Mindfullmess / Čuječa zmešnja
Niina Suominen (Force Majeure Films)
2026, Finland, 5’50’’
A camera-less animation created directly onto 16mm film, worked on a light table and in the darkroom. The work explores the sensory experience of a neurodivergent mind. Thoughts appear, collide, override one another, and slip away before they can be grasped. Intense cognitive processes are inseparable from a state of bodily excitation, surrender, and immersion.
Animacija brez kamere, ustvarjena neposredno na 16-milimetrski filmski trak ter obdelana na svetlobni mizi in v temnici. Delo raziskuje senzorično izkušnjo nevrodivergentnega uma. Misli se pojavljajo, trkajo, izpodrivajo ena drugo in se izmuznejo, še preden jih je moč ujeti. Intenzivni kognitivni procesi so neločljivo povezani s stanjem telesne vznemirjenosti, prepuščanja in potopljenosti.
Language: None
Technique: Engraving on film, Camera-less animation made on 16mm film by scratching, painting, exposing and in other ways manipulating the film material
Recommened for children under 14 years old: Yes
Team
Script: Niina Suominen
Animation: Niina Suominen
Music: Lau Nau.
Production: Force Majeure Films (www.niinasuominen.com/en/forcemajeurefilms)
Distribution: Anima Polaris
Niina Suominen
is a visual artist and filmmaker working with experimental moving image through animation techniques and analogue processes. She has been creating audiovisual works in the form of short films for more than twenty years. Suominen’s works explore the surrealism of late modern society and the contradictions within human realities. Her aesthetic thinking is rooted in the qualities of existing objects and materials, while her artistic practice is based on experimentation, improvisation, and new ways of processing materials. Suominen’s work is situated within the margins of independent art, experimental cinema, and underground practices. She lives and works in Merimasku, in the archipelago of Southwest Finland.
Find more: www.niinasuominen.com, www.instagram.com/niina.forcemajeurefilms