[rohrpost] INVITATION TO FILM PREMIERE : Friday April 12th, 20:00

[Antye Greie Ripatti]

INVITATION TO FILM PREMIERE : Friday April 12th, 20:00, please forward

Eikka: luotolainen, hailuotolainen, manterelainen
a documentary film by Kyd Campbell, 2013

"I don’t quite remember, but I think Eikka got 54 votes… and that’s the most that anyone ever got in the municipal council elections." Matti Hautanen, Hailuoto

The documentary film "EIKKA: luotolainen, hailuotolainen, manterelainen" by Kyd Campbell, was created on Hailuoto island in Finland. Through interviews, video recordings, photographs and story collecting, Kyd Campbell (CAN) tells a poetic memory of the late Hailuoto resident Eino Merilä commonly known as Eikka, who died in December 2011. The artist/curator was invited by Hai Art to create a portrait of Eikka and his large collection that he kept on his property. Memories and images were recorded in Hailuoto in December 2012, addressing issues of preservation, environmental activism, communication and community in the Bothnian Bay. Hailuoto is an island of 200.53 square kilometers with a current permanent population of 989 residents. The islet is rising out of the sea, at a continuous rate of 1cm per year, due to post-glacial rebound. This work is part of a larger body of research and production on the subject of memory and archiving within remote communities. http://3artists.tumblr.com

Hosted by Bootsbau gallery in Berlin.
http://bootsbauproject.de/
Richardstr. 43
12055 Berlin, Germany

Event details:
- Friday, April 12th, 20:00 : premiere, open invitation
- Thursday April 25th : 19:00 : finnissage and presentation of a small book about the work
- gallery open Thursday - Saturday 14:00-19:00 & by appointment until April 27th

28 min colour HD
Direction/camera/audio/cut: Kyd Campbell
Sound/music: Antye Greie-Ripatti (AGF)
Project management/research: Nella Nikkilä & Antye Greie-Ripatti, Hai Art
Creative assistant: Marta Rebollo Ruis
Translation: Johanna Koskinen & Tiina Prittinen 
Di color: Ana Izquierdo
Research assistance: Tuomas Merilä & Kari Blomster at Hailuoto Public Library
Project mentors: Jr. Professor Jakob Hüfner, Bauhaus University, and Cinematographer/artist: Alexander du Prel
Created in the frame of MFA studies in Media Art & Design, Bauhaus University, Weimar
Commissioned by Hai Art, Hailuoto 2013 

Kyd Campbell was born in Montreal in 1979. She first studied textile and fashion design followed by sculpture and experimental video at Concordia University. In 2004, she founded Frontierlab, a nomadic research and production platform for art and design and the Tiny Noise project for presenting experimental sound art. She is an artist, curator, educator and cultural manager, and has worked in different contexts including Canada, Germany, Bulgaria, Serbia, Senegal, Peru, Kosova and Portugal. She is currently completing her MFA in the Faculty of Media at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. Her creative practice is influenced by observations of reoccurrence, a critical view on media practices and an intuitive view on history, community and environmental politics through an aesthetic of small, poetic details. She is based between Berlin(DE) and Cusco(PE) and is currently working on a series of short experimental documentaries.

More info: kyd at frontierlab.org , bootsbauproject at gmail.com

"I thought I was challenging myself to record what was no longer there, but I realised I am               documenting what is taking its place." - reflection after the first days of filming "Eikka"