A woman, once trapped inside a 35mm frame, is waiting to be seen. Light informs the image, reproducing a new form of life in this dance of pixels on analogue skin. By working through multiple facets of the cinematic apparatus, Analogy of Light is a transfeminist dissection of a single film frame.

Elian Mikkola is a Finnish Moving Image Artist (of Karelian descent), and a white settler Elian Mikkola is a Finnish Moving Image Artist (of Karelian descent), and a white settler currently based between Treaty 4, Regina, and Montréal (Tiohtià:ke), Canada. Originally from Turku, Finland, Mikkola holds a BA in Journalism from Tampere University. They completed their MFA in Media Production in 2019 at the University of Regina. Mikkola works closely with both analogue and digital mediums and explores themes such as memory, spatial dependencies and queer belonging. They’ve done extensive research in the field of eco-processed film since 2017.