Aki Kaurism ki is a Finnish filmmaker, a modern creator and painter of emotional landscapes, and also a natural historian of sensibility, attentive to the duration of changing experiences of existentiality. He has a unique place in Finnish and international film history, media, and communication culture. Jarmo Valkola explores Kaurism ki's significance as a developer of film language: his conceptions of the audiovisual possibilities of cinematic narration,...