At Hand (Europe)
Heidi Tikka
New work
Grind
Jenni Hiltunen
New work
Dancehall Queen Style is a Jamaican dance fashion which became popular in the 1990s through music videos and The Grind show on MTV. The video takes elements from dancehall culture and traditional Sámi outfit.
Read more »Aune, or On Effective Demise
Maija Timonen
New work
Aune is confined to her bed, living under the threat of amputation. She dreams of a park both sensing the future and its absence. Her body acquires significance as a cipher of a larger process of dismemberment. A love story turns into a film about sex, death and the economy.
Read more »Maamme
Mark Roberts Minna Rainio
New work
Nu descendant un escalier, Nu montant un escalier
Elina Brotherus
New work
The Black Bay Sequence
Elina Brotherus
New work
A study of the weather, water and sky and of a lonely figure who enters the water, returns and walks out of the frame. Filmed with the camera placed at a consistent vantage point over a period of one summer, at different times of the day and night.
Read more »Deadline
Lea Kantonen Pekka Kantonen Marikki Hakola
New work
Deadine presents the renewing powers of nature as the antithesis of the ideology of endless growth symbolized by urban environment. The black line – deadline – is not in the end drawn between life and death, but between two opposite worldviews. Turppi Group (1982-83) was an artists' collective... Read more »
Telephone
Marikki Hakola
New work
Telephone is a dystopia about people who gradually lose a human contact between each other in a pressure of the totalitarian information society. Spoken words echo in the endless technological environment without reaching their destination. Telephone is based on the PIIPÄÄ performance (1987).
Read more »Becoming Juniper – Kökar
Annette Arlander
New work
In June 2011, wrapped in a green scarf, I am spending time with junipers on the island of Kökar.
Read more »Becoming Juniper – Kalvola
Annette Arlander
New work
On a summer day in 2011, wrapped in a green scarf, I am spending time with junipers in Kalvola.
Read more »Becoming Juniper – Ismolas
Annette Arlander
New work
In February 2012, wrapped in a green scarf, I am spending time with junipers in Ismolas in Sardinia.
Read more »Year of the Rabbit – By the Bird Shed
Annette Arlander
New work
Wrapped in a green scarf I stand next to the bird shed situated on the southeastern shore of Harakka Island on Sundays 3 pm during the year of the rabbit between February 6, 2011 and January 22, 2012.
Read more »Year of the Rabbit – With a Juniper
Annette Arlander
New work
Wrapped in a green scarf I visit a juniper growing on the southeastern shore of Harakka Island on Sundays 3 pm during the year of the rabbit between February 6, 2011 and January 22, 2012.
Read more »Day and Night of the Rabbit – In the Year of the Dragon 1 & 2
Annette Arlander
New work
Part 1. Wrapped in a green scarf I visit the juniper growing on the southeastern shore of Harakka Island with three-hour intervals on June 16 at 1 pm to June 17 at 1 pm. Part 2. The juniper on its own video recorded on the same occasions.
Read more »Becoming Juniper – Rovaniemi
Annette Arlander
New work
In the beginning of May 2012, wrapped in a green scarf, I am spending time with junipers below Ounasvaara in Rovaniemi.
Read more »Holding Hands with Junipers– Ibiza
Annette Arlander
New work
In October 2012, wrapped in a green scarf, I am spending time with junipers on Ibiza.
Read more »Holding Hands with a Juniper – Seili
Annette Arlander
New work
In August 2011, wrapped in a green scarf, I am holding hands with a juniper on the island of Seili.
Read more »Holding Hands with a Juniper – Osaka
Annette Arlander
New work
In August 2011, wrapped in a green scarf, I am holding hands with a juniper in Osaka.
Read more »With a Juniper – Crete
Annette Arlander
New work
In October 2011, wrapped in a green scarf, I am spending time with a juniper on Crete.
Read more »Becoming Juniper in Rain
Annette Arlander
New work
In October 2011, wrapped in a green scarf, I am spending time with a juniper on Crete, in rain.
Read more »Seeing Things
Kati Åberg
New work
Seeing Things tells the true story of a woman who unexpectedly goes blind at the age of fifty. The piece follows her as she drifts further from the sighted community into her own imaginary world, which gradually becomes oppressive, even frightening. Now you see it… now you don’t.
Read more »Matchbox
Gun Holmström
New work
In this matchbox pinhole camera film we spend a day with a young boy who is learning how to be alone.The essential thing in a city is not so much the buildings as the people. Our personal city consists of the lives of countless people which we only see glimpses of in public space.
Read more »A Man of Glass
Sakari Tervo
New work
“Glass is something that's hard but fragile. It can easily break and cut a wound to one's flesh.” A Man of Glass mixes cell phone video footage with DIA photos and HDcreating a visual portrait in a loose documentary-like style. It generates an associative story of a young man whose life is coloured by melancholy... Read more »
Light in the window
Pauliina Salminen
New work
The installation consists of two dark windows in which people appear. They become visible as they turn on the light. Some of them are hidden by the condensation on the glass, some wipe it off entirely whereas others draw a figure in it, making them more visible behind the glass. There is an interaction... Read more »
GHOSTS
Jan Ijäs
New work
Film about a former envelope factory (located in Tampere, 500 km down from Arctic Circle), turned to a center for asylum seekers - a warehouse for humans. "I’m just existing… that’s the only word I can use. Just the fact that I’m not dead, but is not I’m living as well. I’m... Read more »
Future Ghosts
Marko Lampisuo
New work
Generation after generation families set themselves on the same stairs for a group photo. The family portrait aids in constructing one's self-understanding and relationships. A photographic image is a mirror whose reflections veil the original moment. Flashbacks of memories are different every time the photograph is seen.... Read more »
SUR l’eau REAL
Marjo Levlin
New work
"Mom, at what point you stopped hugging me when taking me to school?" SUR l´eau REAL is an experimental short film emerged from this question posed by my adult son. The piece is connecting this question to a dream experienced about twenty years back and to thoughts inspired by L´eau et les rêves... Read more »
Solitude in Year Zero
Jan Ijäs
New work
Technology connects us. We can communicate via smart phones over long distances, but sometimes this same technology seems to separate us from the ones physically close to us. Solitude in year zero is an "update film", shot in Mexico with a smart phone.
Read more »Goodbye Shadowy
Vappu Rossi
New work
A combination of stop-motion animation and time lapse photography, in the pale light of February the viewer sees the shadow of a living and evolving animal mobile. As the light moves, the embryo development of each animal can be seen. Wistful but humorous, the film captures the passage of light during... Read more »
Goodbye Shadowy
Vappu Rossi
New work
Goodbye Shadowy combines stop motion and time lapse animation. In the pale light of February you can see the shadow of a living and evolving animal mobile. As the light moves, the development and growth of different animals can be seen. The wistful but humorous film shows the passage of light during... Read more »