Landscapes of the Mind: Emotion and Style in Aki Kaurismäki's Films

Aki Kaurismäki is a Finnish filmmaker, a modern creator and painter of emotional landscapes, and also a natural historian of sensibility, attentive to the duration of changing experiences of existentiality. He has a unique place in Finnish and international film history, media, and communication culture. Jarmo Valkola explores Kaurismäki s significance as a developer of film language: his conceptions of the audiovisual possibilities of cinematic narration, with all their pictorial, aural, editing, compositional, acting, setting, and lighting possibilities.

Auteur

Jarmo Valkola is Professor and Doctor of Philosophy,having received his doctorate from the Department of Art Education at the University of Jyväskylä,Finland. He is Docent at Aalto University,University of Lapland,and University of Jyväskylä.He is also Associate Professor at Tallinn University and Visitimg Professor at Sorbonne Nouvelle University