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AUDIO PLAY MOVIE ANDJUST 
  


    [Andjust] 
  
  31.5.2021



 


Written out :


"Andjust is a work of imagist excess based on collage, bricolage and a collector mania of objets trouvés. It is a Dadaist visual poem based on superimpositions, installations, collisions, animations, reflections and negative images. From sober observations it switches to low angles and majestic landscape views. Mox Mäkelä's cinema emerges from original conceptual ideas of hers. At times I have fleeting associations to others, like Harry E. Smith's occultist Heaven and Earth Magic, but in the approach to animation only." 
[ Antti Alanen, Film Diary ] 

   


"Folkloric, dystopian, surreal, satirical and brilliant, ‘Andjust’ narrates an utterly immersive journey through the detritus of materialism re-moored  as if to a fairy tale The film is a treasury of documentation, a catalogue of poetry, music, animation and collage, told with a poetic voice that is both sophisticated and naïve.  Myriad detail--stolen brooms, wooden figures, spoons, spoiled preserves, crows, falling airplanes, tattered garments, the startlingly carved faces of the old--joins with the whole of our innocent, magical and menacing world. It is epic work."

[ Marilyn Bowering, Canadian author ]


"The language is simply enchanting and the criticism is stinging!"

[ Terhi Tuomi, Art Curator ]


“… presents his pants, which consist almost exclusively of repair patches. The scene is reminiscent of realities that are no longer visible in the cultural life of the middle class… ”


“In Andjust, the dichotomy between human and non-human as well as analog and electronic images is transcended. "


[ Kari Yli-Annala, the Niin & Näin, the philosophical magazine 4/2020, excerpts from the article ] 

niin & näin


"It’s a complex work, well written and fabulously voiced."

[ Minou Norouzi, filmmaker, writer, curator ]





A pictorial interpretation of detail:




"If Andjust’s head has been broken by the shrapnel of war in places, the traveler’s is instead infested by a dogged dream of and wish for connection, peace, and harmony to be born between human fates."

(a quote from the script)



 

   The painting by Mark Landis 2020





Grief News:


 For memory of Osmie Järvinen                   † 2020


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