Giant
HD video
stereo sound
12 min 9 sec
(2013-2014)
Synopsis
Giant features leading junior team gymnasts of Romania. The film is shot in two boarding schools for artistic gymnastics in Onesti and Deva. A soundtrack of interviews with the gymnasts accompanies images of them training and of empty gymnasiums. Archive film footage starting from 1970s and clips from a feature fiction film shot in the same locations reveal not only a continuity in picturing this sport but also the structures of recording it.
Credits
written and directed by
SALLA TYKKÄ
cinematographer
SAMULI SAASTAMOINEN
supervising sound designer
JANNE JANKERI
editor
SALLA TYKKÄ
camera assistant
MIKKO LEVOSKA
sound designers
JOHANNES ELO
KIMMO VÄNTTINEN
production services
42 KM FILM
executive producer
MARCELA URSU
production co-ordinator
DENISA POPA
sound services
RAZA STUDIO
sound engineer
SEBASTIAN ZSEMLYE
lighting & grip equipment
ECHIPA de VIS PRODUCTION
gaffer
IONEL IANCAU
grip
FLORIN IANCAU
online editing
JUHO RÄSÄNEN / POST CONTROL
colour timing
TIMO LUOMANEN / POST CONTROL
music
Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion
Investigation Theme
Composed by Ennio Morricone
Performed by Paolo Tornelleri Orchestra
thanks to
The coaches and the gymnasts of the gymnastics training centers in Deva and Onesti
Romanian Gymnastics Federation / Anca Grigoras, Adrian Stoica
Cetate Deva National Sports College / Adrian Liga
Deva Municipal Sports Club / Mugurel Ciusca
Onesti Municipal Sports Club / Ingrid Istrate
TVR Archives
Gabriel Balaci
Elisabeta Bostan
Laurence Sillars
Venla Hellsted
Hanna Timonen
Markus
This film used images from the feature film Campioana (1990) directed by Elisabeta Bostan, produced by România Film, Romania & Les Productions La Fête, Canada
financed with
AVEK / ELENA NÄSÄNEN
Commissioned by BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, 2013
special thanks to
ARTS PROMOTION CENTRE FINLAND
FINNISH CULTURAL FOUNDATION
OSKAR ÖFLUND STIFTELSE
WONDER BOX
producer
MISHA JAARI
copyright
FIVE YEARS PRODUCTION LTD 2014