Warm Data

              photo: Jacky Law, source: Midnight Sun Film Festival 2024

Step into the bustling streets of Toronto through the small-scale project designed as both, live expanded cinema and digital film, where the visual narrative unfolds in layers of urban information captured entirely on 16mm black and white film to tell the story about city symphony.

Entitled "Warm Data," it shows deep into the fabric of the metropolis, where every frame pulses with the city dynamics and offers another dimension of understanding to what is typically learned only through quantitative data, (cold data).

Here, two 16mm film projectors are joined by an old, school-type overhead projector. I use this machine like a puppeteer tool, where I rhythmically animate folded silhouettes of paper that echo the  shapes of the city. Adding a kaleidoscope of filters, I fill in the simple black-and-white frames of the film with colors, textures and mesmerizing patterns. With live projections and hands-on manipulations, I carefully orchestrate the pace and flow of the story.

Canada/Finland

2024

director: Natalia Kozieł-Kalliomäki

cinematography: Natalia Kozieł-Kalliomäki

editing: Natalia Kozieł-Kalliomäki

music: KuuPuu

produced at: Liaison of Independent Filmmakers in Toronto, LIFT, Canada

additional funding: AVEK Audiovisual Centre

format: live performance with 2 x 16 mm + overhead projector

language: no dialogue

duration: 23 min