Dream Land

Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen Tellervo Kalleinen
New work

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.

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Words Left Behind

Elina Saloranta
New work
'The Lovers' Bed is based on Marguerite Duras' novel The North China Lover. The artist has collected sentences from the book and then created a new text based on them, a collage. Words Left Behind complements The Lovers’ Bed, forming a diphtych whose parts mirror each other. Finally the bed is brought into the... Read more »

Unplugged

Kari Yli-Annala
New work

“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.

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Until

Petra Lindholm
New work
Until is a narrative that takes place during the night, and in which all conversations occur over the phone. Shot in New York, Paris and the Finnish archipelago, the video portrays a man in a bath and a girl in a bar discussing life, dreams, and loneliness. A portrait of two strangers, their desires and the mystery of their... Read more »

UNTITLED (a portrait)

Terike Haapoja
New work
In Untitled (a portrait), we see a chimpanzee with a lively expression gazing towards us. But as the only movement we see in the image comes from reflections on glass, we realise the chimpanzee is inside a case in a museum, and the movement is that of the visitors who are actually looking at him. As is... Read more »

Untitled (Searchlight)

Mikko Kuorinki
New work

‘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.

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Untitled (Sketch of a Tree)

Axel Antas
New work
The world’s oldest living tree has a 10,000-year-old root system, and only a few know the tree's location. The installation studies the material quality of film and its reliance on an object in space and time. The temporal is presented visually and spatially: the Super 8 mm format points to the past,... Read more »

Blonde Men

Maria Ylikoski
New work
Blonde Men is a two-channel video installation in which a woman reads her daughter’s cards while teaching her the art of fortune telling. The cards promise men and wealth for both... Read more »

White Spot

Tellervo Kalleinen
New work
Tellervo Kalleinen turned a gallery into a video studio and placed advertisements in newspapers stating that anyone could come and direct a film scene here, provided that it can take place in an empty white space and that it includes a role for the artist. The project was realised with 26 participants in... Read more »

Photograph of The Sea

Elena Näsänen
New work

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.

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Overflow I

Heli Rekula
New work

A white liquid drips down, overflows slowly and covers the dark background entirely. 

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Overflow IV

Heli Rekula
New work

Drops of red liquid move upwards in slow motion, returning to their original position. 

 

 

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Wake - secondhand knowledge

Harri Larjosto
New work

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.

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Vanishing

Tanja Koistila
New work

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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Vantaa

Erkka Nissinen
New work

A musical journey. Arnold Schönberg is looking for his yoghurt – Karlheinz Stockhausen might have something to do with it.

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Free floating

Greta-Mari Voijola
New work

Multiple image layers dissolve into each other in this collage. Shots of shop windows form a waving stream of images down which a naked woman floats. Texts from advertisements are reflected on her bare skin.

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Freestyle Swimming

Santtu Koivu
New work

Cloudy sky and a low horizon in the background. A boy's hands are moving faster and faster. At full speed for as long as he can.

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The Price of Our Liberty

Seppo Renvall
New work

The film portrays men from the provinces of Uusimaa, Pori, Turku and Viaborg who were killed in the Finnish-Russian War during 1939-40.

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Warning Signs

Anneli Nygren
New work

An artistic puppet animation showing how traffic signs guide us also in the matters of love.

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Body

Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl
New work
A documentation of a performance from late September 1979. At first, we see only small spots of light that start to take a shape of a body. Little by little, these spots approach the audience and turn out to be lights attached to the performer. There are two television screens with static noise. The light-body keeps... Read more »

Veli Bror Brother

Björn Aho
New work
The work investigates the relationship and communication between two men, and the impact of the environment on people's self-image. The video is set in a small suburban wood with a stage set made of columns. Instead of words, most of the interaction between the two men is conveyed through gestures and a game of football.... Read more »

Water Stories

Harri Larjosto
New work
In 1996 Larjosto announced in a Finnish newspaper: 'I am making a documentary film. I'm looking for people with deep emotional or professional connections with water.' A midwife, a captain of an icebreaker ship, a clairvoyant, and a priest shared their intimate and personal testimonies and contemplations about water as... Read more »

This Spring We Bought the Same Jackets

Petra Lindholm
New work
A person pulls fluff out of a blanket and places it on her sleeping friend, so softly he does not wake. The act expresses both frustration and love – an irritating kind of tenderness. This gesture is repeated on three different parts of the body and is split into a video installation across three... Read more »

Via Dolorex

Pekka Sassi
New work
A young man walks in a huge and empty industrial building. He is on his way to meet the great unknown. Read more »

Vie Coye (Citron)

Eeva-Mari Haikala
New work

'Vie Coye (Citron)” is a video work taking place in the space between still life and performance. Once a day for a month, Haikala sat herself behind a table with a lemon still-life and made a small gesture that a camera recorded.

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Vie Coye (Fin)

Eeva-Mari Haikala
New work
'Vie Coye (Fin)” is a sister work of Haikala’s video performance “Vie Coye (Citron)”. It is filmed on the last day of the 30-day shoots. Read more »

Only Too Much Is Enough

Anneli Nygren
New work

A propaganda film about the new world order where fat is a desirable phenomenon. This gospel is spread by animated drawings accompanied by intertitles, voice over, "music" and onomatopoeic sounds.

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A Visit

Heta Kuchka
New work

A seven-year-old American girl performs songs she's learned by heart from the MTV-music channel. Ironically the lyrics deal with sex, drugs and violence.

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The Powerline of a five years old

Barbara Tieaho
New work

Work tells the story of creativity: a five-year-old boy paints spontaneously a picture of his family and bicycle on a five meters high paper. The work also documents the boy's family life and play.

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