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Henna-Riikka Halonen
 
Henna-Riikka Halonen
 
Moderate Manipulations, 6min, HD digital film, 2012
Photo: Minttu Mantynen
With Financial Support of Saari Manor Residency and AVEK, Finland

Video Moderate Manipulations offers a critical view towards the one’s position within the changing of environment and politics. It aims is to show how positions are subject to constant internally and externally driven change and examine the relation between build and natural environment. The film was done by and in one of the last remaining futuristic houses, designed by Finnish Architect Matti Suuronen in 1968, called Futuro. Two professional advertising models were hired and dressed in outfits reminiscent of Marimekko’s fashion gowns.

Constant repetition in a form of a retake puts emphasis not only on the power relations of each object but also expectations of the future to come. The film becomes as a syntagmatic apparatus, almost as simulation of a chess game, where positions are constantly repeated, calculated and slightly adjusted.The idea of scenario is used in order to underline the different positions one takes in relation to future but also to function as reflexive component referring to the construction of the film itself.

  12 Yellow Stars 2012
  Moderate Manipulations 2012
  Strange Place for Snow 2010
  Manifestation Mecanique 2009
  The Bath House 2009
  Olhava 2008
  Clays Lane 2008
  The Glass Mountain 2008
  Zero Walk 2007
  Tag Line 2006-7
  Local Body 2006-7
  Maja 2006
  I Don’t know what you are trying to Save me from 2006
   
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