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[quote]Salla Tykkä is a Finnish artist, born in Helsinki in 1973. Her film installations have recently received much critical acclaim in Europe, particularly the films Lasso (2000) and Thriller (2001), both 35mm colour, 3 min 48' and 6 min 50' respectively. Together with Cave (2003, 35mm colour, 10 min), they form a trilogy, which is loosely “about” a girl's passage into adulthood. In each, the focus is a young female protagonist who undergoes various rites of passage. The first international presentation of the completed trilogy took place at an exhibition at the Tramway gallery in Glasgow, Scotland in May 2003.
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In a review of Lasso, critic Polly Staple rhetorically wondered why the film made her cry: “I can think of plenty of Hollywood films that have had that effect, but art is rarely so blatant”
[ http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/ ... ilogy.html ][/quote]
[quote]Tykka's films are mysterious; you know you've witnessed something happening, but not how it all connects. Tykka, barely 30, began making her international reputation with Lasso (2000), a short film in which a young woman looked through a window at a young man performing acrobatic rope tricks, dancing through the loop of a lasso in a neat, bourgeois living room. The incongruity of his solitary dance, and the ceramics, paintings and glassware, the sideboard and the polished dining table in the room, made us wonder what he was about.
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There is a lot of rubbishy self-indulgent work about, which says that it is about "identity", but in Tykka's films - and certain of her photographs - she has used herself, her circumstances, the life she knows, as material in a rather more sophisticated way. There may be catharsis in what she does, but she also treats herself as material - just like all that footage she shoots - for her unfinishable longer films. It only starts to add up when she gets into the editing suite, where she crafts her life into something beyond herself, and beyond her own intentions. This is where it begins to make sense, and where its meanings are first invented. And when we watch, we begin to invent some more.
[ http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/critic/f ... 24,00.html ] [/quote]
[quote]Salla Tykka - Lasso - DivX .avi, 38Mb
video: 624x336 00:03:50 29.96fps 3-pass DivX (lavc) 1.2Mbps
audio: 48KHz 00:03:50 Stereo 176Kbps mp3[/quote]
This little movie is very rare because it was made for the art-galleries circuit. I loved it, it's only 38MB, so I'd recommend you to try it
.THE LINK:
Salla Tykka - Lasso - DivX .avi 
