Hamish and Eeva I

Eeva-Mari Haikala
New work
Before stepping in front of the camera the dancer Hamish MacPherson touched Eeva-Mari Haikala's body in such a way that he would remember that moment and how her body... Read more »

Cooking Pot

Eeva-Mari Haikala
New work

Before standing in front of the camera and placing the cooking pot on her head, a woman listens to a song, the rhythm of which she tries to remember in front of the camera by drumming on the pot.

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Sacre

Anni Puolakka Jaakko Pallasvuo
New work
A cyber goth in her thirties makes dance videos at home, seeking freedom and the truth in a society obsessed with productivity and success. Her mode of living is persistently challenged by an older brother, whose caring and love come with a strive to transform her sister. The sibling drama takes a new turn upon the goth's... Read more »

FRONTIERS

Marikki Hakola
New work

Frontiers consists of video projections, a soundtrack and metal reliefs installed upon music stands. Frontiers invites the spectator to contemplate whether the visual references of the reliefs are signs of a life lived, pieces of a language long since disappeared, or the remains of structures mangled by war.

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Location

Diego Bruno
New work

Location: archaeological excavation of the Clandestine Detention Centre – Mansión Seré. Used by the last Argentinian dictatorship (1976–1983). Located in 48, Blas Parera st. between Santa María de Oro st. and Bufano st. in the city of Castelar, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Galindez

Diego Bruno
New work
Galindez is based on the theater play El Señor Galindez, written by Argen­tine psychoanalyst, dramaturgist and actor Eduardo Pavlovsky in 1972. The film takes as its setting the Payró Theater in Buenos Aires, in which the play was first released in January 1973. Diego Bruno's work focuses on the formation... Read more »

Cassandra Tytler

Anneli Nygren
New work

Cassandra Tytler, artist in residence in Turku, interviewed on her works, in present exhibition and before – strongly influenced by B-movies.

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East River

Liinu Grönlund
New work

The UN headquarters stand on the eastern side of Manhattan by the East River. Stories of the past and about the natural history of the river interact with the found footage from the archive of YouTube.

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Arkhipelagos (Navigating the Tides of Time)

IC-98
New work
In the aftermath of a future catastrophe, survivors try to navigate where no geographical reference points remain, only time and weather reign. In ‘Arkhipelagos (Navigating the Tides of Time)’, the material debris present in the classical riverside building of our 2011 work ‘A View from... Read more »

Abendland

IC-98
New work

“In the shadow lies the sick god dreaming venomous dreams…” Abendland is a three-part animation set in a mythologized distant future, a twilight world after the age of man. 

 

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Year of the Horse - Calendar 1-2

Annette Arlander
New work
During the year of the horse 2014 the artist revisited once a month the site on Harakka Island, which she visited once a week during the year of the horse 2002, wearing the same dark blue scarf. Part 1: The artist stands on the hill in front of the camera, covering most of the view. Part 2: The artist sits on a rock on the... Read more »

Hermaphrodites

Mika Taanila
New work
Double projection. Swissair was an early 1980's experimental post-punk band, consisting of six Helsinki teenagers. The film follows the band's adolescent years from playful goofing around into more observational cinema interspersed with humorous acted sequences of what the group called "neuro-ing" – manifestations of... Read more »

Camera

Axel Straschnoy
New work

MAA-TILA gallery was converted into a film camera that recorded the street in front of it. Visitors of the exhibition walked into the camera therefore interfering with the recording mechanism. After two weeks of exhibition, the resulting film was spooled together to make Camera.

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The Figure of the Earth

Axel Straschnoy
New work
The Figure of the Earth (La Figure de la Terre) is a short film based on the book by the same name published by Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis. Maupertuis narrates... Read more »

The Light from Within the Mountain

Sami Sänpäkkilä
New work

Ten pieces created by Tomas Regan and Sami Sänpäkkilä. The collaborative works combine video and drawing swarming compelling imagery towards the viewer and toying with visual illusions. 

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Theme Park

Risto-Pekka Blom
New work

You will learn how to own. You do not owe anything to anyone. You will get it all. A video about an air-filled figure at the shopping centre.

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On C. D. Friedrich #02: Dancing

David Muth
New work
In a series of videos entitled On C. D. Friedrich, David Muth engages with the famous German painter and his particular approach to the depiction of landscape. In one video we are presented with a drummer sitting behind his kit who is working the drums, in another, a dancer performs moves, both of these scenes taking place... Read more »

Patterns

David Muth
New work

Combining abstraction with real life in a humorous fashion, the installation portrays patterns of industrially manufactured covers of the seating in public transport. 

 

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Eagle

Eino Ruutsalo
New work
The film conveys modern dance impulses in the shape of an eagle that flies free and proud high above. Contrasts of black and white vary in intensive rhythms and flashing images that become united in a ballet of pictures at the same time as the increasing rhythm of the dancer grows to a lofty flight. At the climax of the... Read more »

Is This the World of Teddy?

Eino Ruutsalo
New work
The film is collage of news pictures well known to all of us. But do we have the right to throw them away after having looked at them once or twice? Should we not examine and distribute them through all available channels, in order for pain to disappear and love to win. Is this the world of Teddy Bear we will leave behind... Read more »

Food

Eino Ruutsalo
New work

Our food is radioactive. The fallout descends upon our cities and ourselves. It penetrates everywhere. The world takes on new colours, values are upset, and existence involves risk. Only dreams and expectations remain.

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The Jump

Eino Ruutsalo
New work
Clutched in the grasp of mechanization, a little man incessantly performs monotonous series of movements. The world is a void of humanity and warmth. While examining his felt boots his subconscious begins to revolt and a visual world opens up. The inner relations of the visions cannot be defined exactly: it is either an... Read more »

Two Chickens

Eino Ruutsalo
New work
Two Chickens is a form of cinematic action painting. The film presents a hysterical set of images of the female body, awkward auditions, crackers, a hovering feather and an overwhelming amount of paint and colour. Ruutsalo manipulates changing images with an intuitive intensity. Otto Donner's music is one of the forgotten... Read more »

Kinetic Pictures

Eino Ruutsalo
New work
The film makes an attempt to provide a new basis for pictorial expression by means of pre-prepared and post-treated film and by the use of cinematic motion as a framework. The power of the picture frame is reinforced with painting. Various types of film, glossy, black, picture-line, negative and positive, have been... Read more »

On C. D. Friedrich #01: Drumming

David Muth
New work
In a series of videos entitled On C. D. Friedrich, David Muth engages with the famous German painter and his particular approach to the depiction of landscape. In one video we are presented with a drummer sitting behind his kit who is working the drums, in another, a dancer performs moves, both of these scenes taking place... Read more »

Christmas Piece

David Muth
New work

The video “Christmas Piece” shows a tree being rotated rapidly by the force of a combustion engine.

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