12 Sept 2026 · 1h 05minKarhupuisto Film FestivalSearch trailer on YouTube ↗

Novelist and performance poet Niko Hallikainen premieres his new cinematic poetry performance in Karhupuisto. Downward Ascension is an epic poem performed alongside a 65-minute slideshow film, a collage of footage gathered from the back alleys of cinema and television. As global power hierarchies collapse, a cryptic corporeal supersystem prepares to give rise to an unprecedented spiritual vibration. The poet is a feral animal that feeds on Hollywood waste. The show opens a space for a new kind… Show more