The alter ego of Pertti Kurikka – Kalevi Helvetti – delivers straight forward punk with his frightening pictures. Medieval imagery warns of earthly sins and otherworldly horrors.
Kurikka has always been interested in drawing and horror thematics. His alter ego Kalevi Helvetti was born in the autumn of 2011 in the form of a c-cassette recording. Kalevi Helvetti is a musician, performer, poet, writer and visual artist. Kalevi Helvetti’s latest venture is with film.
Does the viewer get to dive into the horror world of Kalevi Helvetti, surrounded by rats, boils and skulls or in the middle of harsh truths about everyday life. To find out one needs to see the film themselves. What’s certain, is that Kalevi Helvetti reminds us of our mortality and the film continues the path marked by Kalevi Helvetti’s horror imagery towards something greater.
