Dolat music video in Video Art Festival Turku (VAFT)

The music video for Ánnámáret’s song Dolat (Flames) directed by media artist Marja Viitahuhta is selected to the official program of the Video Art Festival Turku (VAFT). The festival is held this year from 19th to 22nd of May around Turku city. VAFT is video art festival that brings exiting and fresh international video art to Finland. Ánnámáret together with director Marja Viitahuhta are really exited of being part of this years VAFT programme. Marja Viitahuhta will be also representing the whole Ánnámáret team at the festival.

The yoik Dolat by Ánnámáret deals with the cyclic understanding of time. The twirling and dancing of the fire embers takes one’s spirit to the world of one’s ancestors, where their flames await for us, teaching us our part in the continuum of generations. Fire is at the root of human culture, as a tool and as a place for social gatherings and storytelling. The yoik and the visual material of the video are based on it’s symbolism and power. However, the video simultaneously, with its digital effects, refers to and is aware of its own media, acknowledging on the one hand internet fireplace videos and on the other the scratched films and avantgarde of early experimental cinema.

More information of the festival here: https://www.videoartfestivalturku.com