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Experimental sci-fi animation | 2008 |
Digibeta | 16:9 | Stereo | 18’
Director, script, animation: Eila Hutri
Cinematography: Lasse Naukkarinen
Editing, sound design, music,
visual effects: Dile Kolanen
Graphics: Ilkka Rosma
Producer: Lasse Naukkarinen
Production company:
Ilokuva, Naukkarinen & Co
Production support:
AVEK, The Finnish Film Foundation
Financing TV company: YLE
=X
=X is a sci-fi film about recycling and a futuristic research centre
It is the year 2038. The world came to an end of sorts in 2012. All political, economical, and
social structures have collapsed due to a catastrophic natural disaster. Power has been redistributed
in the cruellest way possible.
There is a secret space research centre on a far-away upland area behind the Himalayas. It
has now gained a surprising position that can benefit the whole of the remaining world.
The difficult task of saving the remaining world falls on this re-arranged complex. Nuclear
disasters, physical and psychological damage to people, and increasingly stranger natural phenomena
are now commonplace challenges for the venerable institution.
An experimental film, =X offers random glimpses of life at this institution. It tells a story
about hope, conflicts, and disobedience. It portrays people whose tenacity and thirst for life help
them heal in the midst of all the horrors.
Eila Hutri
Eila Hutri is one of the oldest and most experienced animators
in Finland. She was the first director from a non-socialist
country to produce a film at the animation department of
Tallinnfilm in Estonia at the turn of the 1990s, Cod Liver Oil
(Kalanmaksaöljyä, 1990). Hutri is also known for her experimental
animated films, including the rock animation Man’s Life
(Miehen elämää, 1987) and the jazz film Made in Burbot (Made in
Made, 1988). Since the 1990s, Hutri has also made animations
for various TV series, short films, and documentary films.
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