Savage Beauty – The World’s Greatest Light Installation
A documentary movie about Finnish light artist Kari Kola making the world biggest light installation in Connemara, Ireland. The movie tells the story of an underdog, to whom nothing is impossible.
Directed by: Janne Tanskanen
Lenght: 57 min
Production: Movage Films 2024
The documentary follows how Finnish light artist Kari Kola is building the biggest ever made light installation in Connemara, Ireland. The city of Galway has commissioned a work from Kari as part of the European Capital of Culture 2020 program. The installation is supposed to be ”something big” and Kari decides to light up a whole mountain. The art piece is named Savage Beauty, an expression by Oscar Wilde portraying the Connemara region.
Kari has always been the underdog. He has always been hyperactive and mathematically talented, which lead to problems in school. Because of his extarordinary personality, other people have hard time trying to follow his ideas and take him seriously. But Kari lives in his own world where nothing is impossible.
