ED AWARD for Nordic short film
In the Midst of Chaos There Was Shape
6. 9. 2024
18:15
GEH8
original title
Leikkejä eläville
directed by
Saarlotta Virri
produced by
Saarlotta Virri; ELO Film School Finland
year
2023
duration
17 minutes
country
Finland
language
Finnish with English subtitles
Synopsis
In a forest, three elderly sisters are playing hide-and-seek. As the play goes on, time starts to lose its linearity, and past selves merge with present ones. What follows is an odyssey through dreams and memories. A hallucinatory exploration of time and collective imagination.
The film participated in the Riga International Film Festival 2023 or Tallinn Black Nights 2023 and was nominated for the European Film Award for Best Short Film.
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Saarlotta Virri, born in 1993, lives in Helsinki and studies documentary film at Aalto University. She is interested in exploring time, memory and the magical dimension of our everyday existence. Her practice is based on the meticulous observation of ordinary things and the search for small miracles in all phenomena. She directed Harjoituksia (Practice) in 2022, selected at FIPADOC 2023, and co-directed a 23-minute documentary, Verses from the Cemetery, with Tuisku Lehto in 2021.
