The Excursion

Maija Timonen
New work
The Excursion follows the expressions on the faces of teenagers on a school field trip. The camera captures a point of negotiation between a personal visual experience and the behavioural expectations set by a social framework. The emerging questions are: what distinguishes a ‘genuine’ experience from performance, but also... Read more »

The First Sigh

Saara Ekström
New work
The 8mm film shows a bunch of lilies slowly rising and falling as if following the rhythm of quiet breathing. The flowers are placed in a vase filled with black liquid, which gradually gets sucked up by the plants. As the white flowers absorb the dark colour the bunch seems to exhale, bruising and... Read more »

The Glass Mountain

Henna-Riikka Halonen
New work

The video work is based on a Polish folk tale about the glass mountain. The performers are Polish construction workers living in Ireland. Gradually, their work routine turns into a choreography.

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The Good Friday

Teemu Mäki
New work
In a minimalist documentation the naked Teemu Mäki goes through a masochistic, violent ritual by hitting his head again and again against a metallic locker until he loses consciousness. Each beat is accompanied by a cruel female laughter. The video ends with shots of him in the locker, close-ups of the erection and the... Read more »

The Great Lake

Nina Lassila
New work

We are walking down a path towards a lake. A voiceover describes the situation, over and over again. We hear about a person's effort to connect to this place. The camera turns to the drunk protagonist and the voiceover criticizes her.

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The Hunter

Tuomo Kangasmaa
New work

The Hunter explores the relationship between human and nature. The main character is a modern day hunter immersed in his hobby. His sense of nature is affected by technology. The act of shooting has become an end in itself.

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The Kiss

Juha Mäki-Jussila
New work

“The Kiss” is a love story. It deals with the isolation of love and the power of unification.

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The Lady of the Lake

Ulla Väätäinen Liisa Karvonen
New work

The Lady of the Lake is a minimalistic music video which reminds us how essential it is at times to close our eyes in order to see clearer. With the loss of vision of the outside world, images, memories, and dreams appear - the world where we see by other means than our eyes. Music: Ave Maria/Franz Schubert.

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The Making of Utopia

Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen Tellervo Kalleinen
New work
The film presents four Australian utopian communities that have survived for over 30 years. The communities of Moora Moora, Bodhi Farm, Dharmananda and Equilibrium responded to the invitation by directors Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen to write a fictional short film that would reflect their principles,... Read more »

The Road

Elena Näsänen
New work

A single-shot film about a path in a park, shadowed by lines of leave trees.

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The Sequent Of Hanna Ave.

Sami van Ingen
New work
The Sequent of Hanna Ave. is the result of the artist's reworkings of some experimental film practices and his enquiries into the phenomena of the movement-illusionism in the film form. By combining found footage, hand processing and high-end digital technology, he proposes to elevate a few mundane gestures to a new... Read more »

The Seventh Angel

Ulla Väätäinen Liisa Karvonen
New work
The Seventh Angel is a surreal depiction of power, cruelty, fear, subjection and submission in apocalyptic circumstances. Through the eyes of a little girl we perceive a glimmer of light in the gloomy and at times desperate world. The name of the work refers to the New Testament Book of Revelation. The Seventh Angel... Read more »

The Shining Shining

Pilvi Takala
New work
Shining Shining focuses on a specific TV studio audience who regularly attend a morning programme in Istanbul. This show is hosted by the famous Seda Sayan and watched by housewives all over Turkey for two and a half hours on weekdays. Across the two screens of the installation, we see the insincere host being worshipped by... Read more »

The Social Construction of Reality

Erkka Nissinen
New work

This tutorial preaches on sociological themes and brings forward non-visible structures of our social interactions. A man with a mustache and black curly hair lectures on the processes through which we integrate into society.

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The Spell

Elena Näsänen
New work

In The Spell, a sophisticated group of people has suddenly fallen asleep in the middle of the tea party. They are seated as if they were on a stage. The candles have burned down, flowers have dried in the vase, mist floats through the room.

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The Starfish

Kalle Hamm
New work

Shot in Helsinki, 'The Starfish' is a remake of Man Ray's 1928 film L'étoile de mer, shot in Paris.

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The Terrace

Laura Horelli
New work

As a child Laura Horelli and her family lived in a row house in Nairobi, Kenya, for a period of four years before moving back to Helsinki. The video 'The Terrace' approaches Horelli's childhood home.

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The Time Is Right For...

Marikki Hakola
New work
The Time Is Right For is a frantic video collage made from fragments of television advertisements and news clips. In between this, a shredder cuts paper endlessly into ribbons over the constant beating of drums, with screams and jingles and... Read more »

The Way You Walk

Laura Horelli
New work

A Kenyan UN employee, a Finnish architecture researcher and a German employee talk about the city of Nairobi in a Kenyan governmental office. They contemplate on the way people behave in private and public spaces.

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The Wild Swans

Annette Arlander
New work

One day in Summer 2010 I sit wrapped in a white scarf and watch boats shaped like white swans in an amusement park in Toronto and lie on the lawn nearby.

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Then What

Nina Lassila
New work

An artist is investigating different phenomena in Paris. She believes she finds connections between different events and things – maybe some sort of a message from far away.

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Theses on the Body Politic (Riket)

IC-98
New work

Riket is a site-specific, pencil drawn animation set in the nocturnal garden of “Palazzo Rettig”, built by the Rettig family of shipowners and tobacco manufacturers in the 1920s, nowadays home of the Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova Museum in Turku, Finland.

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