Festivalmotiv

LOST FOOTAGE Thursday 18 January 2018, 9.30 pm

Films by Ashim Ahluwalia (India) and Juho Kuosmanen (Finland)

Published and then lost. We show two impossible remakes of films which no longer exist - the lost footage. In the film Events in a Cloud Chamber (2016, 21 min., see image above) the indian director Ashim Ahluwalia together with the avante garde artist Akbar Padamsee, recreates the lost original film from 1969 solely from the latter's memory of it. And Juho Kuosmanen, a Cannes award winner for his film "The happiest day in the life of Olli Mäki" similarly recreates — based entirely on the advertising— what was possibly the very first Finnish feature film entitled The Moonshiners (2017, 16 min., see image below) dating from 1907.

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