Private Project

Sibelius Continuum

Aino, a pilot intern in her small plane, is assigned on a mission to locate a mysterious lost space probe that has fallen down to earth near the arctic circle. Events make an absurd, surreal, maybe a dadaist turn after which to reach her objectives, Aino and her peers are obliged to search for the answer to the mysteries of the modern human condition. Thus follows a satirical, antimodernist continuum of monologues, mixed-media footage and introductions of modern subjectivity. The film is a flight through the darker sides of fossil-fueled European rationalism, shedding light on techno-capitalist-individualist age of modern alienation, hauntological nostalgies of imagined futures, the profound problematics of translating human communication, the post-human sides of Jean Sibelius – and finally – the reindeers of the north.

  • Aarni Vaarnamo
    Director
  • Aarni Vaarnamo
    Writer
  • Aarni Vaarnamo
    Producer
  • Aino Johansson
    Key Cast
    "Aino"
  • Aksa Korttila
    Key Cast
    "Eugénie"
  • Timo Torikka
    Key Cast
    "Danglars"
  • Tapio Liinoja
    Key Cast
    "Janne"
  • Laura Tuomi
    Key Cast
    "Milja"
  • Olga Pemberton
    Key Cast
    "Mercedes"
  • Heikki Metsämäki
    Key Cast
    "Morcerf (voice)"
  • Haendel Gabriel Guerrero Solis
    Sound
  • Dave Berg
    3D-animation
  • Björn
    Music
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Sibelius-jatkumo
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Genres:
    Sci-fi, satire, avant-garde
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 39 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    May 4, 2019
  • Country of Origin:
    Finland
  • Country of Filming:
    Finland
  • Language:
    Finnish, French, German, Italian, Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital, 16mm, 8mm
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Aarni Vaarnamo

Aarni Vaarnamo is an experimental filmmaker and media artist from Helsinki, Finland working with hand developed film footage and mixed media sources. Vaarnamo is interested in social critique of the rationalistic euro-centric society and individualistic culture – investigating the post-human, deep ecological and post-fossil discourses.

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