Farewell to Snow – Snowplay

Snowplay – Pointing the landscape, photo Sanni Priha.

Farewell to Snow – Snowplay
Photos: Sanni Priha.

Doclisboa 2024 Seleccao oficial.

Farewell to Snow – Snowplay Premiere at Doclisboa 2024.

Original title: Jäähyväiset lumelle – Lumileikki
Genre: Creative documentary
Duration: 14’
Script: Sanni Priha & Jarkko Kela
Director: Sanni Priha
Sound Design: Jarkko Kela
Graphic Desig: Anne Virta
Finance:
Script: Finnish Film Foundation / Eero Tammi
Development: AVEK Mediarata
Production: Kone Foundation
Artist grants: Kone Foundation,
Finnish Cultural Foundation.
Filmed: 100%
Forums: Ji.hlava New Visions Forum: Europe 2022
Premiere: Doclisboa 2024.
Producer: Tuuli Penttinen-Lampisuo /
Poike Productio

In Northern Finland, there is still a piece of forest with a microclimate that resembles the winter landscape of childhood memories. Snowplay lures a poet to explore the sensual energy of nature. Sensations emerge in the touch of snow that defy the idea of the human individual separate from the rest of nature. Yet the love between the human and the disappearing snow is full of complexities.

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Snowplay poster.