FESTIVAL SCREENINGS:
2023
BE POLAR Film Festival, Warsaw
2022
- CulturaFest, Helsinki
- New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland, White Nights
2021
- FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter, Berlin
- Concorto Film Festival, Piacenza, Italy
- when the light hits just right - analogue film & photography festival, Vaasa, Finland
2020
- FIFEQ Festival International du Film Ethnographique du Quebec, Canada
2019
- Gijón International Film Festival, Spain
- Nordische Filmtage Lübeck, Germany
- 21e Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris
- Seoul International NewMedia Festival, Korea
- Rome Independent Prisma Awards, Italy
- Tampere Film Festival, Finland - National Competition
- Skábmagovat Indigenous Film Festival, Inari, Finland
2018
- Rex Fest, Amos Rex, Helsinki
- Curta Cinema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - International Competition
- Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden - International Competition
- Antimatter [media art], Victoria, BC Canada
- Vaasa Wildlife Festival, Finland
- Indigenous Film Festival, Pine Ridge, South Dakota, US
GOVADAS
experimental short film: 8 min 43 sec, 2018
Govadas explores the contradiction and harmony between humans and nature through Sámi poetry. The cyclical perception of time among the only indigenous people living in the European Union is presented in the work as unfolding forms and layers based on the archive material from the 1940's and the super 8 mm film footage from 2010’s. Govadas creates a kinetic meditation on time, memory, landscape and the ruptures between them.
THE SHORT FILM IS SUPPORTED BY
Tiina and Antti Herlin Foundation
Arts Promotion Centre Finland
AVEK - The Promotion Center for Audiovisual Culture
Finnish Film Foundation (Travel support)
DIRECTED & WRITTEN BY
Elina Oikari
SOUND DESIGN & MUSIC BY
Pekka Aikio
FILM EDITOR & CINEMATOGRAPHER
Elina Oikari
POEMS BY
Nils-Aslak Valkeapää
ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS BY
Ralph Salisbury, Lars Nordström, Harald Gaski
GRAPHIC DESIGN & POSTER BY
Barbara Siemaszko
COLORIST
Sarrah Wilkman, Grade One Oy