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Aalto
Synopsis
Architect, urban planner, and furniture designer Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) is considered the “father of modernism” in Finland. Beginning in the mid-1920s, he and his first wife Aino (1894-1949), and later second wife Elissa (1922-1994), exerted a lasting effect on the concept of design. Influenced equally by Bauhaus and classic Italian architecture, and travelling in the same circles as avant-gardists such as Le Corbusier and László Moholy-Nagy, they set new standards in many design fields. They were as likely to design a patient-friendly sanatorium building as the Paimio chair, made of wood and leather, which became an export favourite alongside the Aalto vase with its signature wavy form, an allusion to its creator’s name (aalto = wave). With pictures and testimony from international experts, this documentary examines the life and work of the man and his wives, whose revolutionary designs influence the field even today, far beyond the borders of Finland.Cast & Crew
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Director: Virpi SuutariWriter: Virpi Suutari, Jussi Rautaniemi
Camera: Heikki Färm, Jani Kumpulainen
Cast: David N. Fixler, Juhani Pallasmaa, Nina Stritzler-Levine, Antonello Alici, Harry Charrington, Peter Reed, Harmon Goldstone, Gail Fenske, Renja Suominen-Kokkonen, Johanna Alanen
Production: Timo Vierimaa, Euphoria Film
World Sales: Autlook Filmsales
Distributor: Edition Salzgeber
Biography
Virpi Suutari, born in 1967, studied communications in Tampere and photography in Helsinki. She made several shorts and feature films co-directed by Susanne Helke. Their documentary “The Idle Ones” (2001) won a Jussi Finnish film award. Her first solo long documentary, “Auf Wiedersehen Finnland” (NFL 2010) was followed by “Eleganssi” (2016), a mockumentary about hunting that won an award at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival.
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