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Farewell to Snow - Snowplay (Jäähyväiset lumelle - Lumileikki)

Sanni Priha

synopsis

lenght

13 min

year

2024

university

Independent artist, Finland

technical info

Experimental hybrid documentary film

This film-poem examines the bodily and sensual connection between the human and the non-human – the love between a poet and the disappearing snow in the Circumpolar North. The poet-player dives into the snow, opening and closing the folds of memory, desire, grief and loss. A nature documentary for the generations of a snowless future.

Sanni Priha works across moving image, live art, and artistic research. Her practice centres on embodied practices and site-responsive approaches, explored through documentary film and participatory performances, unfolding at the intersection of body, environment, and narrative. She is currently a Junior Researcher in the interdisciplinary the Arctic in a Changing World doctoral programme at the University of Lapland. Priha holds an MA in Documentary Film from Aalto University and a BA in Film Studies and Drama from Queen Mary University of London. Her work is informed by a background in contemporary dance and long-term collective practice with the Helsinki-based live art collective Other Spaces. Across her projects, Priha explores how moving image and performance can attune to ecological change, more-than-human perspectives, and embodied ways of knowing.