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Perjantaina 8.5.09 klo 9.30-18.00 Tutkijakollegium järjestää seminaarin Disjointed

Visions: The Cinema of Aki Kaurismäki (Päärakennus, sali 13). Puhujina ovat Thomas

Elsaesser (Amsterdamin yliopisto), Peter Schepelern (Kööpenhaminan yliopisto), Seppo

Knuuttila (Joensuun yliopisto), Satu Kyösola (TAIK), Erkki Pekkilä (Helsingin yliopisto).

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Sponsorit: Tutkijakollegium; Tieteellisten seurain valtuuskunta; Suomen kielen ja

kotimaisen kirjallisuuden laitos; Taiteiden tutkimuksen laitos.



Paikka: Helsingin yliopiston päärakennus, sali 13 (Fabianinkatu 33). Vapaa pääsy.







Disjointed Visions: The Cinema of Aki Kaurismäki



Friday May 8, 2009

University of Helsinki

All Presentations to be held in Main Building, Room 13 (Päärakennus, sali 13)





Critics writing on Aki Kaurismäki’s cinema have come to a consensus about his status as a

national auteur. Scholars have debated the films’ cinematic treatment of nostalgia and

melancholy, the parameters of national cinema and European cinema in the face of film

culture’s globalization, as well as Kaurismäki’s films’ status with respect to postmodern

aesthetics and culture. The title of the symposium refers to the ironic and contradictory

character of Kaurismäki’s films, but also to the multiple perspectives possible in

approaches to Kaurismäki’s cinema. The symposium brings together a diverse group of

scholars to challenge the categories of debate, invigorate critical and scholarly

discussion of it, and to broaden conceptions Kaurismäki’s work. Thomas Elsaesser and

Peter Schepelern will provide European views while a crossdiciplinary group of Finnish

scholars will provide fresh perspectives from the Finnish cultural context.





9.30

Opening Remarks



9.40

Music in the Films of Aki Kaurismäki, Erkki Pekkilä (Univ. of Helsinki)

Commentator: Susanna Välimäki (Univ. of Helsinki)



10.45

Coffee



11.15

Plenary 1

Hitting Bottom: Kauriskmäki's Abject Subjects, Thomas Elsaesser (Univ. of Amsterdam)

Commentator: Henry Bacon (Univ. of Helsinki)



12.45

Lunch



14.00

The Children of Saturn: The Dynamics of Melancholy in Aki Kaurismäki's Films, Satu

Kyösola (University of Art and Design, Helsinki)

Commentator: Sara Heinämaa (Univ. of Helsinki)



15.00

How Differences Make Finnishness: Ironic Nostalgia in Kaurismäki's Films Seppo Knuuttila

(Univ. of Joensuu)

Commentator: Jyrki Nummi (Univ. of Helsinki)



16.00

Coffee



16.30

Plenary 2: The Element of Crime and Punishment: Aki Kaurismäki as Nordic Auteur Peter

Schepelern (Univ. of Copenhagen)

Commentator: Susanna Paasonen (Univ. of Helsinki)



17.45

Closing Remarks



Järjestäjät: Andrew Nestingen (Tutkijakollegium), Henry Bacon (Taiteiden tutkimuksen

laitos), Jyrki Nummi (Suomen kielen ja kotimaisen kirjallisuuden laitos).