Orange Morning Paper River

Absurd as the world today.

Irrational & dream-like film is a montage of strange images and stream of consciousness.

The original 16 mm film footage has been altered, literally destroyed, by scratching, drawing, painting and taping grass, yarn, spices, letters, text and images on the film. The reworked footage has been reshot and edited digitally.

The audio is an abstract layered montage of voice fragments and sounds of scraping, whizzing, buzzing and rattling recorded during playback of the reworked thick film reel on a 16 mm editing table.

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  • KirsiMarja Metsähuone
    Director
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    6 minutes 35 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 1, 2011
  • Country of Origin:
    Finland
  • Shooting Format:
    16 mm converted to digital video
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • CINESONIKA International Film and Video Festival
    Vancouver
    Canada
    February 1, 2012
    World premiere
  • Gallery Å Solo Exhibition
    Turku
    Finland
    March 1, 2012
    European premiere
  • THE BUDDHA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
    Maharashtra
    India
    June 10, 2019
    South Asian premiere
    Best Editing Award
  • CUZCO UNDERGROUND CINEMA FESTIVAL
    CUZCO
    Peru
    October 3, 2019
    South American Premiere
Director Biography - KirsiMarja Metsähuone

KirsiMarja Metsähuone works with film, video and photography.

Themes of her work include human interaction, urban action, juxtaposing the incompatible, feminist issues, decay, memory, body, identity, deconstruction.

Metsähuone holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute/United States in experimental film and photography, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts/Finland in media arts. Her videos and films have been shown e.g. in the United States, Finland, France, Italy, Spain, England, Canada, India, South America.

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Director Statement

KirsiMarja Metsähuone is interested in non-narrative in film and narration in photographic expression. Often she works with image-text hybrids.

Her experimental short films and videos are without a traditional narrative and the structure is often times cyclical relying on repetition, close-ups and semi-abstract ambiguity.