Watch the Trailer. Length 01:19.
When the bucket of an excavator and an artist’s paintbrush move, something is found and something is covered. My film Not everything is visible at once contains observations of digging in a number of overlapping meanings. The film contains scenes of digging at foundations and groundwork sites. I look in my studio at the work in progress and at the model, who is freely interpreting the motion of construction machinery through her movements. I apply paint with a brush and wipe the surface of the paint with a rag – this, too, is digging.
In addition to the composed music, the video features natural sounds from construction sites and the studio. There are also excerpts from an organ piece Ormhuvud composed by Juha T. Koskinen. It was commissioned by Jan Lehtola, who first performed it publicly it at St. Paul’s Church in Helsinki on the 7th of July 2006.
My team: sound designer and composer Juha T. Koskinen, musician Jan Lehtola, editor Mika Koskinen, cinematographer Arttu Peltomaa and model Anni Raitio. I acted as director, screenwriter and cinematographer. The length is 07:00 and the year of production is 2024. The video installation is part of my solo exhibition Syventämisen halu / Desire of deepening, open 14th August – 8th September 2024 at Galleria Huuto in Helsinki.
Anna-Leena Vilhunen
Trailer, 1 min
The Runaway Ball is a short film made with a simple stop motion animation technique. It’s based on my idea to develop further the sense of movement and story telling by using my paintings as the visual material. A painting of an artist turns into an living ball and the artist into a little girl. The ball escapes and the little girl runs after it. They find themselves in the middle of heavy vehicles and excavators.
The film premiered in November 2016. I selected 40 oil and acrylic paintings from 2001-2016 of a variety of sizes which would support the story. The paintings were not painted with the film in mind. The visual material has been arranged to serve the purpose of the story. Animator Fanni Maliniemi and composer Juha T. Koskinen collaborated on the film with me.