Short Profile: Jani Ruscica
The young Finnish artist and film maker Jani Ruscica is building an oeuvre in which the most alien issues seem to belong together in a natural way. A beam of light moves along the wall as if someone is trying to describe something in words; a man tries to turn into stone and grass; and an old melody is reanimated as an almost forgotten puppet play has new life blown into it. When Ruscica puts them together in his films, they enter into an illogical but very supple bond.
Music and sound are at the heart of the four films and the performance shown in Short Profile. They are presented as a language that is spoken and can be understood – even if it isn’t with our reason, then with our feelings or body. For instance in the trilogy Contrapuntal, for which the artist had the performance of a street artist first adapted by a choir and then by the player of the singing saw. He presents them in reverse order so we get back to the original version in three steps.
In the première of Batbox/Beatbox, that will be screened after the debate with Jani Ruscica, we see bats sense their surroundings with sonar. Their sound and motion acquire a partner in street dancers and a poet from New York who allow themselves to be inspired by the cracks and uneven features in the walls and streets of their city. The screening will be followed by a live performance in which two musicians react to the sonar of the bats.
In dit verzamelprogramma
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Contrapuntal
Trilogy in which a musical theme keeps changing from the street to the bare plains and back to the forests. -
Pilgrim
A man melts into his surroundings. In his first film, Jani Ruscica already created a special link between image and sound. -
Swan Song
A personal quest for the Sicilian background of the maker through the traditional song Ciuri, Ciuri. -
