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Asphalto
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FINLAND
/ 1998 / English, Finnish / Color / 35mm (1:2.35) /44 min
Director, Script, Producer: Ilppo Pohjola
Photography: Arto Kaivanto
Editing: Heikki Salo
Sound: Jim McKee Production
Company: Crystal Eye Ltd.
Source: The Finnish Film Foundation
Kanavakatu 12, FIN - 00160 Helsinki FINLAND
Phone: 358-9-6220-3021 / Fax: 358-9-6220-3060
E-mail: ses@ses.fi
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Ilppo
Pohjola
Born in 1957. Vanguard Finnish filmmaker. His works Daddy and the
Muscle Academy (1991) and P(l)ain Truth (1993) have each
had nearly 100 film festival screenings. He is tremendously active
in a variety of media including television, publishing, and art, and
has even had a one - man exhibition of his photographs. |
This conceptual
film cruises a fine line between documentary and fiction, its dynamics
of relentless tension, speed and destruction propelled by a mix of
flashing images and driving music. A stunt - car that keeps running
into crashes, female models who strike poses in rubber suits, thirteen
gasoline stands from all over Finland. As these become the metaphor
for the trials and tribulations for the encounter and relationships
between men and women, the film reveals itself to be both a deconstruction
of the narrative structure of classical cinema, as well as emphatically
idiosyncratic on its own terms. This is a film to be experienced as
a catharsis without the intervention of logic. But the experience
of viewing the images, which (apart from whether or not this was the
director's actual intention) seem to depict a post - nuclear war landscape
from the science fiction of the near future, imprint the viewer's
memory with a revalationary vision of the ruin of civilization seeming
to run under its own power, or alternatively, an aesthetic of decadent
beauty. [Fukushima
Yukio]
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