The 10-channel video installation Those Who Kept the Light by Nastja Säde Rönkkö can be seen on the 2nd floor of the Filmhaus Köln until Sunday.

Poems entwine images: seaweed pledges of love, longing for rocky landscapes, mermaid mourning and recurring maritime facets of light. Video works by Nastja Säde Rönkkö become stanzas that attempt to capture the magic that surrounds the coasts of the sea. The lighthouse and its keepers, previously associated with masculinity, are transformed into queer-feminist spaces on the edge of a vulnerable ecosystem. Humans and landscape are closer here than we realise. The artist tries to sharpen her own perception of her environment and to find a language for a time in which losses no longer only have individual effects.

The installation of ten film experiences attempts to think of images as stanzas of a poem by playing with sensory perceptions. Projections become unfolding fragments in the exhibition space. Questions about the form of cinema thus become questions about our perception of the world.

Nastja Säde Rönkkö is a video, performance, installation and text artist. In her work, she explores the relationship between the digital age, power balances and humanity in relation to the future of the earth. Love or slowness can become a quiet activism of great influence in this process. The poetics of emotions are a recurring theme in her work. Her work has been shown in North America, Spain, Italy and England, and film festivals such as the Tampere Short Film Festival, the Lago Film Festival and the NYC Indie Awards have also presented her films.

Free admission.

Opening hours:
Tue 2:00 – 5:00 pm
Wed 12:00 – 7:00 pm
Thu 12:00 – 7:00 pm
Fri 10:00 am – 7:00 pm
Sat 10:00 am – 7:00 pm
Sun 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

An artist talk with Nastja Säde Rönkkö will take place on Sunday from 4:00 pm.

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