Who Has Seen the Wind?

This impressionistic short film captures a decade of life beside a 170‑year-old forest at the Arctic Circle in Northern Finland—a vivid and forested tableau vivant.

director: Panu Johansson, poet: Christina Rossetti, Finland, 2023, 5 min, in English

About the Artist

Panu Johansson is a media artist and an experimental filmmaker from Finland. He works with moving image, photography and sound. His works have been exhibited in various festivals, exhibitions and microcinemas since the year 2000.

Reoccurring themes in Johansson’s work are memories, landscape, the history of experimental film and cultural history. When working with moving image he prefers analogue film, though he is open to all materials. Johansson collects images and sounds eagerly and also likes to use “found footage” materials whenever possible. His works could be described with terms such as landscape film, diary film or personal film.