Ralph Hotere
Red on black,
1969screenprint
Andrew Kolb´s Space Oddity children´s book
“Have you ever listened to a song and your mind’s eye is immediately filled with visuals? David Bowie’s classic space epic is one such song for me. Every lyric paints such a vivid picture that I figured ‘Oh hey, I guess I’ll make that into a children’s book!’ Yes, I talk like this. Although I haven’t heard from Mr. Bowie (yet), why wait to share the full book?”
Belaboris: ‘Venus’ (1984)
Finnish cover version of ‘Venus’ (1969) by Shocking Blue.
http://www.discogs.com/Belaboris-Olipa-Kerran/release/1423089
http://teema.yle.fi/ohjelmat/juttuarkisto/tv-arkiston-kino-kesyttomat-veljekset
Risto Jarva: Ruusujen aika (“A Time of Roses”, 1969) - Trailer
A rare example of Finnish science fiction cinema.
“In the year 2012, historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years earlier. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude model, Saara Turunen, and finds a perfect actress to reconstruct her life and death in front of a TV camera. Meanwhile, a strike at a nuclear plant is covered up by the media.” (IMDB)
“The setting is a Finland in which people communicate by view-phone, laze around on not-so-Finnish-modern, inflatable plastic furniture and take their meals from machines that, in friendly, gravelly voices, announce the calorie content of the items ordered.” (Vincent Canby, The New York Times, 1970)
Links:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138764/
http://www.phinnweb.org/links/cinema/ruusujen_aika/
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B03E0D71731EE34BC4851DFB667838B669EDE
Cecil Leuter: ‘Pop Electronique N° 1’ (1969)
http://www.discogs.com/Cecil-Leuter-Pop-Electronique/master/75135
