Project Detail

On the Tenderness of Men

Synopsis

A work of speculative cinematic writing, the film is about war and displacement, architecture and place-making. It tells the fragmented biography of the so-called Rock Church, an iconic building in Helsinki and its architects who were excluded from the canon of Finnish modernism. The architects' personal history of displacement due to the Finnish Winter War of 1939 and Soviet occupation is braided with the war on present-day Gaza.
Past and present histories, temporalities and geographies fold into, and over one another collapsing time, place and identities narratively to consider, in the gentlest of tones, the impact of atrocities on contemporary lifeworlds.

Details

Year
2024
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
21 min
Format
HD
Director
Minou Norouzi
Producer
Minou Norouzi
Composer
Antti Kytömäki, Cameron Randall, Iiro Komulainen

Production Status

Production Company

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