Wind Music, 2022
12’15”, HD video, stereo
Wind Music experiments on how to create sound starting from visual information. A motionless person is holding a silk scarf that floats in the air. Its movement is being analyzed and the data is used to accentuate a spectral chord consisting of 30 microtones played on string instruments. The position of the scarf on the y axis and its surface area determine the level and amplitude of frequencies accentuated. The result is a meditative and hypnotic experience.
Directed, filmed, performed and edited by Elina Brotherus / Music composed and produced by Max Savikangas 2022 / Musicians: Ilkka Lehtonen and Aleksi Kotila, violin, Max Savikangas, viola, Markus Hohti, cello and Juho Martikainen, double bass / Computer programming by Anders Pohjola / Thank you: Christiane Morsbach, Museum Kunst der Westküste, Föhr
Musical Piece Akureyri, 2022
1'01", digital slide show as UHD video, stereo
A stocastic piece in the spirit of John Cage and John Baldessari, where throwing snowballs in front of electric wires creates a musical score. The notes are played in pizzicato on a viola to create a cloud of sounds that stay bouncing in the space.
Directed, photographed, performed and edited by Elina Brotherus / Music composed, played on the viola with live-electronics and produced by Max Savikangas 2022 / Thank you: Hlynur Hallsson, Akureyri Art Museum.
Musical Piece Bois Héroult, 2022
0’35”, digital slide show as UHD video, stereo
Directed, photographed, performed and edited by Elina Brotherus / Music composed and produced by Max Savikangas 2022 / Thank you: Édouard de Lamaze, Château de Bois-Héroult / Véronique Souben, FRAC Normandie, Rouen / Julie Faitot, Galerie Duchamp, Yvetot
Nu montant un escalator, 2017
3’30”, 4K video, stereo
After Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase (Nu descendant un escalier), 1912
Directed and performed by Elina Brotherus / Image: Nathalie Durand / Editing: Elina Brotherus and Lauri Astala / Original music and sound design: Antti Ikonen / Post-production: Lauri Astala
Wind Music, 2017
2’54”, HD video, stereo
After Mieko Shiomi, Wind Music, Fluxversion I, 1963: Scores are blown away from stands by wind from a strong fan in the wings as the orchestra tries to hold them.
Directed and filmed by Elina Brotherus / Performed by Elina Brotherus and Vera Nevanlinna / Edition and post-production: Elina Brotherus and Lauri Astala / Sound design: Antti Ikonen
Running Past Camera – Running Toward Camera, 2017
3’19”, 4K video, silent
After John Baldessari, Running Past Camera – Running Toward Camera, 1971
Directed, filmed and performed by Elina Brotherus / Editing and post-production: Elina Brotherus and Lauri Astala
Composition based on say, one gallon of paint (Arles), 2017
8’41”, HD video, silent
After John Baldessari, Composition based on the duration of say, one gallon of paint, from List of Art Ideas for 1st Class of CalArts, Post Studio (If They Have No Ideas of Their Own from which to Make a Piece), 1970.
Directed, performed and filmed by Elina Brotherus / Editing: Elina Brotherus and Lauri Astala / Post-production: Lauri Astala
4’33”, 2017
from "Meaningless Work" series
6’42”, HD video, stereo
After John Cage, 4’33”, 1952
Directed, filmed and performed by Elina Brotherus / Editing: Elina Brotherus and Lauri Astala / Post-production and sound design: Lauri Astala
Marcellon Teema / Marcello's Theme, 2015
from Tangohousut / Tango Trousers series
6'11", HD video, stereo.
Music composed by Maria Kalaniemi, performed by Maria Kalaniemi (accordion, voice) and Eero Grundström (harmonium, harmonica) / Camera and editing: Elina Brotherus / Recording and mixing of music: Eero Grundström / Mastering of music: Taito Hoffrén / Produced by: Elina Brotherus, Maria Kalaniemi, Serlachius Museums, AVEK
Mirror Piece, 2015
2'04", HD video, 16:9, silent
After the original idea of Shiomi Mieko, 1963.
Camera, editing and performance: Elina Brotherus
The Black Bay Sequence, 2010
60'12", HD video, 16:9, silent.
The Black Bay Sequence evolves from an earlier series of works called Baigneurs (I, II and III, 2001/2003). In these Brotherus showed unclothed swimmers in the Northern Arctic lakes and the sea. In this new piece we also see a swimmer go into the water, a woman. The title is a translation of the name of the Finnish lake where the work is filmed – Mustalahti.
Montagne, 2004
1'09", DV PAL 4:3, silent.
The form of a mountain is revealed at the passage of a cloud. A continuation of the research started in the video Miroir, 2001.
Baigneurs, 2001/2003
13'56", DV PAL 4:3, silent
Baigneurs is a 3-channel video installation that portrays nude swimmers in Finnish nature. The form is cyclic, repetitive: a swimmer plunges into water and returns, waves hit the shore; only the places and figures change. The bodies are simultaneously beautiful and banal.
Direction, camera, editing: Elina Brotherus
Miroir, 2001
2'25", DV PAL 4:3, silent.
Miroir is an investigation of a process that takes place in time. Vapor on a mirror disappears and reveals the mirror image, the portrait. The video Miroir is a moving image counterpart to my photographic work Le Miroir, a series of 5 photographs. It can also be seen as an allegory of Photography, which in its origins (daguerrotype) was a mirror (a copper plate coated with silver) where an image gradually appeared during the developing.
Direction, camera, editing: Elina Brotherus