The dancers of the Helsinki Youth Society perform the old Viennese-Karelian wedding dance; these images are juxtaposed to the dance of the various birds. The final instalment in Lehmuskallio’s cycle of short films exploring the relationship between man and nature, in this case illustrated as a study of various ritual dances of both humans and animals. Notably, for the first time the images of rock art appear here, representing the earliest expression of human’s need for creation; paintings from different epochs would later become a recurrent motif in the work of Lapsui and Lehmuskallio.
The Dance of Life
Elämän tanssi
Markku Lehmuskallio
1975
Finland
15’
