Two girls held a beauty contest for their Barbie dolls in 1972. The prize was a role in a film. During the shooting, the girls started to quarrel. Thirty years later, Miss Barbie girl 1972 returns and demands her share of stardom.
Read more »A portrait of a lonely woman in the Finnish countryside. The woman spends her days gardening, skiing, skating and dreaming of an exciting life in London, or just of an idle life at home.
Read more »A furniture store has been built next to a migratory birds’ nesting area. Looking from the entrance side, you may not know what is behind the building. The video was shot on the Torne river delta, Northern Finland, where IKEA built its store in 2006.
Read more »A sequence of flickering images of flying saucers, blown-up fragments and coloured patterns that, like a litmus test, begin to reveal the hidden within the familiar.
Read more »The artist sits under the only spruce tree on Harakka Island once a week for over a year (6 January 2007 - 3 February 2008). The video is shot from three angles: the hill, the path and underneath the tree.
Read more »This work is a collection of anonymous Super 8 mm home movies. Modified sequences are rhythmically edited and accompanied with sounds found from home movies.
Read more »White fluffy clouds, white wedding dress, white flowers, white bed linen are all included in her daydream about Prince Charming. The dancing couple is framed with shimmering glitter. Does the vow of eternal love live through the grey routine? 'A Daydream' is a video work painted in shades of white.
Read more »In a wide-ranging media campaign Kalleinen & Kochta-Kalleinen asked Finnish people to send them descriptions of the dreams that featured the current president of Finland. Out of the 85 they received, the artists chose 20 that they dramatized and shot.
Read more »“Unplugged” presents a minimalistic choreography for the cables in the ceiling, the zoom of the camera, the mirror on the floor and the sway of the hand.
Read more »‘What’s wrong, have you lost your ring? Don’t worry, the leaves and sun will work together like searchlights. She had never lost a ring, but we were happy to look for it.’ The silent video work combines the text with an image of a play of light on a forest soil covered with leaves.
Read more »A fictional documentary about a farmer who starts his career in his sixties and becomes an artistic sensation because of painting chubby ladies.
Read more »The film consists of two sequences: one in the room and the other at the beach. The story is told by the sound. No characters are visible. The camera shows what the characters see.
Read more »A white liquid drips down, overflows slowly and covers the dark background entirely.
Read more »Drops of red liquid move upwards in slow motion, returning to their original position.
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An installation consisting of multiple parts which can also be installed separately, Wake – Secondhand knowledge is a multimedia work designed to lure the audience into another, dream-like realm.
Read more »A woman is sitting on a red sofa. A figure dressed in blue and with a masked face approaches from a tunnel.
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