Sami Sänpäkkilä lives and works near the forests of Tampere, Finland. He is a musician (using the pseudonym Es), filmmaker, visual artist and, in 1995, founder of the Fonal label (experiments with sound, a cross between free-folk environments and powerful drones). Sami Sänpäkkilä has produced more than 20 short films and music videos which have been screened at museums, art galleries and film festivals around the world. His films and videos are like experimental landscapes of feeling that explore the themes of pathos, melancholy and hope and are structured in the form of tentative narrations indifferent to the conventions of narrative development, of mimesis or respect for temporality.
Goodiepal - A Day in the Mouth episode 5 is the portrait that Sami Sänpäkkilä dedicates to Goodiepal (or Gæoudjiparl van den Dobbelsteen, that is, Parl Kristian Bjørn Vester). The video shows the daily life of this Danish musician, performer and visual artist (from the Faroe Islands), starting with Kommunal Klon Komputer 2, the strange vehicle with which Parl moves about, retrieved directly from the collective imagination of the 1970s, when we imagined that in the future the world would move on bicycles. Parl speaks of his travels, of his experience as a participant of festivals (and on the meaning of and the way to plan festivals) and passes from the aesthetics of electricity to his methods and models of musical composition (to which a good part of the documentary is dedicated). Goodiepal - A Day in the Mouth episode 5 is a portrait that penetrates into a world and a method, and where life and artistic research overlap in a strange indistinguishability.
