Anna Nykyri

1981 Kaustinen

As a visual artist and a director, I work with moving images in the fields of film industry, theatre, visual arts and television. I use film and archive material to create documentary films and cinematic video installations. The themes of my works are often political, covering questions of power and control, the structures of propaganda and latent violence, for example. My works include dance-like qualities: my intention is to construct the films in a way that they give the appearance of a dance of images, the handiwork of a choreographer. I am also interested in the pictorial properties of film – the film as a spatial painting.

In recent years, human rights organizations have repeatedly criticized the Nordic countries, Finland in particular, for their unwieldy response to violence against women. Research shows that the majority of sexual and other kinds of violence against women takes place in intimate relationships, within the private sphere. Five fragments of the extinct empathy (working title) is a short documentary about the lack of empathy for and violence against women in the Finland. The film is produced by Joonas Berghäll / Oktober Oy.

In collaboration with: YLE TV2 / Documentary project, The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture AVEK, Finnish Culture Foundation, Arts Council of Finland, Amnesty International and UN Women.

 

 

Funeral of Kyllikki Saari, Isojoki 1953 (Photo: Lehtikuva)

Body and coffin of Kyllikki Saari, Isojoki 1953 (Photo: Lehtikuva)

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