Directing
Patrik Söderlund
Born
1974-01-01 (52)
Known for
Directing
Credits
3 titles
Writer and director Patrik Söderlund is the founding member of artist duo IC-98. With a background in visual arts and cultural studies, Söderlund’s and Visa Suonpää’s 25-year collaboration as IC-98 has produced artist publications, site and context specific projects and interventions, animated moving image installations and various public commissions. IC-98 received the Finnish State Art Prize in 2009 and represented Finland at the Venice Biennale in 2015 with Abendland (Hours, Years, Aeons), which was picked by Sundance Film Festival in 2016. Their work has been shown extensively at museums, biennials and festivals in Europe, Asia and the Americas.
Known for
6.5Exploring geological epochs and kingdoms of life, Realms voyages through deep time from the primeval ocean to a post-human future. The film employs visual storytelling, seeking to replace the anthropocentric worldview with greater attention to the complex interrelationships and dependencies between organisms, and between animate and inanimate nature.
Realms
2019
NRImpivaara – A New World adapts Finnish national author Aleksis Kivi's novel Seven Brothers (1870) for the 21st Century. The emphasis is on the climate crisis, the energetic basis of our culture and the co-dependencies of human and more-than-human worlds.
Impivaara - A New World
2024
In a twilight world long after the age of Man, a twisted ecosystem centred around an overgrown fruit tree undergoes parasitic and geological transformations as hours, years and aeons pass.
Abendland (Hours, Years, Aeons)
2015
Behind the camera
6.5Exploring geological epochs and kingdoms of life, Realms voyages through deep time from the primeval ocean to a post-human future. The film employs visual storytelling, seeking to replace the anthropocentric worldview with greater attention to the complex interrelationships and dependencies between organisms, and between animate and inanimate nature.
Realms
2019
NRImpivaara – A New World adapts Finnish national author Aleksis Kivi's novel Seven Brothers (1870) for the 21st Century. The emphasis is on the climate crisis, the energetic basis of our culture and the co-dependencies of human and more-than-human worlds.
Impivaara - A New World
2024
In a twilight world long after the age of Man, a twisted ecosystem centred around an overgrown fruit tree undergoes parasitic and geological transformations as hours, years and aeons pass.
Abendland (Hours, Years, Aeons)
2015