Infatuation with the Never Ending Past

Kristoffer Ala-Ketola – Infatuation with the Never Ending Past (2022)

Infatuation with the Never Ending Past is constructed from hundreds of scenes and shots which together create a sequence of association, an absurd narrative, and a proposition for an edited history.

Ala-Ketola combines vignettes of his personal life with constructed studio imagery to portray a queer journey which juxtaposes the personal and shared, symbolist and documentative, directed and intuitive, archived and edited. Ala-Ketola meditates on the roles of being a director, editor, performer, viewer, subject and object simultaneously by examining his diaristic video clips, recounting them into a fantasy of a past.

The video references friendship, joy, community, partying, nature, animals, bugs, and the memories people save in their devices in order to evoke recognizable spaces of human connection, shared consciousness, and being alive.

Forum Box

6.-29.10.2023

Tue-Sun 12.00–17.00

Free entry