Silent Trilogy
The Silent Trilogy consists of three short films: Romu-Mattila and a Beautiful Woman (2012), The Moonshiners (2017), and A Planet Far Away (2023). Portraying various characters, from doomed outcasts to moonshiners and a pig, the film is a tribute to silent cinema, its playfulness and vivid experience. The whole film is about the end of everything and the extraordinary attempts to survive that.
Cast
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- Seppo Mattila
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- Jaana Paananen
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- Juha Hurme
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- Aku-Petteri Pahkamäki
Silent Trilogy
Juho Kuosmanen
- Fiction
- Production Country / Year
- Finland 2023
- Language
- ohne Dialog mit en. UT
- Format
- DCP, Black & white, 58min
1.33:1, Discrete 5.1
- Original Title
- Mykkätrilogia
Director & Crew
Juho Kuosmanen
Born in 1979 in Kokkola/Finland. Studied Film at the ELO Helsinki Film School of Aalto University. Active as a director and writer, also for avant-garde opera and theater, and co-founder of a film festival in Kokkola.
Filmography
2010 THE PAINTING SELLERS, Spielfilm
2016 THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MÄKI, Spielfilm
2021 COMPARTMENT NO 6, Spielfilm HOF 2021
2024 SILENT TRILOGY, Spieldilm HOF 2024
“I began the silent film trilogy in the early 2010s, during my early days as a director, when I met Heikki Kossi who had recently moved to Kokkola. I wanted to create a cinematic performance where all sounds are generated live while the film is projected onto the screen, allowing light and shadow to interplay. I’m into soundscapes and ambient sounds, and creating them reminds me of magic. It’s fascinating to see how different objects produce mechanical sounds which, when combined with the visuals, form entirely new meanings. I thought that this kind of cinematic performance captures the magic and playfulness that film screenings had in the early days of cinema.”
Juho Kuosmanen
- Director of Photography
- J-p Passi
- Editor
- Juho Kuosmanen
- Music Composer
- Laura Aiola
- Oona Airola
- Miika Snåre
- Producer
- Jussi Rantamäki
- Emilia Haukka
- Otto Kylmälä