Sex / Male

Year of birth / 1957

Website / www.crystaleye.fi/

Ilppo Pohjola works as an artist/filmmaker based in Helsinki, Finland. He has written and directed a number of films, which have been shown internationally in art museum, galleries, cinemas, on TV and at roughly 100 film festivals, winning several international awards. Pohjola has made experimental videos and creative documentaries for TV. He also works as a designer, photographer and cinematographer. Short films and multimedia installations that he has produced have been shown internationally at art galleries and museums, winning numerous international awards and being acquired by art collectors and national museums. Ilppo Pohjola studied at the Center for Advanced Film and Television Studies of the American Film Institute, Los Angeles, USA, and at the Media Arts Department of Sheridan College, Toronto, Canada. He graduated from the Faculty of Art, Design and Film of Harrow College of Higher Education, London, UK, in 1988.