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Noora is a dance short film that follows Noora’s movement. She is a dancer. Her body’s impulses are generated in the moment from contact with different environments. Noora has congenital bone fragility, Osteogenesis Imperfecta. She uses a wheelchair as a dancing aid and in it, she can move widely, but feels isolated from the surrounding environment. She is searching ways to move, focusing on possibilities rather than on limitations. On the ground, she feels the ground against her skin. In the water she can let go of her wheelchair. Noora’s toes sink into the mud bottom, which pulsates with her steps. The water supports her fragile body with its pressure and surrounded by it she dares to move more freely, her body is more elastic, her expressions and range of motion are greater.
Anna Kekkonen is a Finnish filmmaker. She graduated with a Master of Arts degree in Audiovisual Media Culture from University of Lapland, Finland. Beside film making, she is a passionate diver and underwater cinematographer, which has taken her around the world for 17 years. The themes of her films are strongly inspired by her own physical sensations underwater. She approaches her films through physicality, movement, senses and diversity. What emerges when we are surrounded by such an element that forces us to sense beyond what we consider normal. Along with filming her own films her biggest filming jobs were two fulldome nature documentaries “Baltic Sea” and “The Embrace of the Ocean”. Her debut film, a short documentary Surface and alongside short dance film Noora got their premiere in late 2023.
With the financial support of National Culture Fund.
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