In Memoriam

Niina Suominen
New work

In Memoriam is a stop-motion animation about the human ephimerality. Images of the desolate building combined with the soundscape of an auction form a meditation on what will be left behind when we have left the stage. Abandoned buildings and their spirits are in the main role.

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Four Lessons in Anatomy

Kaisu Koski
New work
The work explores the visual culture of medicine and the role of drawings in anatomy teaching. The medical students and teachers of the University of Alberta draw on paper the visual parameters of skin, heart, lung, bones, and female reproductive organs. The lessons are personal forms of expression that contrast with... Read more »

Drifted

Maria Ångerman
New work

A woman is sitting by a dinner table with two cups in front of her. She looks like she is waiting for someone. Or is she? Sometimes it can be difficult to separate imagination from reality and the present from the past.

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Sea

Miia Rinne
New work
Sea is the second part of a series of film paintings, where new works are painted upon earlier ones, reusing the same celluloid as the substrate. Embodied by the same corporeal material, these paintings build upon each other like different episodes in the life of a human being. In this way, a series... Read more »

Nälkämaan laulun uudet säkeet

Anne Siirtola
New work
The starting point of the work is “the Song of a Hungry Land” – the provincial anthem of the Kainuu region in northern Finland. I invited immigrants in the Kainuu capital of Kajaani to update the song and sing their interpretations. The ensuing five stories describe homesickness and difficult journeys to... Read more »

In the Garden

Anne Siirtola
New work
Videoteoksessa puutarha näyttäytyy mielen ja ruumiin metaforana. Taiteilija on kuvannut tapahtumia keväästä myöhäissyksyyn: huolenpitoa, kitkemistä, tuholaisia. Puutarha paljastaa eri puolia itsestään, lempeän ja kukoistavan, mutta myös julman ja... Read more »

Home and Country

Carl Sebastian Lindberg
New work

Home and Country is based on interviews with the author Ann-Mari Lindberg (b. 1934). The work portrays the major events of the Second World War in Finland through her everyday experiences as a child. It also recounts how these experiences have influeced the values of her generation.

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Heijastus

Juhani Koivumäki
New work

This experimental film simulates how a newborn child perceives the world. The child has not yet absorbed the adult's constructed ideas of the surrounding environment, nor made the the distinction between self and the other. 

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Archipelago Science Fiction

Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen Tellervo Kalleinen
New work
Archipelago Science Fiction is a unique short film about the community of the Turku archipelago located in the Baltic Sea. The habitants of the villages star in four hilarious and sometimes chilling future scenarios scripted by themselves based on their hopes and fears. The visions seem dauntingly realistic and universal... Read more »

Gravity Monster

Heini Aho
New work
Gravity monster is a video of a white scarf that has been charged by static electricity. A hand coming down from above feeds pieces of wool to the "hungry" scarf. The scarf moves towards the hand until it becomes electric enough. The hand continues as long as the scarf has the strength to hold the threads.... Read more »

1+1+1 – Sympathy for the Decay

Ilppo Pohjola
New work

1 Plus 1 Plus 1 – Sympathy for the Decay is an abstract expressionist film, which explores the manipulation of reality-based content and documentary material by adapting the conventions of experimental film and repetition in minimalist music to stretch the limits of narrativity and representation.

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The End of Landscape

Marko Lampisuo
New work
In The End of Landscape, an old video camera takes its very last pictures. It records the view from a train window, the sunset and the light playing on the trees. From a television screen, the camera re-shoots the videos it shot previously. The audience witnesses disintegrating landscapes and electrical... Read more »

Airs Above the Ground

Salla Tykkä
New work
The Lipizzan horse is considered to be the oldest extant cultural breed in Europe. The breed dates back to the 16th century when it was created with the support of the Habsburg monarchy. Lipizzan horses were bred to perform the purest form of classical riding, the High School dressage. The finest representatives of... Read more »

Victoria

Salla Tykkä
New work

In the short film Victoria, a nightly blossoming of the giant water lily is depicted. The plant tells the story of European colonialism in the 19th century and hides within its beauty the human need for power and domination.

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Butterfly's Effect

Anssi Kasitonni
New work

A single butterfly causes a chain reaction in this animated narrative about the absence of destiny. The story also contains a life-saving miracle that is left unnoticed by the person who was saved.

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Aurinkokellari

Sami Sänpäkkilä
New work

A mystic creature is removing people one by one from the realm of life. Enigmatic events are set in a snowy arctic and in a mysterious cave-like cellar. There is still glimpses of surprising warm humor typical of Sami Sänpäkkilä’s oeuvre. 

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21st Century Portrait

Sami Sänpäkkilä
New work

Three-channel installation of three portraits, each consisting of over 1500 pictures taken in extreme close-up. They cover the entire naked body of the subject, shown as a one-minute endless loop.

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The Big Crunch

Sami Sänpäkkilä
New work
The imagery of the installation The Big Crunch communicates the presence of humans on earth, evolution and human intelligence. All images are carefully arranged according to the divine proportions. We see images that represent poetically and metaphorically the beginning of mathematical innovations to the... Read more »

Kubistisia kukkia liikkeessä

Sami Sänpäkkilä
New work
A dance edited into flowers. The hands start at the beginning alongside Mozart. In the second part, the feet join in too and, finally, in the third sequence, the whole body emerges. A girl dancing in a black universe breaks the rules of dance and creates her own. Choreographies have been first created for... Read more »

Critical Review of Icelandic Power Structures

Nina Lassila
New work
Performance during the Reykjavik Arts Festival May 2008 Baejarins Bestu Hot Dog Stand Friday May 23rd 2008. This work is based on articles about the ”new” icelandic finance scene, that claim i.e that the youngsters of Iceland these days wish to become rockstars rather than businessmen. Wearing a Groucho Marx... Read more »

Albedo Logger

Mari Keski-Korsu
New work

Albedo suits are designed to increase the sunlight reflectivity and the amount of albedo in the forests, which aims at cooling the climate and mitigating the climate change. They play with the idea of DIY geoengineering  This particular movie presents a prototype for logger's albedo suit.

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Dead Burning City

Tommi Matikka
New work
This is not a superhero movie. This is a movie about human being. A Hero loved by the whole city is crying. It all begins when an apparently ordinary night has come to an end and the hero returns home unnoticeable, like always. After taken a glimpse of yesterday's news about himself, he falls asleep. The hero awakes to... Read more »

Small Heroes

Tommi Matikka
New work

Animated superheroes are running, bouncing and flying over the rooftops of Dakar like in a platformer video game. They are not in control of their skills, and each time they take off, they end up falling all the way to the ground. The soundtrack imitates the sounds of classic video games.

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Coriolis

Milja Viita
New work
Coriolis is a poetic documentary about identical twins, Marthe and Martine, who are separated by the world. A caregiver of the elderly, Martine currently lives in Helsinki, while Marthe, who works as a dressmaker, still lives in their native country, Togo. The two sisters come from a region... Read more »

Clara S. Was Here

Nina Lassila
New work

The video footage shows us different acts of a woman becoming a cat-like person, exotic, wild and free. A character called Clara Sturm buys a leopard statue and wants to write a story or even a manuscript about it. A voice-over describes her thoughts and feelings during the process.

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Hiihtoloop

Aimo Hyvärinen
New work
Snow and ice are the key elements of Finnish life in the winter. They have transformed the way we live, move and enjoy nature for thousands of years. The artist's relationship with skiing was recovered as a nostalgic rein­vention after having two sons (born in 2000 and 2006) and taking part in their skiing explorations.... Read more »