REFLECTION

REFLECTION // HEIJASTUS

Fiction/experimental (25min)

Director & Screenwriter Samu Kuukka
Producer Johan-Sebastian Rintala
DP Heini Mäntylä

Production Designer Fíona Geary

Costume Designer María Eugenia Vidal
MUAH Tia Hassinen, Helmi Donner & Vera Savinainen
Editor Samu Kuukka

Sound Design Ville Kuukka & Samu Kuukka
Music by The Gentlemen Losers

Cast:
Helena Aleksandrova as Clarine
Alex Anton as Tristan
Mariangela Pluchino as Clarine’s voice

Production Company:

Fragile Ego Films
Co-produced and Distributed by ELO Film School Finland

Clarine is stuck in memories, and memories are stuck on films, which both degrade and vanish. As she keeps watching old home movies isolated in her hotel room, the screen becomes a mirror from which she tries to see herself. Levels of subjectivity, narrative, and reality entwine into a surrealist fever dream of scopophilic cinéma pur. The final layer of meaning is all of us watching the film on the screen-mirror in the theatre.

Located somewhere in the cracks between experimental film and narrative fiction, Reflection carries on the traditions of art cinema – with nods to Antonioni’s Blow-Up, Resnais’s Marienbad, and Deren’s Meshes – but approaches the mechanics of film language from a modern, deconstructionist angle.

Premiere at Film Fest Bremen 2023