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1 plus 1 plus 1 – sympathy for the Decay

2012
60 min
2K DCP / 1:1,85 / Audio 5.1

1 Plus 1 Plus 1 – Sympathy for the Decay is an abstract expressionist film in three episodes about the consequences of moral choices. Using three different documentary formats, it explores the disappearance of man-made materials into nature, pollution-related changes in micro-organisms, and tests performed on human cadavers. Each autonomous episode has its own distinct theme and form, yet together they built up into one conceptual, contextual, cinematic unity.

1 Plus 1 Plus 1 – Sympathy for the Decay explores the manipulation of reality-based content and documentary material by adapting the conventions of experimental film and repetition in minimalist music to stretch the limits of narrativity and representation.

1 Plus 1 Plus 1 – Sympathy for the Decay is an audio-visual vanitas –the mother of all Gesamtkunstwerks.
 

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Making of 1+1+1

Animated, written & directed by
ILPPO POHJOLA
Rostrum cinematography
SEPPO RINTASALO + ANTTI RUUSUVUORI
Interview cinematography
ARTO KAIVANTO
Film editing HEIKKI KOTSALO
Sound design JIM MCKEE
Add.sound design PEKKA LAPPI
Negative scanning + color grading
PASI MÄKELÄ
Re-recording mixer PETER NORDSTRÖM
DCP TOMMI GRÖHN
Music by ELLIOTT SHARP
Add.music WIESLAW POGORZELSKI & LAURIE AMAT
NOTE – Hand painting for the film
created partly at PHIL HOFFMAN’s
Finnish Film Farm
Production support ARTS COUNCIL OF FINLAND, AVEK, CITY OF HELSINKI, FINNISH CULTURAL FUND, FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION, HELANDER FOUNDATION, KORDELIN FOUNDATION
In co-operation with YLE/TV1
Producer ILPPO POHJOLA / CRYSTAL EYE