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Where Is Where? 2009. Finland. Written and directed by Eija-Liisa Ahtila
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Thursday Oct 1, 2009 (5pm)
Friday Oct 2, 2009 (5pm)
Saturday Oct 3, 2009 (4pm)
Sunday Oct 4, 2009 (1pm)
Monday Oct 5, 2009 (4pm)
Wednesday Oct 7, 2009 (4pm)
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Free with museum admission. Film-only tickets: adults $10; seniors $8; members and children under 16 are free; member friends $5. Please visit website for more details.
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Eija-Liisa Ahtila (b. Finland, 1959), an artist celebrated for her often interrelated moving image installation pieces and 35mm films, returns to MoMA with the New York premiere of her film Where Is Where?, a haunting and layered consideration of how history affects our perception of reality. Fifty years ago, during the Algerian war, two young Arab boys killed their French friend. In the present day, a European poet (played by the sublime Kati Outinen, known for her appearances in the films of Aki Kaurismäki) seeks to understand and interpret this event with the aid of the character Death. With her fluid, highly original use of multiframe images Ahtila expands, beautifully and arrestingly, the expressive power of cinema.
Where is Where? 2009. Finland. Written and directed by Eija-Liisa Ahtila. With Kati Outinen. Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, and Crystal Eye, Helsinki. 60 min.
