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Secret words and related stories
by Jonna Kina
2016, 20′
Presented at Lo schermo dell’arte 2021 in occasion of the exhibition Directing the Real: Artists’ Film and Video in the 2010s
The film is part of VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images – 6th edition
Courtesy dell’artista
The work is a collection of anonymously collected passwords and the stories behind them, questioning the place of personal ‘secrets’ and security in contemporary society. In the video young actors, between the ages of 13-16 years old, stand in front of a red backdrop and read thoughtful, humorous, and emotional stories about a chosen word that often discloses personal information, which is the antithesis of its purpose. Alongside with the video the 74 passwords and stories behind them is published in a book with the same name in the style of a paperback novel.
Jonna Kina works with a variety of media, including films, installations, photographs, sounds, texts and publications. Her multidisciplinary practice explores the notion of encoding and decoding as well as the boundaries between different forms of representation. Kina graduated from the Finnish Academy of Arts and from Aalto University, School of Arts, department of photography. She has also studied in the School of Visual Arts, New York and in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. Her works have been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Finland and abroad, such as Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Museo Amparo Puebla, Helsinki Art Museum, Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid, Finnish Museum of Photography and most recently in the Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City. Nordisk Panorama Film Festival selected Kina’s work Arr. for a Scene (2017) as The Winner of Nordic Short film 2017 in September.