Country: Finland
Year: 2009
Duration: 19'
little snow animal A hybrid composed of archival images, animation and fiction becomes a visionary answer to a few existential questions. A girl is alone at home, she stares at the objects around her and then at nothing; she smokes, goes out, goes to a disco but doesn’t dance, walks in the snow, crouches down beneath the shower, hangs out the laundry to dry in the wintery cold. In the meantime, in black and white, the voice of a girl who has a problem with sex and love phones in to a radio program in search of comfort and help. “Little Snow Animal came to this world inspired by young girls, 13-year-olds, posing in the internet in some kind of half nude self portraits. Why do they do this? Why do we do this? Why do we give ourselves to be taken advantage in the desperate search for love? This film is a little poem about that search.”
Biography
film director
Miia Tervo
Miia Tervo (Finland, 1980) was born in a small village in the north of Finnish Lapland. She studied filmmaking at the National Film School of Finland, as well as poetry and art, and has now dedicated herself to making shorts.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Hylje (The Seal, cm, doc., 2005), Lumikko (Little Snow Animal, cm, doc., anim., 2009).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Miia Tervo
fotografia/cinematography
Päivi Kettunen
montaggio/film editing
Okku Nuutilainen
animatore/animator
Ami Lindholm
suono/sound
Jussi Rantala
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Maarit Kestilä (la ragazza/Girl)
produttore/producer
Mahsa Malka
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales
Aalto University School of Art and Design
