This film-collage traces the journeys of sailors from a small Finnish port between the 1960s and
1990s. At its center is seventeen-year-old Jalmar Yrjänen, whose diaries, letters, telegrams, and
logbook entries reveal the perilous routines of young seafarers and their often tragic fates on the
unforgiving sea. At the same time, crew-shot footage captures the traces of a colonial world and
the emergence of globalization – key processes shaping the twentieth century.
Milja Viita
Milja Viita is a Finnish visual artist and filmmaker. Her work explores nature, the individual’s
relation to history and time, and social phenomena. Her experimental film Animal Bridge U-
3033 (2018) received the Risto Jarva Award at the Tampere Film Festival. Viita’s works have
been presented at major international film festivals and are held in the collections of the Kiasma
Museum of Contemporary Art as well as in private collections.
This film-collage traces the journeys of sailors from a small Finnish port between the 1960s and
1990s. At its center is seventeen-year-old Jalmar Yrjänen, whose diaries, letters, telegrams, and
logbook entries reveal the perilous routines of young seafarers and their often tragic fates on the
unforgiving sea. At the same time, crew-shot footage captures the traces of a colonial world and
the emergence of globalization – key processes shaping the twentieth century.
Milja Viita
Milja Viita is a Finnish visual artist and filmmaker. Her work explores nature, the individual’s
relation to history and time, and social phenomena. Her experimental film Animal Bridge U-
3033 (2018) received the Risto Jarva Award at the Tampere Film Festival. Viita’s works have
been presented at major international film festivals and are held in the collections of the Kiasma
Museum of Contemporary Art as well as in private collections.
1990s. At its center is seventeen-year-old Jalmar Yrjänen, whose diaries, letters, telegrams, and
logbook entries reveal the perilous routines of young seafarers and their often tragic fates on the
unforgiving sea. At the same time, crew-shot footage captures the traces of a colonial world and
the emergence of globalization – key processes shaping the twentieth century.
Milja Viita
Milja Viita is a Finnish visual artist and filmmaker. Her work explores nature, the individual’s
relation to history and time, and social phenomena. Her experimental film Animal Bridge U-
3033 (2018) received the Risto Jarva Award at the Tampere Film Festival. Viita’s works have
been presented at major international film festivals and are held in the collections of the Kiasma
Museum of Contemporary Art as well as in private collections.