{"id":2829,"date":"2017-09-12T16:15:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T13:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backlight.fi\/?p=2829"},"modified":"2018-04-19T20:03:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T17:03:04","slug":"home-and-country-by-c-s-lindberg-at-museum-centre-vapriikki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/backlight.fi\/fi\/home-and-country-by-c-s-lindberg-at-museum-centre-vapriikki\/","title":{"rendered":"Home and Country by C.S. Lindberg at Museum Centre Vapriikki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Sebastian Lindberg, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebastianlindberg.net\/selected-works\/home-and-country\">Home and Country<\/a> (Video) at Museum Centre Vapriikki until October 29.<\/p>\n<p>Carl Sebastian Lindberg writes about his work:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Home and Country<\/em> relates the experiences of the artist\u2019s aunt, author Ann-Mari Lindberg who lived in Finland as a child, during the Second World War. I wanted to portray the experiences of my aunt\u2019s generation and the impact these experiences have had on her and her values because I believe that experiences of older generations are, in a way, embedded in each of us. The starting point of the work is micro-historical. I wanted to recount small events from the life of a child, and to relate them to more turbulent historical events such as war. For example, the outbreak of the war is presented through the story of Ann-Mari\u2019s father\u2019s purchase of gas masks for the entire fa\u00admily, and how her mother sewed snow camouflage suits for the children\u2013the same kind of camouflage suits the soldiers wore at the front.<\/p>\n<p>The alliance between Finland with Nazi Germany is touched upon when Ann-Mari speaks about how it felt to do the Nazi salute and march to the beat at The German School of Helsinki. Russian prisoners of war were made to work on farms, also on Ann-Mari\u2019s father\u2019s farm. By getting to know these prisoners Ann-Mari\u2019s perception of Russians changed, and afterwards, it was difficult for her to see them merely as enemies.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to depict a fragmented micro-historical perspective and a narrative mode on film\u2013a device that can help avoid the glorification of war. Apart from interviews and archival materials, the film reuses wartime newsreels by the Finnish Defence Forces. The newsreels are blatantly propagandist and racist, comparing Russians to rats and lice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The film is based on interviews with the author Ann-Mari Lindberg and contains several never before published photographs from both the school archive and family archives that have survived.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Sebastian Lindberg, Home and Country (Video) at Museum Centre Vapriikki until October 29. Carl Sebastian Lindberg writes about his work: \u201cHome and Country relates &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlight.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlight.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlight.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlight.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlight.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2829"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/backlight.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2834,"href":"http:\/\/backlight.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions\/2834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlight.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlight.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlight.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlight.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}