A Time of Roses for Those Who Don’t Have the Time
35mm slide projection | digital sound 2.0 | 2015
description
An exploration into the 1969 sci-fi film, A Time of Roses, by Finnish director Risto Jarva. In the film, historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years prior. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude model and finds a perfect actress to reconstruct her life and death in front of a TV camera.
An inversion of time takes place, with the film being shot in the early 70s and set in the early 2000s, Lappalainen fixes his attention on the past from a fictional future. A sequence of still-images from the original film is juxtaposed with a sound piece in which the ideological content of the film is dissected and read aloud by a computer-generated voice. In so doing the installation establishes relations between the possible future imagined by Jarva and the present day. Meanwhile, a strike at a nuclear plant is covered up by the media.
An inversion of time takes place, with the film being shot in the early 70s and set in the early 2000s, Lappalainen fixes his attention on the past from a fictional future. A sequence of still-images from the original film is juxtaposed with a sound piece in which the ideological content of the film is dissected and read aloud by a computer-generated voice. In so doing the installation establishes relations between the possible future imagined by Jarva and the present day. Meanwhile, a strike at a nuclear plant is covered up by the media.
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