An Uncountable Number of Threads / moving image / 21:09 / 2023

Travel films have an established format with their own conventions, history and baggage. It is a medium that has all too often sought to control, define and dictate perceptions of ‘other’ places. Comprised of footage shot while travelling on group excursions across Russia in 2019, An Uncountable Number of Threads is an attempt to draw out the ethical restrictions of a travelogue, while questioning how (and why) to make one. At times there is an awkward tourist-gaze, aware of its outsider position. But as a self-reflexive work that considers its own creation, it ultimately unravels, as the artist rationalises themselves out of a particular way of working, inviting the viewer into their uncertainty.

Title design by Fredrik Enges
Second voice by Elina Vainio
Field recordings by Eero Yli-Vakkuri

Made as part of the research group In Various Stages of Ruins, facilitated by HIAP / Connecting Points

Exhibited at Hippolyte and Lappeenranta Art Museum. Screened at Tampere Film Festival, Beijing International Short Film Festival, Film Hafizasi and Cineclub Mar de Lava.

Documentation by Lappeenranta Art Museum