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Dear friend of Arkadia,

You are invited to the screening of ‘Saunoa’, a documentary film by Anna Recasens on Friday 21.2 at 6pm at Arkadia (Nervanderinkatu 11). It is the world première!

https://vimeo.com/81516597
http://www.annarecasens.com/
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Saunoa: 2013 / 24 min. / No dialogue

Saunoa is an experimental three-part essay of life around the sauna.

Script, cinematography, edition and direction by Anna Recasens.
Sound recording, sound design and music composition by Julius Nevanlinna.

Welcome!

Warm regards,

Ian
www.arkadiabookshop.fi

– Entrance is free but a donation of €3 (or more!) to fund the event is suggested and would be most welcome. If you have no loose change or coins we gladly accept payment via Visa Electron or Mastercard etc. !

Saunoa

This is a three-part documentary set in different places in or around Helsinki where there is a sauna. The film is about Finnish social relationships somewhere in, out or next to a sauna: in the Yrjönkatu swimming-pool, in Arla, a public sauna in Kallio and in an old wooden sauna by a lake. The whole piece is divided in 2 acts and one intermission.
Personally I got interested in filming a sauna as a social study because I could notice the similarities of the Finnish sauna and the Spanish bar, where people meet and socialize.

Anne Recasens
I was born in Barcelona 1988. I just got the Audiovisual Communication degree specialized in cinema at the Univeristat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. I studied my last school year in Berlin; Freie Universität and Universität der Künste, where I got specialization in cinema production and direction and I started developing my interest and practise in documentary film. At the time I worked as a documentary journalist for the Catalan TV station.

After Berlin I moved to Helsinki where I took my internship in a Documentary production company: Illume. Last April I had the chance to find a job in a production company, Inland Company, as a producer and sales assistant. I worked in different film festivals: Festival internacional de San Sebastián (Spain), Cinemaissí (Finland) and International Random Film Festival (Sweden).