Short documentary screened at the International Festival of Films on Art
25.03.2014
Le Pavilion de la Finlande à l’exposition universelle de 1900 à Paris, a short documentary film about this legendary landmark in the history of art and design has been screened in the Horizons official programme at the 32nd FIFA, International Festival of Films on Art.
The short film uses 3D modelling and animation and connected archival materials with computer generated imagery in order to render a simulation of the Finnish Pavilion.
The eight-and-a-half-minute film created by the researchers and students from the Department of Media of the School of Arts, Design and Architecture takes its viewers on a journey in time to see the Finnish Pavilion at the Paris World Fair in 1900.
Initially commissioned by Musée d’Orsay for the 2012 exhibition Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931) A Passion for Finland the documentary was produced by Lily Díaz-Kommonen, and it's a collaborative artwork by the Systems of Representation research group that is also working on the 3D historical reconstruction of the Pavilion.
Designed in the purest Finnish Art Nouveau style, the pavilion is a plea for Finland, which was then under Russian rule. It was the work of the three-man design team of Herman Gesellius, Armas Lindgren and Eliel Saarinen, with prominent Finnish artists also contributing to the project.
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Further information:
Professor Lily Díaz, tel. +358 40 725 6925, lily.diaz [at] aalto [dot] fi
Systems of Representation: http://sysrep.uiah.fi/research/the-finnish-pavilion-at-the-1900-world-fair/
FIFA: http://www.artfifa.com