Learned By Heart
MARJUT RIMMINEN: LEARNED BY HEART
London Curzon Soho
Tuesday 13 March 2007, at 6pm
British artists’ moving-image project animate! and The Finnish Institute are proud to present the international premiere of a remarkable new autobiographical animation by multi-award-winning Finnish filmmaker Marjut Rimminen.
Learned By Heart (Marjut Rimminen, 2007)
MARJUT RIMMINEN: LEARNED BY HEART
LEARNED BY HEART (UK/Finland, 2007, 30 mins), commissioned as part of Finland’s 90th anniversary of independence celebrations, is a charged and deeply personal creative collaboration with composer and co-director Paivi Takala. The film’s five episodes explore the little-charted legacies of Finland’s post-war period, digging deep into the unspoken stories, misunderstandings and mysteries that a child in that period experienced.
Composed around hymns sung in school assembly, choral motifs dominate the soundtrack and recall memories of a time when they were an intimate element in everyday life. The visual narrative is created from archive materials and still photographs from old family albums. These images capture forgotten, even buried, emotional memories and through manipulation they release a raw and unencumbered energy.
Sister to the allusive, lyrical works of fellow Finnish artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila, LEARNED BY HEART steps unflinchingly into the charged territory of generational relations, historical amnesia and the secret agendas of the human heart, where a shared silence yields to final forgiveness.
Rimminen was an early pioneer of desktop digital animation, using equipment that in other hands (and hearts) might have been little more than ‘toys for the boys’.
Also showing will be her strikingly unsettling 1996 multi-Grand-Prix-winning work MANY HAPPY RETURNS (UK, 1996, 8 mins), plus her startling account of a brutalised life, SOME PROTECTION (UK, 1987, 9 mins). She will be in conversation with Gareth Evans (editor of Vertigo magazine) after the screening, when details of this year’s animate! television commissioning process will also be announced.
The animate! project is funded by Arts Council England and Channel 4, refreshing, extending and redefining animation.
at
Curzon Soho
99 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1D 5DY
Nearest Tube: Leicester Square / Piccadilly Circus
MAP OF AREA
Tickets: £5.50 / £4.50 concessions
Box Office: 0870 756 4620
www.curzoncinemas.com
www.animateonline.org
London Curzon Soho
Tuesday 13 March 2007, at 6pm
British artists’ moving-image project animate! and The Finnish Institute are proud to present the international premiere of a remarkable new autobiographical animation by multi-award-winning Finnish filmmaker Marjut Rimminen.
Learned By Heart (Marjut Rimminen, 2007)LEARNED BY HEART (UK/Finland, 2007, 30 mins), commissioned as part of Finland’s 90th anniversary of independence celebrations, is a charged and deeply personal creative collaboration with composer and co-director Paivi Takala. The film’s five episodes explore the little-charted legacies of Finland’s post-war period, digging deep into the unspoken stories, misunderstandings and mysteries that a child in that period experienced.
Composed around hymns sung in school assembly, choral motifs dominate the soundtrack and recall memories of a time when they were an intimate element in everyday life. The visual narrative is created from archive materials and still photographs from old family albums. These images capture forgotten, even buried, emotional memories and through manipulation they release a raw and unencumbered energy.
Sister to the allusive, lyrical works of fellow Finnish artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila, LEARNED BY HEART steps unflinchingly into the charged territory of generational relations, historical amnesia and the secret agendas of the human heart, where a shared silence yields to final forgiveness.
Rimminen was an early pioneer of desktop digital animation, using equipment that in other hands (and hearts) might have been little more than ‘toys for the boys’.
Also showing will be her strikingly unsettling 1996 multi-Grand-Prix-winning work MANY HAPPY RETURNS (UK, 1996, 8 mins), plus her startling account of a brutalised life, SOME PROTECTION (UK, 1987, 9 mins). She will be in conversation with Gareth Evans (editor of Vertigo magazine) after the screening, when details of this year’s animate! television commissioning process will also be announced.
The animate! project is funded by Arts Council England and Channel 4, refreshing, extending and redefining animation.
at
Curzon Soho
99 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1D 5DY
Nearest Tube: Leicester Square / Piccadilly Circus
MAP OF AREA
Tickets: £5.50 / £4.50 concessions
Box Office: 0870 756 4620
www.curzoncinemas.com
www.animateonline.org
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