a dystopia, which tells about the birth and growth of the dictator in a totalitarian information society. In the world of the video work Gyrus, leaders are just the political marionettes of the global economic power eminences, such as oil industry. The power of the dictator grows via the political declaration even to the religious rapture. The fragmentation of the speech underlines the insignificance of the message. Words transform into the nothingness.
Gyrus is one of the three video works trilogy based on a large audiovisual Performance Piipää. The trilogy includes Telephone (1990), Cricket (1988) and Gyrus (1989). The trilogy is in the courtesy of the Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma, Helsinki. Gyrus is also part of the Piipää Remix, a digital remastering of the video materials originally from the Piipää performance 1987.
The 1st Prize for Gyrus at the Kuopio Video Festival 1989
Credits
Direction, Editing: Marikki Hakola
Music: Kaija Saariaho & Jean-Baptiste Barriére
Text: Jouni Tommola
Performers: Tomi Salmela, Ari Tenhula, Sanna Kekäläinen, Kirsi Monni and Tiina Helisten.
Production: Marikki Hakola / Kaligari Oy 1987-1989
Digital Re-Production: Kroma Productions Ltd 2011
The German part of the six documentary film series Girls around the World
Director: Pascale Schmidt
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 30 min. / 45 min.
Production Year: 1998
Master Format: DigiBeta
Audio: Stereo
Distributor in Scandinavia: Kroma Productions Ltd.
Synopsis Ramona lives in Munich, Germany. She is 17, the same age her mother was when Ramona was born. Her mother wants Ramona to have all the freedoms that she didn´t have when she was 17. She is allowed to stay out as long as she wants, sleep at a boyfriend´s, and do all those things you can´t do if you marry and have children too young. But Ramona takes her freedom when and how she wants, and not as her mother would like her to. She defies the youth of the 1990´s. The latest trends pass her by. Techno, designer drugs and “DJ Bobo” leave her cold. Ramona is decidedly different from other girls her age. A student at an all girl Catholicschool, Ramona has chosen to follow a religious path. With self-confidence and courage, Ramona searches for a way to live her life between the anachronistic traditions of the Catholic Church and the one-dimensional demands which society today puts on youths. With stamina, she resists the pressure of her vivacious mother to lead a more “youthful” life.
Credits Script and direction: Pascale Schmidt
Camera: Sophie Maintigneux
Editing: B.J. Prassino, Uwe Gebert
Supervising Editor: Bettina Böhler
Sound: Annegret Fricke
Sound Mix: Toine Maertens, Martin Hertel
Producer: Brenda Parkerson
Co-producers: Outi Rousu, Bernd Hellthaler
Commissioning Editors: Inge Classen, Eila Werning
Co-production Kroma Productions Ltd.(Finland), EuroArts Entertainment
In association with: ZDF/3sat, YLE TV1, AVEK, Medien – und Filmg esellschaft Baden-Württemberg, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, E.A.V.E.
Production: Trafik Film 1998
Girls around the World “Don’t ask Why” is one of the six part documentary series GIRLS AROUND THE WORLD. It is a collection of extraordinary documentaries on seventeen-year-old girls across the globe. Each focuses on one girl – her hopes and dreams,world and worldview. Directed by local women filmmakers in Peru, Pakistan, Benin, China, Germany and Finland, a mosaic emerges that not only depicts the great diversity in the lives of these girls, but also embodies the perspectives of an international roster of contemporary female film makers. Production: Trafik Film (Germany), Kroma Productions (Finland), Karaba Productions (France) In association with: ZDF/3sat, YLE TV1, Euroarts Entertainment, AVEK.
Holy Men
Directors: Raimo Uunila and Keijo Kivioja Genre: Documentary, Performance, Experimental
Duration: 23 min.
Production Year: 1996
Master Format: Beta SP PAL
Audio: Stereo
Language: Finnish
Distributor: Grape Productions Ltd.
Synopsis
“Holy Men” is an experimental documentary about the Japanese network artist Shozo Shimamoto and Finnish performance artist Ilkka-Juhani Takalo-Eskola and their performance tour in Finland in 1993.
Both Shimamoto and Takalo-Eskola are internationally well known artists, whose careers includes multimedia works, performances, actions, manifestations, mail art, paintings, experimental releases and happenings all over the world. Takalo-Eskola has also been a head of the Academy of Fine arts in Helsinki, Finland. The content of the film include both unique material from the performances and also conversations and interaction between two strong characters and their audiences.
Credits Performers: Shozo Shimamoto and Ilkka-Juhani Takalo-Eskola
Script and Direction: Raimo Uunila and Keijo Kivioja
Producer: Raimo Uunila / Kroma Productions Ltd. 1996
Hut Fishing / Putkakalastus
Hut Fishing at the Eastern Gulf of Finland Putkakalastus Itäisellä Suomenlahdella
Production Year: 2008
Duration: 5 min.
Master Format: Flash multimedia
Languages: Finnish, English, Russian
Synopsis
Hut fishing at the Eastern Gulf of Finland is a multimedia production for the Kotka Maritime Museum Vellamo. A winter net fishing at the Eastern Gulf of Finland was a key source of income for many fishermen before the World War II. Thousands of members of the fishing community, men and women, lived throughout the winter on the ice and slept in the fishing huts drawn by horses. The multimedia describes the life and working habits of this fishing community.
