Festival News 2007 - Web Magazine of the 37th Tampere Film Festival

Thursday 8 March 2007

Jonas Mekas Emmi Marttisen kuvaamana.

Jonas Mekas enjoys Tampere Film Festival.

Jonas Mekas is on a life-long filming frenzy

The godfather of US avant-garde film has filmed his life, his friends, family and New York ever since 1949 - and he's not planning to quit any time soon.

Jörn Donner, Passing the unpleasant gatekeepers

"I've always made my career choices regardless of what others thought or wanted me to do."

Mikko Keinonen and Minna Rajamäki.


Death to Format Pop and Boring Music Videos


At times, it feels that mainstream has become a self-feeding monster, which intends to have everything sound the same. The process of standardisation can be seen clearly in music videos. Radio play and hit format encourage short songs, which are the ones that get made into videos. Mikko Keinonen enters the Film Festival competition with his music videos.






Updated 08 March 2007 13:58

Festival News 2007
Thursday 8th March