Shadow codex

Saara Ekström

Finlande / 2021 / Expérimental, Documentaire / 12’30”I2202626

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SYNOPSIS

[EN] Filmed in the empty Turku County Prison, Finland, (active between 1835–2007) Shadow Codex documents the surveillance machinery, architecture and layers of messages drawn, engraved, glued and burned on the prison walls. These markings are passages into the shadows, the darker side of a person's psyche, but likewise represent the murky dreams of a society which hides the "dirt" it generates.

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