Credits
The multimedia Hut fishing at the Eastern Gulf of Finland is based on the documentary “Hotel Belveder” (1987) directed by Antti Peippo, script by Antti Hytti and Antti Peippo and photography by Tahvo Hirvonen. The multimedia reproduction is produced for the Kotka Maritime Museum Vellamo by Kroma Productions Ltd. Script and direction Marikki Hakola, audio design Epa Tamminen, multimedia design Camilla Sirén. Producer Marikki Hakola.
Inner Steps
OMAT ASKELEET (orig.title)
Director: Kiti Luostarinen
Genre: Dance Video, Short Fiction, Video Art
Duration: 16 min.
Production Year: 1998
Master Format: Beta SP PAL
Audio: Stereo
Synopsis
A picture – and a woman in the picture is black and white. The picture is simple and carefully considered. And with intended strokes it forms a woman’s life, or some indications of life. The woman is dressed in a black. She dances solo dance in empty space. Actually, there is no space. Only emptiness, which the female body cuts. Space is converting. It can be black, gray or white. At the central point, there’s a woman and her movement. She dances calmly and deliberately, measuring her movements and gestures – and memories that dancing brings into her mind. She is no longer a young ballerina.
The woman is dancing full of energy and joy of dance. At the same time memories and nostalgia of past dances are curiously mixing with her dance. Occasionally, the woman looks at her own dance. Her other half is watching and reminiscing while the other half continues to dance. Occasionally, she turns into a negative picture. But all the same, she fills the picture, and form new pictures, from where the viewer can discern her story – or his/her own story.
Dance with nine cycles: gaze directions, transformation, the body remembers, forever a dancer, splitting up, serenity, new beginnings, intermezzo, balance.
Credits Director: Kiti Luostarinen
Script: Kiti Luostarinen, Ulla Koivisto, Milla Moilanen
Choreography: Ulla Koivisto
Assisting Director: Milla Moilanen
Dancer / Actress: Tarja Ranta
Music & Sound Design: Päivi Takala
Camera: Raimo Uunila, Riku Makkonen
Light Design: Jouni Lähteenaho
Editing: Raimo Uunila
Graphics: Milla Moilanen
Assistant: Tero Taxell
Musicians: Antti Hytti, Karri Koivukoski, Tom Nekljudow, Pekka Nylund, Jouni Takamäki
Audio Recording and Mix: Antti Hytti
Costumes: Marja Uusitalo
Production Secretary: Suvi Soitinaho
Producer: Outi Rousu
Production: Kroma Productiond Ltd. 1998
The Insult: Underhygiene
Directors: Mikko Pitkänen, Heikki Paulaharju
Genre: Music Clip
Duration: 3 min.
Production Year: 1995
Master Format: Beta SP PAL
Audio: Stereo
Synopsis “Underhygiene” is a study of man in interaction with information controlled by machines… What are the results when human nervous system is subordinated to impulses of sound and sight generated by information intelligence system with far superior capabilities to a mind of a man… And what happens when information addicted brain is cut off from it´s source and the flow of pictures and noise is stopped… irreversably!
Credits Music written and performed by The Insult that Made a Man Out of Mac
Script, Direction, Editing, Camera: Mikko Pitkänen, Heikki Paulaharju On-line editing supervisor: Raimo Uunila Graphics and Animation: Aki Kivelä Japanese Translations: Tero Salomaa Producer: Marikki Hakola Production: Kroma Productions Ltd 1995
The 2nd prize in Oulu music video competition 1995.
Music Released by SPINEFARM RECORDS, c & p SPIN-FARM 1994
Kehä – The Circle
Director: Pekka Savolainen Genre: Documentary
Duration: 29 min.
Production Year: 1996
Master Format: Beta SP
Audio: Stereo
Language: Finnish
Synopsis The video essay ”Kehä” introduces three very different works of art: ”DAD@” by Andy Best and Merja Puustinen, which is provoking internet visitors to start a conversation, ”Digital Multa” – an interactive dance work by Tiina Jalkanen, Juhani Räisänen and Leena Rouhiainen and ”Daisy´s Amazing Discoveries” – a non-linear soap opera in the internet by Mika Tuomola & co.
Credits Script, Direction: Pekka Savolainen
Camera, Editing: Raimo Uunila
Graphics: Milla Moilanen
Lights: Kätsä Lähteenaho
Sound Design: Miikka Kari
Producer: Outi Rousu
Production: Kroma Productions Ltd. 1996
Kiko – Traveller is my name
KIKO – MATKAMIES ON NIMENI (orig. title) Director: Minna Tarkka Genre: Documentary Duration: 52 min. Production Year: 1998 Master Format: Beta SP PAL Audio: Stereo Language: Finnish and English audio versions Distributor: Kroma Productions Ltd.
Synopsis The drama documentary “KIKO – traveller is my name” is an audiovisual essay on the cultural differences of East and West, on travelling and the aesthetics of time and space. The chronological frame is provided by the Japanese haiku poet Basho’s travel sketch Records of a Travel-worn Satchel. KIKO is a dramatized document with two characters: the Reflector and the Traveller. They symbolize two opposing modes of thinking and two different ways of perception and representation (the Mirror and the Path). The Traveller is a Western male: moving in the landscape, framing the scenes, he also represents Basho’s viewpoint.The Reflector is a female Butoh dancer, who creates a minimal choreography for a round mirror. The voice-over dialogue of a male and a female voice adds scope to the silent characters. The documentary records the path from Edo (Tokyo) to the beach of Suma by the Inland Sea, including visits at the Shinto Shrine of Ise and Koyasan, the Buddhist holy mountain. The emotional highlights of the journey are the visit at Ueno (Basho’s place of birth) and the famous cherry blossom festival of Yoshino.
