Hanna Kaihlanen

Hanna Kaihlanen’s vision discovers a fantastic dimension that intersects with the real within the bleak Nordic landscape of Finland, and her expressive editing often loses track of the distinction between the two. The film is inspired by ecological issues and questions humanity’s claims to control and overcome nature: the director follows the chaotic logic of wildlife, like the film’s subject who tracks wild elk.

A Finnish equivalent of Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man, Hannu has a love and connection to nature that surpasses most. It is the rare lynx in particular that has bitten into Hannu’s heart – so much so that he actually claims to be able to speak its language. So when a dead lynx turns up in his forest, he dons an animal mask, crawls down on all fours and sniffs out the mystery through the mire and thicket. With hauntingly beautiful footage captured by hidden cameras throughout the forest, ‘Lynx Man’ paints a colourful and vivid twilight picture of the natural world around us – and of man’s impact on it. For no matter what Hannu does to live in harmony with the animals, he cannot hide from belonging himself to the species that is the lynx’s worst enemy. It makes sense that most of Juha Suonpää’s atmospheric film takes place in the twilight between dream and reality. Here, the vast forests come alive in Hannu’s hypnotic Night Vision footage of the nocturnal life of the lynx.

Big events in our lives and on the planet often start with something small. The author therefore puts different species of mosquitoes and her own childhood under the microscope. Scientific facts about the tiny bloodsucking creatures are mixed with personal memories in a ghostly narrative. To understand the past and prepare for the future, both require equal attention.

Your parents bought a video camera. You were born. 1990–2004 all mixed up.

Hanna Kaihlanen’s vision discovers a fantastic dimension that intersects with the real within the bleak Nordic landscape of Finland, and her expressive editing often loses track of the distinction between the two. The film is inspired by ecological issues and questions humanity’s claims to control and overcome nature: the director follows the chaotic logic of wildlife, like the film’s subject who tracks wild elk.

A Finnish equivalent of Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man, Hannu has a love and connection to nature that surpasses most. It is the rare lynx in particular that has bitten into Hannu’s heart – so much so that he actually claims to be able to speak its language. So when a dead lynx turns up in his forest, he dons an animal mask, crawls down on all fours and sniffs out the mystery through the mire and thicket. With hauntingly beautiful footage captured by hidden cameras throughout the forest, ‘Lynx Man’ paints a colourful and vivid twilight picture of the natural world around us – and of man’s impact on it. For no matter what Hannu does to live in harmony with the animals, he cannot hide from belonging himself to the species that is the lynx’s worst enemy. It makes sense that most of Juha Suonpää’s atmospheric film takes place in the twilight between dream and reality. Here, the vast forests come alive in Hannu’s hypnotic Night Vision footage of the nocturnal life of the lynx.

Big events in our lives and on the planet often start with something small. The author therefore puts different species of mosquitoes and her own childhood under the microscope. Scientific facts about the tiny bloodsucking creatures are mixed with personal memories in a ghostly narrative. To understand the past and prepare for the future, both require equal attention.

Big events in our lives and on the planet often start with something small. The author therefore puts different species of mosquitoes and her own childhood under the microscope. Scientific facts about the tiny bloodsucking creatures are mixed with personal memories in a ghostly narrative. To understand the past and prepare for the future, both require equal attention.

Big events in our lives and on the planet often start with something small. The author therefore puts different species of mosquitoes and her own childhood under the microscope. Scientific facts about the tiny bloodsucking creatures are mixed with personal memories in a ghostly narrative. To understand the past and prepare for the future, both require equal attention.

Your parents bought a video camera. You were born. 1990–2004 all mixed up.