{"id":30956,"date":"2026-05-22T09:15:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/?post_type=movies&#038;p=30956"},"modified":"2026-05-22T18:48:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:48:33","slug":"minirusetti-night-school-of-experimental-cinema","status":"publish","type":"movies","link":"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/en\/movies\/minirusetti-night-school-of-experimental-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"Minirusetti \u2013 Night School of Experimental Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anneli Nygren\u2019s rarely seen <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Minirusetti<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is this year\u2019s Night School\u2019s signature film and an uncanny brain-knot. The artist\u2019s early-period soft-but-hard brutalism is a dark parody of participatory children\u2019s television. Not for the faint-hearted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Whole Shebang<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> presents the harsh circus entertainments of Depression-era New York, where human life is worth nothing. The work is among the late-career gems of Ken Jacobs, who grew up in Brooklyn\u2019s poor neighborhoods. Co-creator is his wife Flo, as so often before. The couple\u2019s daughter Nisi handled the computer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What does sailing feel like when you cannot see? Giulia Grossmann\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mer int\u00e9rieure<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> attempts to depict the experience through cinematic means. M\u00e9ryll Ampe\u2019s soundtrack combines intoxicating sea sounds with minimalist music. In Chiara Caterina\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Objet d\u2019enigme<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, meanwhile, the dramaturgical objects of cinema \u2013 keys, doors, rooms \u2013 spin in emptiness, cut loose from context as structural clues in a Gordian knot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aya Kawazoe\u2019s \u5e7d\u660e\u306e\u866b (\u201cInterface\u201d) is the first Japanese film in the history of Night School. A nasty insect burrows into the protagonist\u2019s head \u2013 reality or fantasy? \u2013 and begins to torment them. A new and unlikely equation spills onto the screen: an intense fresco of psychological horror and experimental subjective cinema. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Datna \u00c9clat<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, created in collaboration between Tina Frank and the duo General Magic, is instead a synthesis of typography and modern electronic music. The French word <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00e9clat<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> carries multiple meanings, including glow, scandal, magnificence, and bright explosion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Falling autumn leaves are often a metaphor in art for the beginning of the end. In Paulo Abreu\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Autumn Leaves<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the resurrection of leaves and trees sees the filmstrip defy gravity in the spirit of paternoster elevators. The screening concludes with Johann Lurf\u2019s brand-new work <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forever\u2026Forever<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Berlinale 2026). A fixed 65mm film camera not only records the events at the Ottenstein reservoir continuously over 22 months, but becomes an event in itself. The director\u2019s Viennese colleague Martin Reinhart has described the film as \u201ca planetary clock whose hands are made of light: it has a calm and precise choreography that recalls utopian architectures, even Tatlin\u2019s Tower, without ever directly mentioning them.\u201d Yet the true dynamo of this cosmological clockwork is the film\u2019s sound: Jung An Tagen\u2019s otherworldly beautiful composition, attuned to the movements of celestial bodies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lurf appeared as a guest director in Sodankyl\u00e4 2019 when the compilation film \u2605, reaching toward the starry skies of film history, delighted the festival audience. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forever\u2026Forever<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, embracing the ripple of the water\u2019s surface, feels right at home on the banks of the river Kitinen. Sodankyl\u00e4 forever!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mika Taanila<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Screening duration: 78 min<br \/>\nCurated by: Mika Taanila<br \/>\nWith thanks to: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Azazel Jacobs, Gerald Weber, Mariya Nikiforova, Miguel Armas, Avreno Heikka<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The screening is dedicated to Ken (1933\u20132025) and Flo (1941\u20132025) Jacobs.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>FILMS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minirusetti (Finland, 1978)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><b>The Whole Shebang<\/b> (USA, 2019)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><b>Mer int\u00e9rieure<\/b> (France, 2024)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><b>Objet d\u2019enigme<\/b>\u00a0(Italy, Belgium, 2025)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><b>\u5e7d\u660e\u306e\u866b (Interface)\u00a0<\/b> (Japan, 2025)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><b>Datna \u00c9clat<\/b> (Austria, 2025)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><b>Autumn Leaves<\/b> (Portugal, 2025)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><b>Forever\u2026Forever<\/b> (Austria, 2026)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anneli Nygren\u2019s rarely seen Minirusetti is this year\u2019s Night School\u2019s signature film and an uncanny brain-knot. The artist\u2019s early-period soft-but-hard brutalism is a dark parody of participatory children\u2019s television. Not for the faint-hearted. The Whole Shebang presents the harsh circus entertainments of Depression-era New York, where human life is worth nothing. The work is among&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/en\/movies\/minirusetti-night-school-of-experimental-cinema\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"featured_media":30953,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30956","movies","type-movies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","filters-experimental-films","filters-master-classes-and-special-presentations","filters-mika-taanila-en","filters-short-films"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Minirusetti \u2013 Night School of Experimental Cinema &#8212; Midnight Sun Film Festival<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Anneli Nygren\u2019s rarely seen Minirusetti is this year\u2019s Night School\u2019s signature film and an uncanny brain-knot. 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