Credits Script and Direction: Minna Tarkka Camera and Editing: Raimo Uunila Music: Shoin Kanki Sound Design: Epa Tamminen Actors: Martti Suosalo and Akeno Producers: Marikki Hakola and Outi Rousu Production: KROMA Productions Ltd. 1998
The Last Waltz
Director: Eeva Rista Genre: Animation
Duration: 3 min.
Production Year: 1999
Master Format: Beta SP PAL
Audio: Stereo
Language: No language
Distributors: Kroma Productions Ltd.
Synopsis
“The Last Waltz” is an animation on unemployment, life as a theatre and work as a stage where the life is played. The contradictoral meanings between the stage and the auditorium are the symbols presenting the society and it’s duality. During the early 70s´ the author Eeva Rista photographed black&white stills in various working locations around Finland. In those days the per cent of the official unempolyment was only 2%.
Credits
Script, direction and B&W Photography: Eeva Rista
Animation: Milla Moilanen
Editing: Raimo Uunila
Color stills: Esa Kyyrö, Matti Huuhka
Typography: Milja Ahola
Music: Perttu Hietanen, Martin Andersson
Sound design: Epa Tamminen
Co-production YLE TV1 Eila Werning
Production: Marikki Hakola / KROMA Productions Ltd. 1996
L’Enfant et les sortilèges
THE BEWITCHED CHILD (English title)
L’ENFANT ET LES SORTILÈGES (Orig. French title)
LUMOTTU LAPSI (Orig. Finnish title)
Director: Marikki Hakola Genre: Dance and Music Film Duration: 47 min. Production Year: 2004 Master Format: Digital Beta PAL 16:9 Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1. and Stereo Language: French (English and Finnish subtitles) Distributor: Kroma Productions Ltd.
THE BEWITCHED CHILD is a fantasy film for the whole family. The story follows how a small child faces the strange consequences of his thoughtless and mean deeds. The dance and music film is based on the miniature opera by Maurice Ravel. The set design is produced by using new virtual technology.
Credits
Script and Directing: Marikki Hakola Original Music: Maurice Ravel Poem: Colette Virtual Set Design: Katriina Ilmaranta Conductor: Armin Jordan Dance and Choreography: Mikael Kivimäki, Alpo Aaltokoski, Nina Hyvärinen, Aki Suzuki, Jyrki Karttunen, Sampo Kivelä, Anne Koutonen, Miguel Verdecia, Soila Grenot, Teemu Korjuslommi, Step Up Kids Video Photography: Raimo Uunila Editing: Marikki Hakola Audio Design: Epa Tamminen Production Support: AVEK – Promotion Center for Audiovisual Culture in Finland In Association with: YLE TV1 Co-Production and YLE Teema Co-Producer: University of Art and Design Helsinki, Media Centre Lume, School of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design Producer in Charge: Marikki Hakola Production Company: KROMA Productions Ltd. 2004
Awards Rockie Awards NHK President’s Prize at the BANFF World Television Festival, Canada, 2005 State Quality Award, Ministry of Education, Finland 2005
Der Lindenbaum
Genre: a Short Music Film Duration: 5 min. 27 sec. Production Year: 2013 Master Format: ProRes 422 HQ Audio: Stereo Language: German (English subtitles)
Credits: Cmposer: FRANZ SCHUBERT Lyrics: WILHELM MÜLLER Contralto: QIULIN ZHANG Piano: PAMI KARVONEN Direction: MARIKKI HAKOLA Audio: EPA TAMMINEN Camera: RAIMO UUNILA Producer: MARIKKI HAKOLA Production: KROMA PRODUCTIONS LTD. 2013
Linnajoen kaupunki
Staden vid Borg-ån – Linnajoen kaupunki
(The City next to the River, The Medieval Life in Finland)
Production Year: 2002 – 2006
Genre: Multimedia
Master Format: Flash Animation www.linnajoenkaupunki.fi
Synopsis LINNAJOENKAUPUNKI.FI is a web site about the Medieval life Finland and the town of Porvoo. The web site is based on the wide multimedia produced in 2002 introducing the 16th Century in Porvoo region. The storytelling has been realized by texts, pictures, sound and music. The web site is available in Finnish and Swedish language versions. The web site is based on the offline multimedia produced for the Porvoo Museum 2002.
Credits Contents: Merja Herranen / The Museum of Porvoo
Editor, Multimedia Director: Liina Toiviainen
Graphic Layout and Interface Design: Mika Tyyskä
Graphic Design Assistant: Tarja Heikkilä
Technical Design: Riku Makkonen
Animation: Sony Kåhre
Multimedia Layout: Camilla Sirén
Multimedia Assistants: Sami Kousa, Miikkali Korkolainen, Vesa Eloranta
Translation: Nina Kihlman
Voices: Stefan Paavola, Tove Hagman, Gun Wasenius-Hietanen, Wesley Koivumäki
Sound Design: Pekka Suominen, Marko Kataja
Producer: Sanna-Kaisa Hakkarainen
Executive Producer: Marikki Hakola
Commissioner / Co-Producer: The Museum of Porvoo
Production Company: Kroma Productions Ltd. 2006
Full Credits HERE
Luonnotar
Director: Marikki Hakola Duration: 10 min. Production Year: 2010 Genre: Music & Dance Film, Animation Master Format: PRO RES HQ / DPX Screening Formats DCP JPG 2000 DigiBeta PAL 16:9, DVD, BLURAY Audio: 5.1 Dolby Digital / Stereo Language: Finnish Subtitles: Finnish, English, French, Swedish
Synopsis Luonnotar is a music film based on the symphonic poem composed by Jean Sibelius for soprano and symphony orchestra. The music composition is an interpretation of the first song of Kalevala, a myth about the birth of the world. The story of the film conveys in a parallel manner two different creation stories: the Kalevalan mythology about the birth of the world is compared with naturalistic ideas about the birth of Earth and life. The animated set paints a spectrum of fierce natural powers, a convulsing scene where the mythical figures of the story travel, telling the story sung for thousands of years to new generations.
