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Jussi Eerola

Grasshopper

Film expérimental | 4k | couleur | 9:0 | Finlande | 2023

During the darkest hours of the night a small disco light appears and shines lights to empty business premises. A minimalistic musical.

Jussi Eerola has worked as a cinematographer on many internationally awarded films since 1992. His directional debut was a documentary about electro-hypersensitive people titled Refugees of Technocracy (2009). The Return of the Atom directed together with Mika Taanila premiered at TIFF 2015 and won the NORDIC:DOX Award at CPH:DOX in 2015. Eerola’s first minimalistic short film Blue Honda Civic premiered at IFFR in 2020 and continued to many international festivals receiving three awards. Eerola is a founding member of the production company Testifilmi Oy started 2014 together with Mika Taanila and visual artist duo IC-98 (Patrik Söderlund and Visa Suonpää). Testifilmi emphasizes the vast potential of cinematic possibilities over standard formats and storytelling.