A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
May 4, 2019
Original Title:
Sibelius Jatkumo
Alternate Titles:
Sibelius-continuum
Sibelius-jatkumo
Genres:
Fantasy | Science Fiction
Production Countries:
Finland
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 99
Aino, a pilot intern in her small plane, is assigned on a mission to locate a mysterious lost space probe that has fallen down to earth near the arctic circle. Events make an absurd, surreal, maybe a dadaist turn after which to reach her objectives, Aino and her peers are obliged to search for the answer to the mysteries of the modern human condition. Thus follows a satirical, antimodernist continuum of monologues, mixed-media footage and introductions of modern subjectivity. The film is a flight through the darker sides of fossil-fueled European rationalism, shedding light on techno-capitalist-individualist age of modern alienation, hauntological nostalgies of imagined futures, the profound problematics of translating human communication, the post-human sides of Jean Sibelius – and finally – the reindeers of the north.
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