Finntastic: New Finnish Cinema

Sunday Showcase

Aalto: Architect of Emotions
Directed by Virpi Suutari

Sunday, August 20, 12:30 pm

FREE

This captivating exploration of Alvar Aalto, the defining figure in Scandic design and one of Europe’s greatest modern architects focuses on his remarkable and loving partnership with his wife, Aino.

Theirs was a profoundly humanist vision that put people at the center of design and ranged from work in furniture design to huge architectural projects. They mixed with, and influenced, major figures of modernist art and design including Le Corbusier, Gropius, Moholy-Nagy, and Frank Lloyd Wright.

This documentary covers of their iconic buildings all over the world, from a library in Russia, a student dormitory at MIT, an art collector’s private house near Paris, to a pavilion in Venice. Narrated by experts in the field and featuring rare archive footage, Aalto tells the love story of an extraordinary couple with a great passion for human-scale architecture. 2020, Finland, DCP, in German, Italian, Russian, French Swedish, Finnish, and English with English subtitles, 102 minutes. Recommended for 12+.

Finntastic: New Finnish Cinema is a touring program offered by the Finnish Film Foundation celebrating a new generation of female filmmakers.  Special thanks to Arttu Mannien and Alissa Simon for their programming assistance.