Aquarela
Curated in collaboration with MIRAGE Film Festival, this film program is part of Ultima's context program at VEGA, Fluid Formations, exploring the multispecies ecologies we are part of and the histories that continue to echo and affect us today. Read more about the entire event here.
Søndag 13. oktober
Det blir samtale med regissør Victor Kossakovsky, som for sine filmer har vunnet over 100 internasjonale priser og er kjent for sitt storslåtte filmspråk, i etterkant av visningen.
“Through the lens of water you are able to experience all known human emotion,” explains Victor Kossakovsky, director of Aquarela. During a stay on the Baltic coast, he noticed how water changes from hour to hour with new colors, movements and energy. Aquarela is his attempt to capture all these different emotions, be they exquisite or unnerving. There's ecstasy and inspiration, but also destruction and human suffering. We see cars sinking into Lake Baikal, which thawed weeks earlier than normal. Caught in an intense storm, a sturdy sailing ship is no more than a helpless plaything. A wall of water surges through Miami during Hurricane Irma. Here, humans are reduced to supporting roles as Kossakovsky prioritizes the breathtaking scenes that reveal the many personalities of water – in the wild waves and gentle brooks, on melting ice caps and at the highest waterfall in the world. The scenes are amplified by the film score, composed by composer and cellist Eicca Toppinen and performed by Finnish symphonic metal band Apocalyptica.