Tellervo Kalleinen
"During 2001-2004 I traveled around the globe placing ads:
"Plan a film scene in your home and give a Finnish woman a role in it". I went to every home where I was invited and acted in the roles I was given.
The project was realised in Hamburg, Helsinki, Los Angeles, Seydisfjördur, St.Petersburg and Tallinn. In each place I worked with a local film crew. Altogether 65 scenes were filmed."
You can download the whole movie on her web page: http://www.tellervo.net/
Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen
The New Discoveries Project was concieved by the R.G.S. division for the studies of imaginary lands. This division investigates the geography – physical and political – of utopias, fairy lands, fictionary states and similar entities.
Virpi Lehto
Fire sculpture fits in with the Finnish cultural traditions. They are like the bonfires that have been built in Finland from time immemorial. The Fire Sculpture in the photograph was created in association with "Etnofiesta", in Saarijärvi, in a village that goes back to the Stone Age.
"Kokkolintu" (Fire Bird) was inspired by Kalevala (a collection of ancient Finnish legends). Väinämöinen goes on a raiding party with his men to the North, to steal the "Sampo" (a kind of a horn of plenty). The Witch of the North goes mad with rage to find the Sampo taken, transforms herself into a Fire Bird and flies after the thieves. A fierce fight ensues and the Sampo gets shattered into tiny fragments that scatter all over the world.
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