Family Files CD-ROM

Interactive family album (1998)

“It’s cinema reinforcing interaction and interaction reinforcing cinema.”

– Pauline Bax, New York: Interactions, 1999

“Mari Soppela’s Family Files cd-rom uses, as its visual raw material, the home movies made by her and her husband, Leo Anemaet, filmed in the archaic Super-8 medium. The material is divided into fifteen episodes from their family life, recorded over the past three years…”

– Dirk van Weelden, Amsterdam: Mediamatic Magazine, 1998

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Passikuvassa by Arvo Tuominen, Helsinki: Yle TV1, 1998

“Reanimating and resensitizing sounds and smells, reilluminating surfaces and patina; the textures of the personal past.”
– Mike Leggett, Sydney: World Art, 1998