Flame
A fractured melodrama based on damaged frames from the last minutes of the only remaining nitrate reel of director Teuvo Tulio’s lost feature film Silja – Fallen Asleep When Young (1937). All screening prints and the negative of the film were destroyed in a 1959 studio fire. A sequence from the middle of the film was found at La Cinémathèque Française in Paris in 2015.
- Finland
- 2018, 15 min
- Director: Sami van Ingen
- Editor: Sami van Ingen
- Music: Henri Lindström
- Producer: Mika Taanila, Jussi Eerola
- Production: Elokuvayhtiö Testifilmi
Sami van Ingen
Sami van Ingen is a veteran of alternative Finnish cinema who has worked as an artist, lecturer, and curator since the late 1980s. He lives and works in Helsinki, Finland, where he completed his doctoral studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in 2012. He often uses random or found material in his works, which have been shown at many national and international exhibitions and festivals over the years, including Tbilisi Triennial (2012), Kunsthalle Helsinki (2005), and the Sara Hildén Art Museum in Tampere, Finland (2002).