Kehä (Orbit)
2021, experimental short documentary
17:11, HD video, sound
“It was about power. For me, it was a way of taking that power back. Secretly.”
Trailer
Full film available for professional preview on request.
Orbit brings together the voices of women of different ages speaking about infidelity and its consequences. The black-and-white images do not illustrate their accounts. The camera stays so close to skin, veins, folds, and hair that the body is at times hard to recognise.
The women are never shown as portraits, and their accounts are left contradictory. They describe how betrayal is remembered, explained, and carried within a relationship, and the film does not cast them as either victims or perpetrators.
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Director: Rosaliina Paavilainen
Script: Rosaliina Paavilainen
Cinematography: Aake Kivalo
Editing: Heli Kota
Sound design: Joonatan Turkki
Lighting: Ville Tolvanen
Colour grading: Hannu Käki
Graphics: Kalle Järvenpää
Translation: Saga Vera
Production assistant: Henna LampinenVoice cast: Tuuli Heinonen, Sinikka Moilanen, Sara Paasikoski and Rebekka Palanne
Festival screening
DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, Helsinki, Finland (2021)
Exhibitions
To Err Is Human, Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä-Vilppula, Finland (2021)
Kuvan Kevät 2020 – MFA Degree Show, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland
Supported by
Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike), Finnish Cultural Foundation and Paulo Foundation