Who Has Seen the Wind?
How does it feel to live next to 170 year old creatures? This short impressionistic film documents an old forest area called Mortin männikkö in Rovaniemi, Northern Finland. As an array of glimpses and moments the film tries to summarise a decade of life next to this vivid & forested tableau vivant.
The Poem:
Who Has Seen the Wind?
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by.
–Christina Rossetti, 1872–
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Panu JohanssonDirector
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Panu JohanssonWriter
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Panu JohanssonProducer
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Panu JohanssonCinematography
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Panu JohanssonEditing
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Panu JohanssonSound
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Susannah LouiseVoice-over
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Project Type:Documentary, Experimental
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Runtime:5 minutes
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Completion Date:May 31, 2023
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Production Budget:600 EUR
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Country of Origin:Finland
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Country of Filming:Finland
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Super 8 Film
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Treeks, Parks, People - Museum ExhibitionRovaniemi
Finland
June 1, 2023
World Premiere -
2024 Inflamável – Festival de Curtas em Super 8, BrazilFlorianópolis
Brazil
April 4, 2024
South American Premiere -
2024 Analog Resistance FestivalYverdon-les-Bains
Switzerland
April 13, 2024 -
2024 Experiments In Cinema Festival,Albuquerque
United States
April 23, 2024
Panu Johansson is a media artist and an experimental filmmaker from Finland. He works with moving image, photography and sound. His works have been exhibited in various festivals, exhibitions and microcinemas since the year 2000.
Reoccurring themes in Johansson's work are memories, landscape, the history of experimental film and cultural history. When working with moving image he prefers analogue film, though he is open to all materials. Johansson collects images and sounds eagerly and also likes to use "found footage” materials whenever possible. His works could be described with terms such as landscape film, diary film or personal film.