Credits Script, Direction, Editing MARIKKI HAKOLA Music JEAN SIBELIUS Soprano RIIKKA HAKOLA Dance, Choreography NINA HYVÄRINEN Conductor LEIF SEGERSTAM Orchestra SLOVAK RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Virtual Set Design, Scenography and Animation KATRIINA ILMARANTA Sound Design EPA TAMMINEN Camera RAIMO UUNILA Production KROMA PRODUCTIONS Ltd. 2010
Director: Marikki Hakola Genre: Documentary, Performance, Experimental
Duration: 52 min.
Production Year: 1996
Master Format: Beta SP PAL
Audio: Stereo
Language: Finnish
Distributor: Kroma Productions Ltd.
Synopsis
“MEDIASCAPE – a journey to a media landscape” is a television documentary about the arts and media project “Helsinki Mediascape”. A young generation of artists came up with ideas that explored media culture from the viewpoint of electronic arts. “MEDIASCAPE” -project contains two parts: The first part was called “Helsinki Mediascape”, which was a 90 minutes live tv-broadcast for the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE, TV1 on August 24th 1994.
“Helsinki Mediascape” was an exeptional education project. 70 art students were guided by forty arts and media experts. Six very different art works, performances with electronic settings emerged which were dramatized into one 90 minutes live broadcast shown for the live and tv-audience on the stage of STOA, the cultural house in Helsinki. “Mediascape” was a part of the ISEA´94, the 5th International Symposium on Electronic Art. The enthusiastic and creative project was a success also internationally.
The second part of the project outlines student´s thoughts, concepts and visions of the human being in a media society. It describes experiments, filming, compiling, rehearsals and new methods and electronic tools of making art.
Credits
Direction: Marikki Hakola
Camera: Timo Anttila, Harri Laakso, Pekka Lehtinen, Aku Louhimies, Outi Rousu
Editing: Marikki Hakola, Raimo Uunila
Graphics: Escape-group, Kätsä Lähteenaho
Sound Design: Epa Tamminen, Marko Kataja
Producers: Marikki Hakola and Outi Rousu
Production: KROMA Productions Ltd. 1996
Milena – Distanz
Director: Marikki Hakola
Genre: Video Art, Short Fiction, Installation Art
Duration: 24 min.
Production Year of the Installation: 1992
Production Year of the Video Work: 1994
Master Formats: Beta SP PAL / DigiBeta
Audio: Stereo
Language: No language
Distributors: Kroma Productions Ltd., AV-arkki
Synopsis
The video work Milena – Distanz is an experimental melodrama.The story is about the relationship between two archetypal characters, Milena and Franz, their striving for communication and their drifting apart. The audiovisual narrative expands themes to the questions of time, distance, memory and existence. The story is fictional and loosely based on a letter Franz Kafka has sent to his beloved Milena Jesenská. Milena Jesenská’s letters to Kafka have never been found, but some lines of Kafka’s letter can be heard in the music piece.
The video work is based on Kaija Saariaho´s radiophonic composition “Stilleben”. There are two versions of the work: The single channel video work. The single tape installation for 16 monitors video wall programming. The installation is exhibited at the Atheneum Museum Helsinki, Aalto Museum Jyväskylä and Gulbenkian Museum Lissabon.
Credits
Script, Direction, Editing: Marikki Hakola
Camera, Editing: Raimo Uunila
Lights: Epa Tamminen
Music: Kaija Saariaho
Set Design, Costumes, Make-Up, Graphics: Milla Moilanen
Actors: Minna Tarkka, Jussi Rinne
Video Wall Programmers: Mats Hulden, Marikki Hakola
Production: Marikki Hakola / Kaligari Oy 1992-1994
Moloch – Earthly Gestures
DETAILS
Media Artist: Marikki Hakola Genre: Media Art Installation, Web Art Duration: Interactive Loop Production Year: 2010 Master Format: Flash Animation Audio: Stereo Distributors: Kroma Productions Ltd. and AV-arkki
Web Site: www.moloch.fi
CREDITS
Concept, Direction MARIKKI HAKOLA Music and Woodwinds HEPA HALME Sound Design and Recording EPA TAMMINEN Animation and Multimedia Design MIKA TYYSKÄ Production KROMA Productions Ltd. 2010
The video art work Continuum forms part of Marikki Hakola’s doctoral degree (DA) at Aalto University.
Moloch Cataloque
MOLOCH CATALOGUE
Moloch Catalogue is available both in PDF as well as a printed version.
Please contact kroma@kroma.fi for the printed version.
Motorgan
A live concerto for the electric guitar, organ, percussion, alphorn, strings, video art and the Harley Davidson motorbike MOTORGAN. The premiere of the concerto took place in the 41. International Organ Festival on 8th August 2013 at the Sibelius Hall in Lahti, Finland.
