Les Siffleurs

Experimental Finnish movie from 1961, about one night in the city. In 1960, the director Eino Ruutsalo spoke of the movie with these words: "The camera moves around the night - loose images are created - they create memories, consortia in us, or do not create. Man as such is interesting. Woman for a man. Man for a woman. There is no final destiny - there are only events. Different people touch each other - nothing is too solid and not ready. Everything hovers and gets new shapes".

Tree of processed film material is intended to KINEMATOGRAF movement of the backbone using to base the new pictorial movement and phrase. Movie Screen efficacy has been added to paintings. Different kinds of film material is painted, scratched, punched or etched. This has resulted in different directions and at different speeds, functional movement sequences and the "normal film" outside the functional image.

The strange, disjointed love story in the existentialist film Windy Day transported the young lovers to an island off the town of Kotka.

A bohemian writer travels to the countryside for inspiration and falls for a woman who lives in an unhappy marriage.

A crazy found-footage collage composed of monotonous, advertising, and playful shots is overlaid with hand-painted illustrations directly on the film emulsion. The outlines of objects peel away from their photographic record and jump into another film. The open refrigerator door spews out its contents until there is a syncopated pause, during which the calf of a leg trembles under the sensual vibration of the word FOOD. “Our food is radioactive. The fallout descends upon our cities and ourselves. It penetrates everywhere. The world takes on new colours, values are upset, and existence involves risk. Only dreams and expectations remain.” — Eino Ruutsalo