All the World a Longing
An afternoon by the ocean once when winter turns to spring. The eternal breaking of the waves. Sea foam predicting something unwelcome. Migratory birds passing quickly. The image losing details like memories which slowly fade.
Read more »(Self)Portrait
Color fields unfold as a female figure weaves her way amongst them. Changing viewpoints together with her gestures create order around the fields. The seemingly random pieces slot into place while the rhythms of sound, movement and gaze give shape to a space they all share. Installation version also available.
Read more »At Kilpisjärvi
We follow two cameramen who are working to record the Northern Lights on video, as they walk through the tundra in order to get away from any artificial lights. They look for the best spot to capture the Northern Lights. We experience the simple issues of their everyday life.
Read more »A Banana Begins With a B
A one minute lens-based performance with a banana.
Read more »A Shipwreck
Scarabée
Carbon Based Live
The Suburb Within
A film about communication, narration and presence. "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That's why it's called present."
Read more »12-IV 1961
Juri Gagarin calling from space to his mom.
Read more »Kolya and I
A comic and sinister story about man and God.
Read more »Colchester, Essex
Turning Green
A study on the progressive greenness.
Read more »Red / No Red
Music, red and no red, political or no political.
Read more »Homo Homini Lupus
Ten Commandments
The rules. Try to remember.
Read more »Bolts from the Blue
"Sleeping" Myllymäki and his big brother Kimmo made an extremely short comedy where a swimmer is surprised by lightning.
Read more »Systematic as Sperm
A simple demonstration of how scratched film forms a sensual unity with the sound effect.
Read more »How a Mysterious Hitchhiker Picks Up Three Stones
A mysterious humanoid has some magic in his fingers.
Read more »The Curse Keeps Its Cruel Course
A minimalist black and white music video for Sleeping & the Beds. The song takes a stand on various societal problems.
Read more »Mä oon stadista
An intense music video for Sleeping & the Beds, featuring the fresh faces of the 1980s subculture.
Read more »Kahvila Ruusu
An experimental punk film with a deceivingly harmless title.
Read more »The Song About the Pharisees
An abstract underground music video for scandalous song "Jesus Is Castrated Again" by Sleeping & the Beds.
Read more »Black Opening and End Credits
The most sombre of Myllymäki's films. A dystopic depiction of the imminent nuclear disaster.
Read more »Niagara-ilmiö
The footage from Niagara Falls, shot by Myllymäki's partner Legenda Laakkonen, is accompanied by Myllymäki's voice-over lamenting over the vanishing forms of Finnish idiotism.
Read more »Adaptation
Adaptation examines the moving image and narrative as a tense puzzle. The layers of time conflate in a masterful manner, keeping the story afloat. The functional lines of the architecture, the female actor dressed in red and her double all create a simulacra that gradually opens in various direction.
Read more »The Marriage
In a framed double portrait, spouses slowly turn into one another – and back. The change is gradual, almost imperceptible at first glance.
Read more »The Cage
The Cage deals with a memory of a horrible childhood experience. A woman tells about a childhood bullying incident that she has not forgiven. She meets her bully when she is adult but does not want to see that the other has changed. The story is told in backflashes.
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