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Impivaara – A New World

Impivaara – A New World

Patrik Söderlund 2024 26 min Finland

Kinoteka Zlatna Vrata September 14, 2025 19:15

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Impivaara – A New World – Patrik Söderlund

Brothers escape to the virgin forests of Impivaara to create a new world. An experimental imagining of Finnish national author Aleksis Kivi’s novel Seven Brothers (1870) for the 21st Century, focusing on the energetic basis of a Northern welfare state and a possible future emerging from the climate crisis.

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Patrik Söderlund

Writer and Director Patrik Söderlund is the founding member of artist duo IC-98.
With backgrounds in visual arts and cultural studies, Söderlund’s and Visa Suonpää’s 25-year collaboration as IC-98 has produced artist publications, site and context specific projects and interventions, animated moving image installations and various public commissions. IC-98 received the Finnish State Art Prize in 2009 and represented Finland at the Venice Biennale in 2015 with Abendland (Hours, Years, Aeons), which was picked by Sundance Film Festival in 2016. Their work has been shown extensively at museums, biennials and festivals in Europe, Asia and the Americas.