Thursday, September 24, 2009

MoMA Presents: Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s Where Is Where?

I want to see...

October 1, 2009–October 7, 2009

Eija-Liisa Ahtila (b. Finland, 1959), an artist celebrated for her often interrelated moving image installation pieces and 35mm films, returns to MoMA with the New York premiere of her film Where Is Where?, a haunting and layered consideration of how history affects our perception of reality. Fifty years ago, during the Algerian war, two young Arab boys killed their French friend. In the present day, a European poet (played by the sublime Kati Outinen, known for her appearances in the films of Aki Kaurismäki) seeks to understand and interpret this event with the aid of the character Death. With her fluid, highly original use of multiframe images Ahtila expands, beautifully and arrestingly, the expressive power of cinema.
http://moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/993

Halloween 2009

Any ideas for Petra's Halloween costume this year? We were thinking Peter Pan 1) because she was obsessed and 2) because the costume would be easy to make, but I'm afraid Petra has since moved on.

Martha had some cute ideas...


A flower.


A masked bird.


Jellyfish. (apparently appropriate for all ages)

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Friday, July 3, 2009

Happy Birthday Bapa!


We know it's not polite to talk with your mouth full, but this time might be worth it. Happy birthday Bapa! Love Christopher, Kristen, and Petra.