Circus film

Hiukkavaaran Kokardi Klubi • 74 Minutes • Film

Circus Tuomento is a documentary about Finland’s most famous tightrope walker, Antti Tuomento (b.1968). After the tragic break of his circus career, he focuses on building his own city. About a dozen fascinating, organic buildings have been made in the garden. The city with its museum, church and theater can be seen as try out to take fate into his own hands - and to build an entire alternative world.

The second narrator of the film, Antti’s father, novel writer Matti Tuomento (1933-2016), lived in the crosswalk of a failed artisthood, disgusting fatherhood and his own childhood trauma. He poured his own childhood trauma and artistic collapse over his family. Trauma, which has moved from one generation to the next, has turned now into Antti’s fascinating city. It is one of the most important art environments in our country. Antti has declared the city of Pelimannimäki as an independent kingdom.