The Grey Hour

Valentina Gelain
New work
The film explores how our emotional relationship with nature reflects our inner states of mind. It reveals how landscapes can mirror our feelings and how we project our fears, hopes, and longings onto the environment. When the familiar begins to feel both safe and suffocating, and... Read more »

The Princess and the Log Splitter

Niina Kiiveri
New work

The work is a documentation of my imagination. I reflect on the legacy left to me and my relationship with it. Daddy’s little princess works the woodpiles continuously. Even though wood is hauled into the woodshed every summer, all summer long, the amount of wood remains the same.

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From Autumn to Winter  

Yi-Chin Tsai
New work

Handmade 35mm and 16mm film transform subtle plant impressions into expansive projections. The work opens a contemplative environment in which microscopic gestures unfold into immersive spaces, allowing varied sensorial encounters with time, impermanence, and nature’s quiet resilience.

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Engraved Light Poem  

Yi-Chin Tsai
New work

In the Nordic winter, sunlight is fleeting and intensely warm; in its absence, the world sinks into the coldest shades of blue. This work is hand-engraved in the dark with logographic characters onto 16mm film. The film unfolds as a visual poem, where the marks resonate with the movement of light and color.

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Look at your light, granite  

Riikka Haapasaari
New work

An experimental short film following a fictional journey of granite beyond our time, exploring how challenges facing human societies might be viewed differently through nonhuman, inanimate perspectives.

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Lightspeed (2 experiments)

New work
If we want to go into space, we must take plants with us. In the video, a plant grows inside a space capsule–shaped environment. Light rotates around the capsule on a 48-hour cycle. At times, the light passes behind red filters, creating short periods of night for the plant. The plant grows according to a... Read more »

Replacement Track

Eero Tammi
New work

In 18 minutes, a solitary creator weaves together introspective landscapes, vintage devices, and haunting memories. In Finnish lakeside scenery near the Russian border, broken VCRs flicker with melancholic sci-fi. Nature silently observes as fragmented memories intertwine, forming an inner space of reflection.

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History

Eero Tammi
New work

A hand-drawn history of the universe from the perspective of a solitary person living in a small one-room apartment, spending their birthday going through old slide images from films.

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Æther

Ilkka Pitkänen
New work

Æther is an installation composed of four poetic video fragments, exploring states of physical and psychological recovery, inner experience, and affective memory. Rather than linear interpretation, the installation invites lingering as before a living painting: to look, feel, remember.

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Meeting at the Pond 

Kaisu Koski
New work
This performative tutorial studies the dynamics of a brown bear, tuning into their bodily rhythms and choreographies. After adopting Bolik the bear in 2024, who was rescued from human abuse to a Romanian brown bear sanctuary Libearty, the artist started following Bolik's life through the sanctuary's live video stream on... Read more »

Janne

Jade Kallio
New work
In the film, the women talk about men – what else would they talk about? – especially one: Janne. Oh, Janne… I love my man, even though I wish I didn’t. There’s another man in the film too, a hot one, swept away by his hunger for the road. The women’s relationship to men is ambiguous,... Read more »

The Double of an Ash Tree  

Annette Arlander
New work

The work depicts a performance with the ash tree growing on the rock near the Eckerö post office landing site. It is part of a series of performances for camera with the tree that took place in July 2021.

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The Pig Bliss

Paula Lehtonen
New work
The Pig Bliss is a short documentary film that follows the lives of former farm animals and their caretaker, Eveliina, at the Saparomäki Animal Sanctuary. The film presents a possible perspective on the human–animal relationship, where coexistence is based on respect, care, and... Read more »

John 9:25  

Joel Karppanen
New work
In 1980, 15-year-old Mika Taanila—soon to be a renowned filmmaker—recorded, under his then moniker Musiikkivyöry, a track titled We’re Becoming Blind. Here, played in reverse, it accompanies abstract 16mm film hand-painted by contemporary teenagers and fragments from Jean-Luc Godard’s Le... Read more »

w i t h i n

Mikko Kallinen
New work
w i t h i n is an experimental dance film shot in a natural forest where fallen and decaying trees are left untouched, reflecting an ecological approach that also informed the production process. All filming trips were made using public transport, and the soundtrack is composed solely of acoustic sound sources, including... Read more »

The Ghost Feel Hour

Eero Tammi
New work

An introspective documentary that connects the cinema space, ticket blowups, and the ritual of watching with memories and dreams.

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Room for a Break

Laura Böök
New work
Exploring changes in our working lives through everyday spaces, the documentary short film depicts breaks in a think tank, a construction site container, a museum, and a midwives’ break room, among others. A break expands into a question of space and time: who can take one, in what kinds of settings breaks occur, and... Read more »

Poverty saves

Juhani Koivumäki
New work

The short documentary film Poverty Saves tells about Pentti-Otto Koskinen (b.1952), a performance artist who after abandoning the art world, proclaims that poverty saves.

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Moses

Jenni Luhta Lauri Luhta
New work

Entombed in a dark place, surrounded by the rising threat of antisemitism, the elderly Freud, ever the heroic atheist, attempts as his final deed to come to terms with the origin of monotheistic faith and the religion of his ancestors.

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Niin oli minunkin laitani – an exchange of letters

Elina Saloranta
New work
This piece presents a kind of early 1900s MeToo conversation. The soundtrack consists of two letters written by the singer Elli Forssell-Rozentāle (1871–1943) and her sister, the violinist Anna Forssell (1882–1970). The image track features portraits of the sisters seen through a veil of clouds, which were... Read more »