Players
Pilvi Takala
Jaakko talks about himself and his friends Ville, Mathias, Hans, Nick and Henrik. They are a clique of online-poker professionals and live in a hotel in Bangkok. The six of them spend much of their spare time together, and their social rules follow the logic of gambling: they let chance decide who pays for meals and who will get the next coffee. In this way they make sure that they treat each other fairly and that no-one is at a disadvantage. The real poker players are not shown in the film, Pilvi Takala plays the scenes described by Jaakko herself.
Pilvi Takala
Pilvi Takala (born in 1981) lives and works between Berlin and Helsinki. Her video works are based on performative interventions in which she shows that it is often possible to learn about the implicit rules of a social situation only by its disruption. Her work has been shown in MoMA PS1 and New Museum, Kiasma, Palais de Tokyo, Manifesta 11, and the 9th Istanbul Biennial. Takala won the Dutch Prix de Rome in 2011 and the Emdash Award and Finnish State Prize for Visual Arts in 2013.
Films by Pilvi Takala (Selection)
The Stroker 2019 | Drive with Care 2014 | The Committee 2014 | Broad Sense 2012 | Players 2010 | The Angels 2008 | The Announcer 2007 | Easy Rider 2006
