Vanishing point

Thomas Westphal
New work
A monochrome blue surface becomes substance while big chunks of it get sliced away and discarded. With every slice the sensory quality of one space diminishes to unfold into another reality. A wall section between two offices had to be removed; the video was created by placing a camera and blue light in one room and... Read more »

Extension 

Thomas Westphal
New work
Northern seaside in late autumn. On an absurdly narrow path of piled up stones, a lorry and an excavator advance their path into the sea. As powerful as they might seem, forming the wave breaker, they are dwarfed by the sea as their backdrop. The work explores the slow, deep rhythms involved in building and sustaining... Read more »

The Nature of Walls

Thomas Westphal
New work
While the overlapping sequences of wall demolition advances, an abstract composition of color surfaces transforms to material substance. Ever changing landscape of compositions moves through different stages and spaces. The actual situation, where the film material was shot in, gives the work instantaneity. The layers... Read more »

Land of Dreams

Heidi Kilpeläinen
New work
The title Land of Dreams is a translation of a beloved Finnish tango Satumaa, which Heidi Kilpeläinen sang during her Tango Therapy performance tour at Refugee Centres and war invalids and widows homes in Finland. On this tour, Kilpeläinen also invited the participants to sing back to her, in their own languages.... Read more »

Mr Amber King

Renja Leino
New work
Mr Amber King, charming Kazimieras Mizgiris, tells humoristically about the wonders of the legendary Baltic Amber. He himself is a well known amber enthusiast, who loves to spread the legend of amber. He even shows some strange and unusual uses for this 50 million years old fossil amber. The industry around the material is... Read more »

Inner Beauty 2

Helinä Hukkataival
New work

Inner Beauty 2 is about fitness, beauty and beauty idols. An elderly lady is doing a fitness exercise – does it work?

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Reptiles

Rikard Lassenius
New work

A work based on Peter Mickwitz’s poem dealing with a destructive relationship.

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Colophon 1

Rikard Lassenius
New work

Colophon is a brief comment at the end of a beautiful narrative.

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The Fantastic

Maija Blåfield
New work
The Fantastic is a film about encountering the unknown and the relationship between imagination and reality. The film is built on interviews with exiled North Koreans, who describe what they imagined the outside world to be like, based on their experiences of watching smuggled western fiction films. Alternating... Read more »

The Finnish Astronautical Society

Axel Straschnoy
New work
The Finnish Astronautical Society is a short film on an amateur society dedicated to the launch of model rockets that is, paradoxically, the main astronautical organisation in Finland. Founded in 1959 by enthusiastic schoolboys who, inspired by the space race, set out to build the country’s first rocket, the... Read more »

New installations in our online archive / October ’19

Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Sophia Ehrnrooth: 879 Heroes by Heart (2018, 00:27:00) 879 Heroes by Heart is an installation about youth, fandom and identity. It shows four… Read more »

Meaningless Work

Elina Brotherus
New work
After Walter de Maria, Meaningless Work, March 1960: "(…) By meaningless work I mean work which does not make you money or accomplish a conventional purpose. (…) Caution should be taken that the work chosen should not be too pleasurable, lest pleasure becomes the purpose of the work. (...) Meaningless... Read more »

Finland in Focus at UnderDox, Munich

The International Festival for Documentary and Experimental Films UnderDox, held in Munich from October 10–16, presents a three-part special programme Finland in Focus. The first part is dedicated to works by Mika Taanila, who has curated the second part of… Read more »

Bog Body

Joonas Hyvönen
New work
In an animated short film Bog Body, a human cadaver moves layer by layer deeper into a swamp somehow retaining sentience. Descending, she gets evermore entangled in a hive mind of everything the bog has preserved in itself through time. She, however, gets resurrected into a future society, just as the bog bodies of our... Read more »

Dork Factory

Joonas Hyvönen
New work
In Dork Factory, virtual reality is here, and it’s the ultimate user interface. With it, the interface agent (like the Office Assistant Clippy was) is reborn to help one to adjust to the newly reformatted environment. Now, the question remains: who really benefits, and is the seemingly harmless figure a helper or a... Read more »

Multi-faith Prayer Room

Vesa-Pekka Rannikko
New work

Animated drawing "Multi-faith Prayer Room" combines limbo zones of travelling to assosiativeness of memory. Constantly shaping animation juxtaposes images from transit areas of airports and humanised birds to fragmented written narration. The starting point of the work is Heathrow airport's hybridised prayer room.

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Last Summer

Markus Viljanen
New work

"Workers on the scaffoldings on a summer day, while the Well-Tempered Clavier by J.S. Bach is being rehearsed."

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