Cécile Fontaine (left) with Tiina Erkintalo, the director of first three Avanto Festivals in 2000-2002
photo by Anne Hämäläinen

"Such spectacular effects were echoed in the surreal film collages of compatriot Cécile Fontaine, who used scalpel, adhesive tape and household chemicals to rework found footage into raw kaleidoscopic montages whose ingeniously ruined soundtracks alternately purred and roared at the audience."
Ken Hollings, The Wire issue 251, January 2005