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Eikka: luotolainen, hailuotolainen, manterelainen
a 29 minute documentary film by Kyd Campbell
Hailuoto is an island of 200.53 square kilometers with a current permanent population of 989 residents. The islet is growing out of the sea, at a continuous rapid rate of 1cm per year, due to post-glacial rebound. Hailuoto resident Eino Merilä, died on the island in December 2011 and I, a visual artist and curator from Canada, living in Germany, was invited by Hai-Art, the local arts organization, to create a film about him and a large collection that he kept on his property. Memories and images were recorded on the Finnish islet at the beginning of December 2012, addressing issues of preservation, environmental activism, communication and community in the Bothnian Bay. It is about the distance between an island and a mainland.
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Kyd Campbell was born in Montreal in 1979. She first studied textile and fashion design followed by sculpture and experimental video at Concordia University. In 2004, she founded Frontierlab, a nomadic research and production platform for art and design and the Tiny Noise project for presenting experimental sound art. She is an artist, curator, educator and cultural manager, and has worked in different contexts across Europe, Africa and the Americas. She is currently completing her MFA in the Faculty of Media at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. Her creative practice is influenced by observations of reoccurrence, a critical view on media practices and an intuitive view on history, community and environmental politics through an aesthetic of small, poetic details. She is based between Berlin(DE) and Cusco(PE) and is currently working on a series of short experimental documentaries.
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Artistic direction, Camera, audio and editing by Kyd Campbell
Sound by Antye Greie-Ripatti (AGF)
Project Management and research by Nella Nikkilä
Translation by Johanna Koskinen & Tiina Prittinen
Research assistance by Tuomas Merilä & Kari Blomster at Hailuoto Public Library
Project mentorship by Junior Professor Jakob Hüfner, Bauhaus University, and Cinematographer Alexander Du Prel
commissioned by Hai Art in Hailuoto. 2013
supported by the Media Faculty, Bauhaus University, Weimar
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