Great things about art

You see the work first

Different ways of talking about issues

Surprising yourself

Changing your mind

Showing that you care

Going under the surface

Works that stand out from the multitude of images

Deep relationships with distinct works

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Artists are children?

I once drew a crying homeless man when I was at daycare. Why? I'm not sure. It was something I either saw or imagined for the first time. I did it because it felt interesting.

Pay attention to your inner world when you see something for the first time. This is closely connected to atmosphere. You don't need a ton of information to get the feeling right. Only you know how to be inherently intuitive, playful and how to generate ideas unconsciously.

It is vital for your inner world to mature, but you can benefit vastly from a naive imagination unhindered by cynicism, reluctance and suffocating rationality. Art without iconic and visionary qualities is useless.

My art is a mixture of the childlike and the experienced. When I started listing the titles of my drawings I noticed that it's a list of things and emotions, not a list of references. I still have no intention of going nuts with pompous references. It's more important to notice that something is missing. Perhaps it will help me produce works that won't disappear.

Maa - Earth

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019

Everyone's In Splooge With You

When A Man Splooges A Woman

Splooge At First Sight

Splooge Is A Woman

Tender Splooge And Care

Everyone's In Splooge With You

Splooge Me Like The First Time

Can't Buy Me Splooge

Splooge Theme From "The Godfather"

Splooge Me Do

Splooge Is Blind

Head Over Heels In Splooge

For The Splooge Of God

You Always Hurt The One You Splooge

Tis Better To Have Splooged And Lost Than Never To Have Splooged At All

An Old Fashioned Splooge Song

Splooge Goggles

All You Need Is Splooge

Chapel Of Splooge

The Course Of True Splooge Never Ran Smoothly

P.S. I Splooge You

Mykkä kirkkoherra - Mute Vicar

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019

Cardboard, Tape, Broomsticks and Paint - The Making of Forming Moons (2019)

Forming Moons is my independent debut film. I will try to describe this one-man production without revealing too much.

FIRST THING

I make 50 individual wax drawings every year. In 2018 I already had 50 drawings in May. My body of work also includes 5 electronic classical albums and experimental photography.

My work has to do with connecting things and ideas unconsciously. In the case of Forming Moons the first thing was a photo of a distant galaxy (NGC 4921). The second thing was the idea of discovering things inside one room.

PAINTING AND ISOLATION

Forming Moons was shot in Vaasa, Finland between June and December 2018. I made it completely by myself and the budget was 300 euros. Forming Moons was always a silent film and it never had a Finnish title. I've always wanted to make a film, and I wanted to make a silent film for several reasons. I love silent films, I knew my limitations and I value the medium as a visual artist.

Forming Moons is an expressionistic and experimental film with a narrative about painting and isolation. The title and the name of the fraternity poetically describes the monks. This fraternity was always mysterious and I never wrote the backstory. The film I was making didn't need it. The ideas told me what to do.

The film never had a script. First I filled a notebook with ideas, then I wrote down the structure. I tried to imagine the entire film. There were only lists, notes and designs.

All the themes on the soundtrack were composed during filming. The ambient side was made after I had all the footage.

The poster is a wax drawing and that is what I do most of the time. Painting is a way to get ideas and it was also part of the experiment in this film. I used every type of black paint I could find. There are 25 paintings and the last 15 emerge from the atmosphere and the unconscious. All paintings were done once - the last 15 were based on designs.

The way the film looks reminds me of 16 mm. It was never going to look amazing. I cared more about the images themselves. I built a tripod that had a long flexible neck and the rest was handheld. I attached the camera to a broomstick when I shot different animal points of view outside.

I admire the works of David Lynch and Carl Dreyer but I still wanted to make my own film. Eraserhead was one of the first films that made me want to create. I realised I wasn't just looking at the surface. I could see how it was made but I couldn't explain it.

Forming Moons (2019)

An expressionistic silent film with a narrative about painting and isolation. Visual, atmospheric and intense.

Writing, direction, filming, production, performance, design, artwork, music and soundtrack by Tero Rinta-Perälä

1.78:1, 68 Minutes, Black and White. Contains written English, no intertitles.

Shot in Vaasa, Finland, 2018.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rUOQVgAVbA

Forming Moons (2019) Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

6th classical album by Rinta-Perälä.
Music, artwork and production by Rinta-Perälä.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg1hHp6UDXw

Release date March 24, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/user/mytelevisionface/videos

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Adding the finishing touches to my independent debut film. This is a still from the 68-minute cut.

The soundtrack is now finished. The silent film score and the soundtrack album (my 6th album) will be very similar.

Relevant words

Humiliation - https://www.thefreedictionary.com/humiliation
Stultification - https://www.thefreedictionary.com/stultification
Vileness - https://www.thefreedictionary.com/vileness
Drudgery - https://www.thefreedictionary.com/drudgery
Gloat - https://www.thefreedictionary.com/gloat
Grandiosity - https://www.thefreedictionary.com/grandiosity
Trivial - https://www.thefreedictionary.com/trivial
Facile - https://www.thefreedictionary.com/facile
Intellectualize - https://www.thefreedictionary.com/intellectualize

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Allusive - https://www.thefreedictionary.com/allusive
Spirit - https://www.thefreedictionary.com/spirit
Critical - https://www.thefreedictionary.com/critical
Tangible - https://www.thefreedictionary.com/tangible
Longing - https://www.thefreedictionary.com/longing
Rouse - https://www.thefreedictionary.com/rouse

Forming dreams come true

I've been working on this art film about a painting monk for 9 months. The first cut is ready and the soundtrack is almost finished.

Forming sounds

My first film is near completion.

Running time will be around 70 minutes.

The film is still missing 50 minutes of sound design.

"Forming Moons" is an expressionistic silent film with a narrative about painting and isolation.

Writing, direction, filming, production, performance, design, artwork, music and soundtrack by Tero Rinta-Perälä.

Oozier than thou

"Is that which is oozy loved by the gods because it is oozy, or is it oozy because it is loved by the gods?"

"Never lose an oozy curiosity"

"So let the Oozy Spirit deal with anything that's keeping you from obeying Christ"

"Expecting perfection from ourselves or others is not what ooziness is about"

"The oozy of oozies"

"He was only five, but he was an oozy terror"

"Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am oozier than thou"

"Old oozy Joe wants to see all of us at services"

"Michael always wanted to be a priest, so I'm not surprised to hear that he's in oozy orders now"

"Oozy crap on a cracker, that's amazing!"

"However many oozy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?"

"I don't understand your works"

- What do they feel like?

- Is that your final answer?

- Is there anything interesting here you can't find anywhere else?

- Are there any cliches or stereotypes standing between you and these works?

- Is it because you're just looking at the surface?

- If you're looking for an explanation, you're not going to get one.

- Poor you.

- Thanks for telling me.