Kehä / Orbit
2021, short experimental 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. Rather than illustrating their accounts, the film’s black-and-white images remain close to the surfaces of the body. Skin, veins, folds, and hair become unfamiliar landscapes as the camera moves between recognition and abstraction.
Separating the speakers’ voices from conventional portraits allows their accounts to remain contradictory and unresolved. The film considers how betrayal is remembered, explained, and carried within intimate relationships, without casting the women in fixed roles as either victims or perpetrators.
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Director: Rosaliina Paavilainen Cinematography: Aake Kivalo
Edit: Heli Kota
Sound: Joonatan Turkki
Grading: Hannu Käki
Festival screening
DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, Helsinki, Finland (2021)
Exhibition
To Err Is Human, Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä-Vilppula, Finland (2021)
Supported by
Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) and Paulo Foundation