Country: Finland
Year: 2000
Duration: 17
Routemaster is a rhytmic mosaic about speed. It is a montage of racing
car speed, a merging of the subject with the film material, and it is also about
the use of human cadavers in crash tests. Routemaster's soundtrack uses
computer manipulated electronic-violin sounds, a rhytmic pulse and noise loops
to convey a sense of ever-faster motion and speed. Routemaster is a film
that resembles a physical experience. In the end, all that is left is the
black-and-white flash of speed, gyrating pulse of the mosaic, the details of the
human bodies and the intense soundtrack.
Biography
film director
Ilppo Pohjola
Ilppo Pohjola works as film-maker in Helsinki. He has studied at the Center of Advanced Film and Television Studies of the American Film Institute, Los Angeles and at the Media Arts Department of Sheridan College, Toronto. He graduated from the Faculty of Art, Design and Film of Harrow College of Higher Education, London, in 1988.
Cast
& Credits
Regia/Director: Ilppo Pohjola
Montaggio/Film editor: Heikki Salo
Suono/Sound: Jim McKee
Montaggio/Film editor: Heikki Salo
Suono/Sound: Jim McKee