A fair-haired girl with an idyllic plain and a folk-song in the background. The girl turns to the camera: a pretty face, a big bruise around the eye. The 1950s, Finland: a woman brutally murdered, a crowd of people at the funeral; another crime: two girls buried in a shallow grave... The creators of the film have gathered drastic examples of crimes and violence against women throughout the years, from the 1950s until present times. With the 1990s, the law and social rules changed in regard to domestic violence: marital rape is qualified as a crime. The pro women’s lobby is trying to surmount the glorification of home and family in all its manifestations: good, bad, criminal. A fair-haired girl, a modern city, an idyllic folk-song...
About the artist
Anna Nykyri born 1981, is a visual artist and a director. She works with moving images in the fields of film industry, theatre, visual arts and television. She uses film and archive material to create documentary films and cinematic video installations. The themes of her works are often political, covering questions of power and control, the structures of propaganda qualities: her intention is to construct the films in a way that they give the appearance of a dance of images, the handiwork of a choreographer. She is also interested in the pictorial properties of film – the film as a spatial painting.
A shout – to touch – the silence (2009)
