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Enactive Cinema Installation Obsession
Team: Pia Tikka, Rasmus Vuori, Joonas Juutilainen
Premiered at the Museum of Contemporary Arts, KIASMA 2005
Credits (Short selection)
ACTORS
Emmi: Maria Järvenhelmi
Henrik: Matti Onnismaa
Jatta: Maija Junno
Newborn: Lumitähti Jyrälä
FILM CREW
Director-cinematographer: Pia Tikka
Co-Cinematographer: Harri Räty
Scenographer: Markku Pätilä
Sound designer: Joonas Jyrälä
Line producer: Pauliina Ståhlberg
Editing: Samu Kuukka
Script consulting: Eeva Tikka
INSTALLATION TEAM
Idea, directing and producing: Pia Tikka
Software architect: Rasmus Vuori
Technical superviser: Mauri Kaipainen
Biosensor design: Joonas Juutilainen
Sound designer: Joonas Jyrälä
Re-recording mixer: Paul Jyrälä
Editor: Minna Nurminen
Installation space design: Jaakko Pesonen & Saara Renvall
Psychophysiological consulting: Niklas Ravaja & Mikko Salminen M.I.N.D Lab
VOICE OVERs
Voices: Maija Junno, Maria Järvenhelmi
JATTA, EMMI’S MOTHER
Philosophical voice-over excerpts from Luce Irigaray: Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche, transl. Gillian C. Gill (New York, Columbia University Press, 1991), and Luce Irigaray: An Ethics of Sexual Difference, transl. Carolyn Burke and Gillian C. Gill (Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 1993).
Digital post-production: Digital Film Finland
COLLABORATION CREDITS
Obsession is produced by Pia Tikka (Oblomovies Oy) in association with the University of Art and Design (UIAH) / School of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design, Media Centre Lume, and Media Lab; the Content Development Support with Periferia Production Oy from AVEK and the Finnish Ministry of Education; Marianna Films Oy; P. Jyrälä Oy. Financial support received from the Finnish Cultural Foundation, the Finnish Film Foundation (script), the Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture AVEK/ Department for media art and Education section, the Arts Council of Finland, FRAME Foundation, the YLE75 Foundation, and the University Network for Communication Sciences, Finland. Biosensors provided by EMFIT Ltd. The research collaboration with Crucible Studio's multidisciplinary research project Interactive narratives in cross-media systems (INiCS), M.I.N.D Lab at the Centre for Knowledge and Innovation Research (CKIR), Helsinki School of Economics, and Graduate School of Audiovisual Media – Elomedia, (former University of Art and Design) Aalto University School of ARTS.
Thanks to Eeva R. Tikka for the 3D video presenting the technical setting of the enactive installation @2014.
A special acknowlegment for those not listed here, who have contibuted to the creative development process of enactive cinema installation since 2001. The development work continues in the pure Eisensteinian spirit - towards the world's first enactive feature film!
