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The Blue Mammy

Sininen Imettäjä

With understated precision, Markku Lehmuskallio’s The Blue Mammy focuses on the sensitive interplay between sound and image while unfurling a story surrounding Joel, a deaf painter who lives in a small village in Lapland. While he has trouble fitting in with the community of people around him, Joel communes with nature and speaks nonverbally with a spirit. The film distils a wealth of provocative ideas—around artistic creation, alternative forms of communication and the importance of the natural world to human animals—into a stunning filmic tone poem.

Director

Markku Lehmuskallio

Countries

Finland Sweden

Year

1985

Premiere

New Film Restoration

Dialogue Language

Finnish

Subtitle Language

English

Primary Contact

Jenni Domingo

Distribution (Worldwide)

Jenni Domingo