Mental Radio

>Mental Radio< is a filmed portrait about the artist's family: his parents, his autistic brother, and the house in which they live. The house is the framework for the social construct of the family. The brother is an autistic person, as well as deaf and mute. Day in and day out, he makes drawings of his favorite animal, the pig. Communication between parents and son seems to be guided by extra-sensory forces, which Zintel visualizes in scenes of effective surrealistic power. Objects, such as a tree house built by the father, and an ectoplasmic sculpture made of meringue and baked by the mother, replace verbal exchanges in the house. Sounds of nature and musical pieces composed for the film by the band Pollyester and Daniel Murena, along with the continuous sound of the radio, form the film's acoustic setting. (Pori Film Festival)