Item 3330 - Strange Place For Snow

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ES OVNI RSC-3330

Title

Strange Place For Snow

Date(s)

  • 2010 (Accumulation)

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Video

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Using the principle and the form of the Moebius strip subverting and structuring the spatial and timely experience this video explores the space of anticipation, anxiety and strategy. Every filmic event and space produces new narratives and scenarios leading the passages from one realm to the next. The structural and symbolic use of Moebius strip, a double and the references to futuristic literature such as Vladimir Mayakovsky's The Bed Bug,the narration from H G Wells' Time Machine and 1984 by Orwell, intend to reflect the future and the complex identity of a historical border town in Northern England, taking place against the backdrop of its regeneration strategy. Several viewpoints are allowed to enter the discourse, highlighting the potential for imaginative projection,creative confusion and contradictory beliefs.

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Press: No; Catalogue: No; Itinerancies: No; Online archive: No; Television: No

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  • English

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    Llengua: Inglés. Països: United Kingdom (Great Britain)

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    Master sin especificar Revisar duración 9.10 falta sinopsis en catalan falta sinopsis en castellano All rights reserved Henna-Riikka Halonen the production of the film Strange Place For Snow was supported by Arts Council England, English Heritage, Inspire Nothumberland and AVEK, FINLAND

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    strange-place-for-snow

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    ES_OVNI_2010_halhen001-strange-place-for-sn

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    OVNI

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    Dates of creation revision deletion

    Language(s)

    • Catalan

    Script(s)

    • Latin

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    @Henna-Riikka Halonen

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