JELLYMAMA

Short Film (13min.) Finland.
Experimental/Fiction
‘World Premiere’ Status

A body emerges from a jellylike substance into a warped universe in which inside becomes outside and outside inside in an infinite loop. Ephemeral others appear and disappear, diving into, consuming and nourishing one another.

  • Director

    Hertta Kiiski’s works dream of a new affinity between the human and the inhuman, the organic and the inorganic, transforming existing hierarchies. Her photographs, videos, textiles and installations exist in a framework of youth and love with aspects of the magical, the mythical and the esoteric. Like youth itself, Kiiski’s work inhabits a precarious state between daydream and unrest. While she weaves fabulous realities many of her works are made in collaboration with her dogs and her daughters.

    Hertta Kiiski works and lives in Turku, Finland. She earned an MFA from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts (2015) and a BA in Photography from the Turku Arts Academy (2012). Her work is presented in galleries and museums internationally and in Finland. Her third book Otherworld will be published by Kehrer Verlag (DE) in September 2023.

  • Performer

    Karolina Ginman is a freelance dance artist based in Helsinki. She graduated from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London in 2008 and has since worked as a dancer, choreographer, co-choreographer and pedagogue in Finland and Europe.

    Since 2017 she has developed and continues to develop a method of free association for the poetic body that lies at the core of her dancer and choreographic work as well as her teaching. Karolina is a visiting teacher and supervisor at the Theatre Academy in Helsinki. Her artistic practice often dialogues with psychoanalysis and she completed her Master’s Thesis in Psychology in 2019 at University of Helsinki within the ArtsEqual - research initiative.

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CREDITS

A film by

Hertta Kiiski and Karolina Ginman

Re-imagined from Karolina Ginman´s stage work Fluvial - Zodiak, 2022.

Director Hertta Kiiski
Performer Karolina Ginman 
Director of Photography Ville Piippo
Editor Nina Forsman
Light Designer Kristian Palmu
Sound designer Miša Skalskis

First Assistant Director Helena Aleksandrova

Scenography, costume, styling Hertta Kiiski
Assistant scenography, costume, styling Janne Punkari

Gaffer Mikko Kaukonen
Camera assistant  Leandro Leffa

Supervising sound editor Salla Hämäläinen
Boom Operator Lou Strömberg - Aino Sound

Props designer Hertta Kiiski  
Props designer (jellybath) Una Auri

Unit Production Manager Jenni Tulitie
Zodiak visions project manager Sinem Kayacan
Production Coordinator Teemu Turunen

Caterer Jenni Tulitie - Kahvila Verso

Editor Assistant Anniina Kauttonen
Foley Artist Ossi Oikari
Foley Mixer Lauri Marjamaa
Mixing engineer  Salla Hämäläinen – Kalevalasound

Colorist Timo Teräväinen
Master Copies Kinokki - Teijo Pellinen
Graphic Design Samuli Saarinen
Set Photographer Anna Poleteli

Accounting Elina Ruoho-Kurola  - Zodiak

Producer Zodiak - Center for New Dance

Production partner PALO Art Productions 

• Special Thanks
Sinem Kayacan, Ari Tenhula, Stéphane Querrec, Aki Päivärinne

• Camera, Lenses, and Equipment  Kinorentals, Ikifilmi, MOTION PICTURE MANAGEMENT SRL  

• Shooting Locations StudioG

• Copyright Zodiak - Center for New Dance