The music composition of the concerto was by Marzi Nyman. Musicians were among others Marzi Nyman, electric guitar, Kalevi Kiviniemi, organ, Carlo Torlontano, alphorn, Electra String Quartet, strings, Markku Krohn, percussion.
The motorcycle Motorgan was driven and played by Riku Routo, the founder of the Finnish Motorcycle Museum, Lahti. The motorcycle was built by Mika Nieminen at the chopper studio Mr Moore, Lempäälä. Light design by Teemu Nurmelin. The concerto was produced by Erkki Krohn, the director of the Organ Festival.
The concerto was visualized by using video projections and light design. Video direction by Marikki Hakola, camera and editing by Raimo Uunila. Video production by Kroma Productions Ltd 2013.
The Museum of Popular Music – Populaarimusiikin museo
POPULAARIMUSIIKIN VUOSIKYMMENET
“Populaarimusiikin vuosikymmenet” (Decades of the Popular Music) is an inderface design project for the Museum of Popular Music in Finland. The audience is invited to find information and articles of different decades by using the “Radio-like” menu of the interface. Multimedia Design by Mika Tyyskä. Production coordinator Liina Toiviainen. Producer Marikki Hakola / Kroma Productions Ltd 2008.
POMUS VIRTUAL STUDIO
“Pomus Virtual Studio” is an inderface design project for the Museum of Popular Music in Finland. The audience is invited touse the virtual music mixer to mix their own versions of the popular music piece performed by Marion. Multimedia Design by Mika Tyyskä. Production coordinator Liina Toiviainen. Producer Marikki Hakola / Kroma Productions Ltd 2008.
The Museum Portal of Western Uusimaa is a guide, where you will find all museums located within the principality of Western Uusimaa Provincial Museum. Every museum is described in words and pictures, with an info section containing details of opening hours, entrance fees, exhibitions, etc. These are updated regularly. The map on the site will help you locate the museums.
Under Municipalities, you will find the museums arranged by municipality and also displayed on the adjacent map. Under Routes, there are suggestions for museum routes you can follow should you want to visit several museums with complementing themes. Current exhibitions and events taking place in the museums can be found under Events.
The aim of these pages is for the region’s museums to gain exposure and to increase the amount of information available to visitors, thereby encouraging greater access. This website was realised through funding awarded by the National Board of Antiquities.
Credits
Commissioned by: The Provincial Museum of Western Uusimaa
Production funding: National Board of Antiquities
Produced by: Marikki Hakola, Kroma Productions Oy
Contents by: Peter Sjöstrand, Provincial Museum of Western Uusimaa
Multimedia Director: Liina Toiviainen
Photographer: Eva Tordera Nuño
Multimedia Services: Produs Oy
Graphic and multimedia design and implementation: Mika Tyyskä, Elektrik Pyjamas
Financial administration: Jaana Hertell-Amokrane, Artedata Oy
English translation: Visit Southpoint Finland Ab
Musica Futura
Musica Futura Workshop – a documentary (52 min.) Musica Futura Concert – a stage relay (60 min.)
Master Format: DigiBeta
Audio: Stereo
Production Year: 2003
Distribution: Kroma Productions Ltd.
Synopsis
MUSICA FUTURA was an international Jazz festival in Porvoo in 11 – 13 June, 2003. Kroma produced two music programmes based on the festival events, a documentary about the international jazz music workshop and a concert relay. What has a musician in mind when music springs up? What´s the point of improvisation? How does a musician interact with another? MUSICA FUTURA – five different ways to express free jazz.
Musicians Tomas Szkalski, Poland (tenor saxophone)
Iro Haarla, Finland (piano and keyboard)
Anders Bergcrantz, Sweden (trumpet)
Juhani Aaltonen, Finland (saxophone, flutes)
Pentti Lahti, Finland (saxophone, flutes)
Rasmus Korsström, Finland (tenor and soprano saxophone)
Uffe Krokfors, Finland (bass)
Brian Melvin, USA (drums)
Film Team Script, Dirction, Editing: Raimo Uunila
Music Producers: Antti Hytti, Uffe Krokfors
Sound Design: Epa Tamminen
Sound Recorder: Pasi Hornamo
Sound Mixing: Teemu Kortelainen
Light Design: Janne Koivulahti
Light Tecnician: Max Wikström
Camera: Pasi Hornamo, Keijo Kivioja, Arno Launos, Riku Makkonen
Executive Producer: Marikki Hakola
Production: Kroma Productions Ltd. 2003
Neonomads – Telematic Encounters
Genre: Music Clip
Duration: 3 min. 30 sec.
Production Year: 1996
Master Format: Beta SP PAL
Audio: Stereo
Synopsis Neonomads” creates a link between the mobile lifestyle and future communication technology by using music video, video art and contemporary dance. In the future wireless multimedia applications will be a natural part of people´s work and leisure. Technology will be more transparent, interfaces will react to user´s body movements and a personal network agent can be reached by whistling. The NEONOMADS music clip is a comissioned work produced for the Nokia Mobile Phones.
Credits Video Team: Marikki Hakola, Milla Moilanen, Raimo Uunila, Riku Makkonen
Choreography: Sami Saikkonen
Music: Tapani Rinne, Måns Strömberg, Miikka Kari
Producer: Sanna-Kaisa Hakkarainen
Production: Kroma Productions Ltd. 1996
Nightgirl
The Chinese part of the six documentary film series Girls around the World
Director: Yingli Ma
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 30 min. / 45 min.
Production Year: 2001
Master Format: DigiBeta
Audio: Stereo
Distributor in Scandinavia: Kroma Productions Ltd.
