CONTINUUM

23´30´´, BetaSP PAL

By Marikki Hakola

 CONTINUUM is a dance video on a theme of war, power and violence. In the world of Continuum people live and die in circumstances, where civilization is only a gauze misting the sight in the reality of violence. In a continuous process - continuum - violence spreads out from individual acts into structural forms of violence in society and reflects back again in individual human destinations. CONTINUUM is a description of a crisis, where everybody is a victim.

 The form of the dance video CONTINUUM refers to media, which shows us glimpses of war in the daily flow of information. Authentic materials shot in the war zones and illusions recorded in a studio are made parallel, challenging the spectator to evaluate the concepts of reality and fiction. CONTINUUM is a media artist Marikki Hakola's audiovisual interpretation of a dance work "Requiem" .

Direction: Marikki Hakola

Choreographer: Sanna Kekäläinen

Camera: Raimo Uunila

Sound design: Epa Tamminen

Audiovisual design: Marikki Hakola, Raimo Uunila

Music: Mozart, Shoin Kanki

Producer: Marikki Hakola / KROMA Productions Ltd. 1999

Continuum is not recommended to persons under 14 years of age.

Distributor: KROMA Productions Ltd.

PREMIERE

27th March, 1999

AWARDS

State Quality Award '99, National Council for Cinema, Finland