Maija Blåfield
Maija Blåfield is a Finnish filmmaker and artist born in 1973 in Helsinki. Her works have a creative documentary perspective, shaped by a strong narrative and endowed with a subtle humor. Her work is situated between experimental film and documentary. She also likes to use photography, writing and collective processes. She received the State Prize for Media Arts in 2014 (Finland) and was nominated for the Prix Ars Fennica in 2017. Her short film On Destruction and Preservation won the Ken Burns Award for Best Film at the 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival in 2019.
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The Fantastic
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_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 foreign fiction films.
The Fantastic
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_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 foreign fiction films.
