Description
Synopsis:
The Fantastic is a film about encountering the unknown and the relationship between imagination and reality. The film is built on interviews with exiled North Koreans, who describe what they imagined the outside world to be like, based on their experiences of watching smuggled western fiction films. Alternating documentary footage and visual effects, the film raises the question of how reality is defined and what we wish to believe in.
About the director:
MaijaBlåfield is an artist and an experimental documentary filmmaker from Helsinki, Finland. Her works often combine documentary and fiction in some way, exploring the fantastic side of our everyday life and digging up the stories from its events. She was granted the State Prize for the Media Arts in 2014 and in 2017, she was a nominee for the Ars Fennica award for contemporary art. Her works have been screened in international and national festivals, television, art museums and exhibitions.
Filmography: Saving the World (2005), When the Heavens Fall…remake (2007), If I Were Buried at a Street Corner (2011), Golden Age (2015), On Destruction and Preservation(2018).