Synopsis “Nightgirl” presents the poignant story of Han Lin, a 17-year old girl prematurely made to enter into the workforce as a Go-Go dancer in order to help her family eek out a living in modern-day Peking. Born in the center of the metropolis, on the surface she is an ordinary girl from a traditional Chinese family. On closer inspection Han Lin is mature beyond her years and faces an enormous burden of responsability unfamiliar to most young women in the West. Original language Chinese.
Credits Script and direction: Yingli Ma
Camera: Zeng Jan
Editing: Calle Overweg
Sound: Zheng Jiaqing
Research: Liu Peng
Producers: Pascale Schmidt, Brenda Parkerson, Marikki Hakola
Co – production: Kroma Productions Ltd. (Finland), Karaba Productions (France)
In association with: ZDF/3sat, YLE TV1, Euroarts Entertainment, AVEK
Production: Trafik Film 2001
Girls around the World “Nightgirl” is one of the six part documentary series GIRLS AROUND THE WORLD. It is a collection of extraordinary documentaries on seventeen-year-old girls across the globe. Each focuses on one girl – her hopes and dreams,world and worldview. Directed by local women filmmakers in Peru, Pakistan, Benin, China, Germany and Finland, a mosaic emerges that not only depicts the great diversity in the lives of these girls, but also embodies the perspectives of an international roster of contemporary female film makers. Production: Trafik Film (Germany), Kroma Productions (Finland), Karaba Productions (France) In association with: ZDF/3sat, YLE TV1, Euroarts Entertainment, AVEK.
Northern Images
RAJAMAAN KUVIA (Orig. title)
Director: Markku Flink Genre: Documentary
Duration: 51 min.
Production Year: 2000
Master Format: Beta SP PAL
Audio: Stereo
Language: Finnish
Distributor: Kroma Productions Ltd.
Synopsis
A documentary dealing with creators of finnish movie and internet works surrounded by changes in audiovisual culture. The work includes voices of directors Pirjo Honkasalo, Olli Saarela and Ilppo Pohjola, an animation director Milla Moilanen and media artists Merja Puustinen and Andy Best. Directors and artists throw some light on their thoughts and views among samples of their works .
Credits Script and direction: Markku Flink
Camera and Editing: Raimo Uunila, Petri Heikkilä / Kuvakieli Oy
Sound Recording: Markku Flink, Pasi Hornamo
Music: Antti Hytti
Sound Design: Jokke Heikkilä
Co-producer YLE TV 1 / Eila Werning
Producers: Marikki Hakola and Outi Rousu
Production: KROMA Productions Ltd. 2000
OD Overdose – Otto Donner Concert Relay
Director: Patrick Oras
Duration: 66 min.
Production Year: 2007
Genre: Jazz Concert Relay
Master Format: PRO RES HQ / DPX
Audio: Stereo
Language: Finnish / English
Distributor:
Kroma Productions Ltd.
Synopsis
OD OVERDOSE is a concert relay celebrating the 50-year artistic career of a composer, musician Otto Donner. OD OVERDOSE was recorded in Grand, Porvoo, at the Musica Futura 2007 festival. Directing and editing by Patrick Oras. Music producers are Antti Hytti and Uffe Krokfors / Musica Futura Association. Music mix is by Epa Tamminen. Producer Marikki Hakola / Kroma Productions Ltd.
The OD OVERDOSE concert includes written material and large, improvised soloist parts. The concert includes five compositions by Otto Donner, which are ”No Change!”, ”4 A.M. Rub”, ”Green Envelope”, ”These are the days”, ”…and It Happened…” and one composition by Carla Bley ”Do Ya”. The fantastic orchestra is a real dream team of Jazz.
Music Credits
Conductor: Otto Donner
Saxophone, Flute: Juhani Aaltonen, Sonny Heinilä, Mikko Innanen, Pepa Päivinen
Trumpet: Jan Kohl, Martti Vesala, Mikko Pettinen, Tero Saarti, Mikko Karjalainen
Trombone: Jari Hongisto, Kasperi Sari Koski, Pekka Laukkanen
French Horn: Ilkka Puputti
Tuba: Petri Keskitalo
Piano: Seppo Kantonen, Riitta Paakki
Harp: Iro Haarla
Guitar: Jukka Orma
Bass: Uffe Krokfors, Tero Tuovinen
Percussion: Mika Kallio, Markus Ketola
Vocals: Jukka Gustavson, Johanna Iivanainen
OTTO – about the Music and Life of Otto Donner
OTTO – Otto Donnerin musiikista ja elämästä (orig. title)
Director: Marikki Hakola
Duration: 00:58:00
Production Year: 2009
Genre: Music Documentary
Master Format: PRO RES HQ / DPX
Audio: Stereo
Language: Finnish
“OTTO – about the Music and Life of Otto Donner” is a music documentary about the composer, musician Otto Donner and improvised nature of music. The state-of-the-art of the Finnish music life is observed through more than five decades including discussions and rich archive of materials. The documentary is featuring Otto Donner and his friends Juhani Aaltonen, Mauri Antero Numminen, Kaj Chydenius and Tapani Tamminen.
Script Marikki Hakola and Antti Hytti, director and editing Marikki Hakola, photography Tahvo Hirvonen, sound design Epa Tamminen. In cooperation with Musica Futura, YLE Teema and ESEK / LUSES AV Division. Production Kroma Productions Ltd. 2009.
