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Documentary | 2008 |
35mm | 1:2,35 | Dolby Digital | ~20’
Director, script, editing: PV Lehtinen
Cinematography: Matti Helariutta
Sound design: Sakari Salli
Music: Tapani Rinne, Verneri Lumi
Producer: PV Lehtinen
Production company: CineParadiso
Production support:
The Finnish Film Foundation, AVEK
Financing TV company:
YLE Co-productions
Hietsu (working title)
A different view of life on the beach. The film is set on the popular beach that is situated under big
power lines. On hot summer days, the beach is filled with hundreds of people who have come to
enjoy the heat and the blazing sun.
PV Lehtinen
PV Lehtinen was born and lives in Helsinki. He graduated as a director from the School of
Motion Picture, Television and Production Design at the University of Art and Design Helsinki.
His previous water-themed films include The Diver (Hyppääjä, 2000) and The Crawl (Krooli, 2004),
which have been awarded at several international festivals.
Lehtinen is equally at home directing fiction, documentaries and
experimental films. In his works he examines the language of films.
Lehtinen feels that the final form of a film is dictated by its subject
matter and filming process. He leaves the categorizing of his films to
others. A recurrent theme in his films, water is an element that
Lehtinen finds extremely interesting visually. “Nothing compares to
the peaceful feeling when in or under water. Water is like another
world, and films allow me to bring parts of the feeling it arouses on
to the screen,” says PV Lehtinen.
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