Up and About Again
Maarit Suomi-Väänänen Jalkeilla taas, FI, 2009, 10', SD video
Up an About Again is moved by motion, laid back in the outback. Dreamlike and surrealist images depict a saloon car driving, covered in a thick layer of snow and ice, through a summer landscape. The film can also be seen as symbolic coming-of-age story in which the protagonist is born in a narcissistic, destructive and barren stony wilderness. The car continues its journey to a ramshackle and abandoned service station where it fills itself up aggressively and jubilantly. Eventually the car makes it to an ethereal and deep-green forest of moss. In the forest the car loses its wheel, which remains spinning on the road. It does not escape un-dented but its journey goes on.
Wed 23/9 Kino SC 20:00