O-Zone – Natural Layers
O-ZONE – luonnollisia kerrostumia (orig. title)
Director: Harri Larjosto Genre: Experimental, Short Fiction, Video Art
Productions Year: 1996
Duration: 27 min.
Master Format: Beta SP PAL
Audio: Stereo
Distributor: Kroma Productions Ltd.
O-zone is a fiction and an experimental video work. O-zone shakes to consider the human impact on the environment and the earth’s atmosphere, as well as looking for the possibility of human responsibility. O-zone sets images, sounds and meanings into a dialogue and takes the viewer on a journey to the equivocal and absurd biosphere of the human mind. The subjective intuitions are juxtaposed with the imagery of scientific climate research.
Credits
Script & Direction: Harri Larjosto
Performers Tiina Huczkowski, Hannu Kivioja
Sound & Music Epa Tamminen, Marko Kataja
Animation, Graphics: Milla Moilanen
Camera & Editing: Raimo Uunila
Producers: Marikki Hakola &
Production: Kroma Productions Ltd. 1996
The 1st Prize at the Prix du concours A.C.I.E.R.S. Estavar-Llivia Video Festivals 1997.
The Pacius web site www.pacius.fi is about the life and works of composer Fredrik Pacius. The web site was produced to celebrate the 200th birthday of Fredrik Pacius. The website has been commissioned by the committee for the Pacius Bicentennial 2009.
The Pacius Bicentennial 2009 committee
Eero Tarasti (University of Helsinki)
Ann-Mari Häggman (The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland)
Inkeri Pitkäranta (The National Library)
Pekka Vapaavuori (Arts Council of Finland)
Klaus Pylkkänen (YLE –Finnish Broadcasting Company)
Aarno Cronvall
Ilkka Oramo (Sibelius Academy)
Magnus Pettersson (The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland)
Credits Article (in Finnish and Swedish): Christian Holmqvist
English translation: Marika Kivinen
Director: Liina Toiviainen
Graphic design: Mika Tyyskä, Elektrik Pyjamas, Tomi Lindroos
Design of user interface: Mika Tyyskä, Elektrik Pyjamas
Editing of multimedia: Tomi Lindroos
Photographers: Mika Tyyskä, Elektrik Pyjamas, Liina Toiviainen
Administration: Jaana Hertell-Amokrane
Photographies from Archives: The National Library, Doria, National Board of Antiquities, Turku University Library, Espoo City Museum, Wikipedia Commons
Acknowledgements: Sten Björkman, Tryggve Gestrin, Seija Lappalainen, Jaakko Tuohiniemi, Petri Tuovinen
Producer: Marikki Hakola
Production: Kroma Productions Ltd.
Passage
Director: Milla Moilanen Genre: Animation
Duration: 11 min.
Production Year: 2001
Master Format: 35 mm film
Audio: Stereo
Language: No language
Distributors: Kroma Productions Ltd.
Synopsis
In the short film PASSAGE both the psychical and physical skills of the man and the stallion are fused into a perfect, aesthetic performance. Into a dance.
Credits
Script, animation, editing, direction: Milla Moilanen
Cinematography: Raimo Uunila
The Rider: Marko Björs
The Horse: Don Carlos
Music: Antti Hytti
Sound: Epa Tamminen
Co-producer: YLE TV1/ Eila Werning
Producer: Sanna-Kaisa Hakkarainen
Production Company: KROMA Productions Ltd. 2001
Piipää Remix
Director: Marikki Hakola
Genre: Video Art, Multimedia, Performance
Duration: 41 min.
Production Year: 1987 – 2011
Master Format: PRO RES HQ, PAL 4:3
Audio: Stereo
Language: Finnish (English subtitles)
Distributors: Kroma Productions (licencing), AV-arkki (galleries, museums, events, festivals)
The PIIPÄÄ REMIX – The Silicon Head Remix (2011, 41 min.) is a video work based on the video and audio recordings of the audiovisual performance PIIPÄÄ from a year 1987. The performance was directed by Marikki Hakola. Music was composed by Kaija Saariaho and Jean-Baptiste Barriére and texts by Jouni Tommola. The PIIPÄÄ was performed in Helsinki and Stockholm. Performers were Tomi Salmela, Riikka Hakola, Juha Haanperä, Sanna Kekäläinen, Kirsi Monni, Ari Tenhula and Tiina Helisten. The artistic design and realization was among others Veli Granö, Marja Kanervo, Kimmo Koskela, Ilkka Volanen, Jussi Liimatainen, Tarja Ervasti, Epa Tamminen, Jukka Mikkonen, Jari Haanperä, Matti Willberg and Taina Relander.
The PIIPÄÄ REMIX from a year 2011 is directed and edited by Marikki Hakola. Audio remastering is by Epa Tamminen. Image remastering by Talvi Digital and Post Control. The production is supported by ESEK/LUSES AV-division, The Art Council of Finland, AVEK and Espoo Museum of Modern Art EMMA. Produced by Marikki Hakola / Kroma Productions Ltd. 2011.
The Porvoo City Stories 1-4
Porvoon kaupunkitarinoita 1-4 (orig. title in Finnish)
Borgå stadens sägner 1-4 (Orig. title in Swedish)
Production Year: 2007
Genre: Multimedia
Audio Master Format: Audio Aiff stereo
Languages: Finnish / Swedish
Synopsis & Credits The Porvoo City Stories is a series of four history-themed miniature audio plays. The Porvoo City Museum experts have compiled data for the starting point of script writing. Audio plays are written and directed by Marikki Hakola. Sound designer Epa Tamminen, in voice roles Tove Hagman and Stefan Paavola. Audio plays have been carried out in Finnish and Swedish languages. Swedish translation is by Markus Sandberg. Production Kroma Productions Oy 2007.
