Sisarelle – Till Syster is a short film about a sorrowful ballad sung by a forgotten folk singer—and the desire to remember its ending differently.

Cultural producer and artist Anna Rosendahl discovered a remarkable singer in her distant ancestry: Matilda ‘Tilda’ Troberg, who lived on the island of Pettu from 1860 to 1933 and carried in her memory over a hundred ballads, songs, and spells. Rosendahl tried to find traces of Tilda’s songs in herself. One of Tilda’s songs tells the story of two sisters. The journey of this oral tradition into our time has been broken, and Rosendahl could not find the song within herself. Instead, she chose to give the cruel and sorrowful song an alternative ending.

Sisarelle – Till Syster is the first part of a trilogy on time, memory and agency and Rosendahl's first short film.

Anna Irma Rosendahl (b. 1984) is a Helsinki-based artist working with moving image, text and sound. Her works aim to create a dialogue with different cultural phenomena and time.