{"id":6853,"date":"2010-10-20T00:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T05:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=6853"},"modified":"2026-11-04T14:32:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T14:32:39","slug":"eija-liisa-ahtila-consolation-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=6853","title":{"rendered":"Eija-Liisa Ahtila &#8211; Consolation Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/10_2010\/eija_liisa_ahtila\/consolation_service.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/consolation_service.jpg\" alt=\"consolation_service\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/10_2010\/eija_liisa_ahtila\/consolation_service.mp4\" target=\"_blank\">Consolation Service (1999, 10 MB, 1:43 min.)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Consolation Service&#8221; follows a young Finnish couple, Anni and J-P, as they<br \/>\nmake public their decision to divorce. It is set in early spring in Helsinki, with<br \/>\nits frozen landscape on the cusp of thawing.<br \/>\nConsolation service (awarded at the Venice Biennial in 1999) Ahtila also<br \/>\ndeconstructs the formation of the narrative and cinematic illusion: as though<br \/>\nin a straight documentary film (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cin%C3%A9ma_v%C3%A9rit%C3%A9\" target=\"_blank\">Cin\u00e9ma v\u00e9rit\u00e9<\/a>), both narrator and camera are<br \/>\nshown openly. The illusion of fiction is thus shattered, made visible. The use of<br \/>\na hand-held shaking camera reminds the group <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dogma_95\" target=\"_blank\">Dogma 95<\/a> led by Lars Von Triers. <\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eija-Liisa_Ahtila\" target=\"_blank\">Eija-Liisa Ahtila<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consolation Service (1999, 10 MB, 1:43 min.) &#8220;Consolation Service&#8221; follows a young Finnish couple, Anni and J-P, as they make public their decision to divorce. It is set in early spring in Helsinki, with its frozen landscape on the cusp &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=6853\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16,17,14,107,9,101,119,126,32,42,64,22,43,15,8,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-cinema","category-community","category-experimental","category-fiction","category-film","category-identity","category-journal","category-memory","category-movie","category-narrative","category-participatory","category-politics","category-portraiture","category-trailer","category-video","category-webcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6853"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12431,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853\/revisions\/12431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}