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Janne Tanskanen

Savage Beauty – The World’s Greatest Light Installation (Savage Beauty – Maailman suurin valoteos)

Finland 2024
57 min • Finnish, English. Finnish and English subtitles.
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Theme: Must see
16.11.2024 | Time 18:00 | Venue: Tapio 3 | BUY TICKET

Shine a light

Savage Beauty follows Finnish light artist Kari Kola building the biggest ever made light installation in Connemara, Ireland. The city of Galway has commissioned a work from Kola as part of the European Capital of Culture 2020 program. The installation is supposed to be ”something big” and Kari decides to light up a whole mountain. The art piece is named Savage Beauty, an expression by Oscar Wilde portraying the Connemara region.

Kola has always been the underdog. He has always been hyperactive and mathematically talented, which led to problems in school. Because of his extraordinary personality, other people have a hard time trying to follow his ideas and take him seriously. But luckily – Kola lives in his own world where nothing is impossible.  

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Joining us at the screening, light artist Kari Kola and director Janne Tanskanen will talk about the making of the documentary and answer audience questions.

 

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