Canary

Every morning thousands of children go to school like canaries in a coal mine, measuring toxicity. The film deals with the chain of harassment and the way we all are broken in our own ways.

Director Biography

Risto-Pekka Blom (b. 1970) graduated from technical education but never felt motivated to pursue a career as technician. For a few years he was looking for his purpose in life, until in the age of 27 he started a short course of Audiovisual Media and Expression, after which he graduated from Tampere Polytechnic School of Art and Media in 2005. Since then Blom’s video art and experimental short films have been exhibited in festivals and events in over twenty countries. His film Theme Park (2015) has won the Main Prize of the National Competition at Tampere Film Festival and Helsinki Short Film Festival in 2015.

Alternative title

Kanarialintu

Director

Risto-Pekka Blom

Country

Finland

Language

Finnish

Subtitles

English

Year

2020

Duration

7 min.

A History of Violence

Saturday, 4 September 20:15 - 21:36 / Kijkhuis 1
81 min.

Also in this session

1. Weekend
Ario Motevaghe, 7 min.
2. Cause of Death
Jyoti Mistry, 19 min.
3. Lizard
Akinola Davies, 18 min.
4. Canary
Risto-Pekka Blom, 7 min.
5. Horacio
Caroline Cherrier, 10 min.
6. The Last Ferry From Grass Island
Linhan Zhang, 14 min.
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