Saaret

Paolo Patelli

Denmark / 2024 / Experimental, Documentary / 23’4”I2504839

Saaret
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SYNOPSIS

Saaret navigates the city of Helsinki as an environmental archipelago composed of heat and energy islands, insulated atmospheres, and artificial climates, leaking both from the past and from the future. Through stories that connect different areas of the city, a hybrid narrator voice emerges as a "data subject”: an ecological subjectivity produced by and through sensing, at once abstract and embodied into different physical forms and temporal perspectives. The essay film alludes to the now-extinct genre of the city symphony while also letting the Super8 film format create a dreamlike temporal ambivalence reminiscent of old travel movies and nature documentaries, which emphasizes the fragility of the image frames as envelopes themselves.

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