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Friday 9.3.2001
A Dream of the Film Festival:
"Record Audience Watching Old Mickey Mouse Films"
Old Disney films, record audience of over 500,000 and secured finances. The dream festival for programme designer Raimo Silius and Tampere would be comprised of these, if you freely interpret Silius's thorough answer to the question of the programme designer's dreams.
Programme designer Raimo Silius
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Raimo Silius begins his answer with unrealised dreams and the listener cannot say if that is a sign of pessimism or optimism. It might be a tie, since there are as many realised dreams as there are unrealised ones.
One realised dream is this: the festival at Tampere has delighted the short film fans for over thirty years.
The Top Czech Gave a Spark to the Maestro
As the first dream to come true, Silius mentions getting the production of the Czech doll film maestro, Jan Svankmeier, to Tampere in 1986.
"Later I heard that the series made a lasting impression on a young schoolgirl named Katarina Lillqvist. Right now she is the most well-known short film maker and can call herself the maestro of doll animation."
The Hundred Years-series are also dreams that have come true for the programme designer: The Hundred Years of Film, The Hundred Years of Count Dracula, and The Hundred Years of Sergei Eisenstein. These are only a few examples of many different series celebrating some hundred-year landmark.
As successes, Raimo Silius mentions Edgar Allan Poe's Short Film screenings from the 1999 Film Festival and the Winnie the Pooh in East and West films from 2000. The Bach theme was also a success, even though it didn't attract quite as much audience as was hoped for.
One devout wish was nearly fulfilled this year. The absolute favourite film of Silius is Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. The restored version of the film will be screened in Berlin, and the Tampere festival hoped to screen the film here as well.
Maybe Tampere will get the film next year, even though it will be 2002. Or the next - or will new dreams be fulfilled then?
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