REDDENING
Short Film (15min.) Finland.
Fiction/Fantasy/Experimental
‘World Premiere’ Status
“Four good friends travel through time and space for an alchemical and sensuous celebration full of phantasms. Familiar yet unexpected faces appear along the way.”
REDDENING is a genre-bender arthouse fantasy film, at the intersection of contemporary performance and experimental fiction.
Makers invite us to a strange world engulfed in delicious visuals and exhilarating music, bursting with joy; wonder, passion, tenderness, and bodily liquids.
Performers take us by the hand to go on a deeply layered yet lighthearted journey with them.
The title REDDENING refers to the final stage of alchemy; Rubedo, in which the alchemical transformation takes place.
Historically, the practice of alchemy aimed turning base metals into silver and gold, but further, to reach Magnum Opus; divine illumination, heavenly bliss and the elixir of life.
Different disciplines considered the alchemical transformation to take place in the stratum relevant to them; materia, psyche, spirit. Nonetheless, for the transformation to occur, alchemists had to go through a transmutation themselves.
REDDENING explores how a film, as a sensuous object, can pleasure; repulse, nurture, and overall transmute the body of the audience.
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Director & Editor
Sinem is a visual artist/filmmaker, originally from Istanbul and based in Helsinki.
She holds an MA degree in Filmmaking and is currently a doctoral candidate in the field of Contemporary Art. Her practice and research focus on embodied and sensual forms of knowledge production as well as the concepts and methods of performance and performativity.
Her works have been screened in film festivals, gallery settings as well as digital channels such as NOWNESS, and internationally exhibited in platforms such as the Research Pavilion in Venice. She has been awarded various multi-year research and artistic work grants.
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Performance Director & Choreographer
Elina Pirinen’s artistry and practice is entangled in choreography, dancing, music making and experimental writing, pedagogy and curating. She is committed to make stage, performative, aural and linguistic autopsies to the subconscious registers, deep primary emotions and intelligence through them. The focuses of her art are in imagination, romanticism, doom, obsessions, nightmares, daydreams, taboos, sorrow, lust, despair, joy, suffering, silence, horror, satisfaction, shame, unwantedness, consolation and hope driven by feministic psychoanalytical depth and try to say something about these realities and experiences here through it.
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CREDITS
A Film By
Sinem Kayacan & Elina Pirinen
Director, Editor
Sinem Kayacan
Performance Director, Choreographer
Elina Pirinen
Screenplay
Sinem Kayacan & Elina Pirinen
Re-Imagined From Elina Pirinen's Stage Work Mortal Tropical Dances
Cast
Blood Corpus Félix Urbina Alejandre
Sulphur Corpus Jenni-Elina Von Bagh
Mercury Corpus Simone Lorenzo Benini
Rosesalt Corpus Karolina Ginman
Mother Elina Pirinen
Assistant Director Mariangela Pluchino
Director Of Photography Theofanis Kavvadas
Ist Ac Henrik Leppänen
Gaffer Simo Friman
Grip Joonas Saine
Bestboy Leevi Pienihäkkinen
Assistant Grip Iitu Virmavirta
Music Composer Ville Kabrell
Sound Recordist, Supervising Sound Editor, Re-Recording Mixer
Salla Hämäläinen / Aino Sound - Kalevala Studio
Foley Artist Ossi Oikari
Foley Mixer Lauri Marjamaa
Music Mixer Sami Sarhamaa
Costumes, Make-Up Jouko Korkeasaari
Dramaturgy Consultation, Make-Up Assistant Heidi Vaatanen
Set Design Sinem Kayacan
Set Design Assistant Teemu Turunen
Scenography Assistant On Set Vera Kotkaniemi
Poem Elina Pirinen
Set Photographer Anna Poleteli
Color Grading Juhani Vuorisalo / Gradeone
Visual Effects, Compositing, Titles/ Credits Sinem KayacanMaster Copies, Dcp Teijo Pellinen / Kinokki
Equipment Valofirma & Zodiak
Producer Zodiak - Center For New Dance
Production Partner Palo Art Productions
Production Managers Johanna Flander, Jenni Tulitie
Zodiak Visions Project Managers Ari Tenhula, Sinem Kayacan
Production Coordinators Teemu Turunen, Ali Al-Saffu
Accounting Elina Ruoho-Kurola / Zodiak
Copyright Zodiak - Center for New Dance