Flame
Director: Sami van Ingen
Script: Sami van Ingen
Director of Photography: Erik Blomberg
Producer: Mika Taanila, Jussi Eerola
Musician: Henri Lindström
Editing: Sami van Ingen
Sound: Olli Huhtanen
Cast: Pera Otso, Regina Linnanheimo, Rakel Leino, Kille Oksanen
Finland / Experimental / 15' / 35mm / Color / 2018
A fractured melodrama, based on damaged frames of the only remaining nitrate reel of the lost feature film Silja – Fallen Asleep When Young (1937). All screening prints and the negative of the film were destroyed in 1959. A sequence from the middle of the film was found in 2015.
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The starting point for van Ingen’s works is often a situation, space or a concept, which he happens to encounter. Random elements that evolve during the working processes play an equally important role in his works.
Filmography
Flame 2018, Hello Everybody 2017, ONE 2015, Top-down 2011, Zoom 1996, (Dis)Integrator 1992
Festivals Attended
Flame: International Film Festival Rotterdam, BFI London Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival, Reykjavik International Film Festival
Awards
Flame: Best Short Film (Audience Award) - Fronteira International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival
Contact: programme@av-arkki.fi