Phone Dox

Puhelinkoppi (1882-2007)

Hope Tucker
The artist employs her camera phone to document the passing of phone boots in Finland.

Marking a shift in the functioning of private and public space, after existing as a sidewalk staple for over a century, the Finnish public phone booth is now extinct. The artist employs her camera phone to document the passing.

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Hope Tucker

Hope Tucker was born in Memphis in 1974 and began The Obituary Project in 2000. The Obituary Project is a compendium of 21st century salvage ethnography that transforms a quotidian form of narrative. Hope Tucker reframes the passing of sites, people, communities, rituals, cultural markers, and ways of being. Her films have been shown at many international festivals.

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Puhelinkoppi (1882-2007)

Finland, USA
2010, 7' 30'', video

Directed by:
Hope Tucker

Cinematography:
Hope Tucker

Producer:
Hope Tucker

Produced by:
The Obituary Project

Festivals & Awards:

Antimatter Film Festival 2011; Directors Lounge, Berlin 2011; l’Alternativa 2011; Hot Springs 2011; Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux 2011; Flatpack Film Festival 2012; Images Festival 2012