Part 1. The Majesty Crime of the Customs Inspector Lönnroth During the Gustav’s War in the spring 1789 soldiers arrested heavily drunked customs inspector Johan Lönnroth, who gave an offensive statement about the King…
Part 2. Typhus Fever (Mätäkuume / Rötfeber)
The city of Porvoo was packed full with the military force during the Gustav’s War (1788-90). The dangerous Typhus Fever epidemic broke out in the city, and increased mortality dramatically…
Part 3. Porvoo Bourgeois Guard Story Porvoo Bourgeois Guard – the tradesmen of the city – wanted to organize a handsome welcome reception for the King Gustav III during his visit to Porvoo in 1775. The visit, however, had an embarrassing ending…
Part 4. Cantor Gottsmans Garden French philosopher Rousseau’s ideas about nature was studied even in Porvoo City. Noble citizens began to be build up gardens and gazebos…
Pre Kalevala
Directors: Riikka Poulsen and Raimo Uunila Genre: Documentary, Experimental
Duration: 27 min.
Production Year: 1997
Master Format: Beta SP PAL
Audio: Stereo
Language: Finnish
Distributor: Kroma Productions Ltd.
Synopsis Pre Kalevala is a drama documentary taking as its theme the search for the roots of “Finnishness”. The film takes one on the journey of ten different artists back into the time of memories, heroes and gods. The film acts as intermediary, transmitting the feelings and heightened personal experiences of the Pre Kalevala period to the viewer. By means of this film they transport the viewer to the heart of a fanciful, pre-historic landscape. The film opens against the works’ background of anecdote and submerges the viewer into the very roots of mythological Kalevala-esque times. The following artists appear in the film: Vertti Teräsvuori, Guy Hellström, Pekka Hiltunen, Eero Taskinen, Sirkka Könönen, Helena Lehtinen, Jari Kettunen, Niina Pasanen, Nina Jokinen, and Jani Uljas.
Credits Script, Direction, Camera, Editing: Riikka Poulsen and Raimo Uunila
Music: Antti Hytti and Jouni Takamäki
Sound Design: Epa Tamminen
Words: Heikki Vuento
Actor: Ilkka Heiskanen
Producer: Marikki Hakola
Production: Kroma Productions Ltd. 1997
The Rasmus: Playboys
Director: Mikko Pitkänen
Genre: Music Clip
Production Year: 1997
Duration: 3 min.
Master Format: Beta SP
Audio: Stereo
Synopsis PLAYBOYS is the second music video by the famous, internationally celebrated Finnish rock band,The Rasmus. The video was shooten in the Summer 1996 at the Magnusborg Studios, in Porvoo, Finland, and released in 1997.
Credits Script, Direction, Editing: Mikko Pitkänen
Camera: Heikki Paulaharju
Producer: Sanna-Kaisa Hakkarainen
Production: Kroma Productions Ltd. 1997
The Revenge of Technology
TEKNOLOGIA KOSTAA (Orig. title)
Director: Marko Pohjosmäki Genre: Experimental Documentary
Production Year: 1998
Master Formats: Beta SP PAL
Audio: Stereo
Language: Finnish
Distributor: Kroma Productions Ltd.
Synopsis
• Invent a car – an accident waiting to happen •
The producing intelligence always has its reverse side. “The Revenge of Technology ” is a document of the ambivalent character of technology. In technological systems we can find quite a few risk factors. Pauses in electric flow, accidents and traffic jams are parts of the technical modern culture.
Can we ever totally have a control over technology? This documentary takes a historic and social view over the subject. Resourcher of consumption, Mika Pantzar, commentator of cultural history, Hannu Salmi and investigator of science and technology, Karl-Erik Michelsen are introduced in the document. The pilot Matti Sorsa explaines the automatic steering, the resourcher of the Technical Resourcecenter of Finland considers the risks included in the safety devices of cars.
Credits Script: Marko Pohjosmäki, Herman Raivio
Camera: Arto Kaivanto
Editing: Marko Pohjosmäki
Sound design: Antti Hytti, Marko Pohjosmäki
Co producer: YLE TV1 / Eila Werning
Producer: Outi Rousu
Production: KROMA Productions Ltd.
Runeberg.net
The Life and Works of Finnish
National Poet J.L. Runeberg Production Year: 2004
Genre: Multimedia
Master Format: Flash Animation
Audio: Stereo
Languages: Finnish / Swedish
Synopsis & Credits RUNEBERG.NET is a web site about the life and works of Finnish national poet J.L. Runeberg. The site introduces thoroughly and in a fresh way the colourful life of Runeberg as a honoured national poet and a family father.
Articles: Gustav Djupsjöbacka, Pia Forssell, Teivas Oksala, Agneta Rahikainen, Liisa Suvikumpu
Editor and Introduction: Sari Hilska
Translators: Markus Sandberg, Pia Hansson, Christel Nyman, Juhani Weijola
Poetry Recitation: Dan Henriksson
Script and Design: Kroma Productions Ltd, Sari Hilska, Agneta Rahikainen
Multimedia Design: Riku Makkonen and Mika Tyyskä
Graphic Design: Mika Tyyskä
Compiling: Mika Tyyskä and Ilari Raja
Producer: Riku Makkonen
Production Company: Kroma Productions Ltd.
Commissioner: The National Committee of the 200 Years Anniversary of J.L.Runeberg