Baked Alaska

KIMMO MÖYKKY — CO-DIRECTOR, CO-PRODUCER, EDITOR
Kimmo Moykky is a London-based Finnish filmmaker and editor. He moved to the UK after studying Theatre in Literature at the University of Helsinki. He continued his studies with a BA in Film and Video at the London College of Printing, followed by a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning. He works as a specialist film and video technician and digital media teacher at Central Saint Martin's College. A module leader for Graduate Diploma students at Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts, he also teaches digital media production there, in addition to teaching digital media short courses at CityLit in London.

His first feature film The Viva Voce Virus (2008) was co-directed and co-produced with Kathleen Bryson. His short film The Sons of Ra is in postproduction, to be completed in early 2019. The Sons of Ra is a partly animated live-action conspiracy horror, and has been created in collaboration with animator/artist Kevin Rowe. Kimmo's latest ongoing work includes series of experimental movement based short films, some shown on Instagram.

KATHLEEN BRYSON — CO-DIRECTOR, CO-PRODUCER, SCREENWRITER, EDITOR
Alaskan director Kathleen Bryson attended the Berlinale Talent Campus in 2009 for Directing and Screenwriting, based on the feature The Viva Voce Virus (co-directed with Kimmo Möykky), for which she also wrote the screenplay, and based also on a feature screenplay she wrote entitled Spaceships Over Corvallis. The Oregonian described The Viva Voce Virus as “a campy new classic... The crowning jewel of the Siren Nation Film Festival... Critically engaging satire that oh-so-eloquently skewers not just the Hollywood of yesteryear, but the continual doublespeak of Hollywood's present.”

Receiving her MA in Independent Film and Video from the London College of Printing in 1998, Kathleen is a longtime practitioner of DIY no-budget/low-budget cinema, and has been peripherally involved with no-budget guerrilla film collective Exploding Cinema for many years. As a writer, in addition to four produced feature screenplays (and four in the waiting room), she has had three fiction novels published (the most recent is The Stagtress, published by Fugue State Press in 2019) and over 30 short stories and poems in publications ranging from Magma to Aesthetica.

Always centring the visual experience, whether it be filmic, image-rich text or stage, Kathleen’s other career as a painter has resulted in 10 solo shows, the tenth of which was called Once Upon a Spacetime, exhibited at London’s Royal Institution in March 2019. Many of Kathleen’s previously created wilderness-themed artworks were used to give Baked Alaska its unique visual aesthetic. Technically Kathleen’s day job is that of an evolutionary anthropologist, whereby she scientifically explores the same themes of hybridity, animality, empathy, outsiderness, wilderness, feminism, hallucinations, fairy tales and bisexuality as in her films, novels, roles and paintings.