The film could be called a kind of anti-film. It’s an experimental, wallpaper-like piece. One can watch it, but there is no story, nor a message or one particular idea. It cannot fail, because it cannot succeed.
Read more »A short trailer for the feature “Film 1999”. The piece could be called a kind of anti-film. It’s an experimental, wallpaper-like piece. One can watch it, but there is no story, nor a message or an idea. It cannot fail, because it cannot succeed.
Read more »Women in hijab acquaint themselves with Finnish history by visiting three historical monuments in Helsinki: the Suomenlinna Fortress (representing the time of Swedish rule over Finland), the Helsinki Cathedral (representing the Russian rule), and the Sibelius monument (the modern times).
Read more »An amateur set of images, an attempt to make a political documentary about the middle class revolution turns into an essay on the relationship between perception and interest.
Read more »A moment of human life at the stage where it is still vague where 'the self' ends and 'the others' begin.
Read more »A film performance shot in a studio on 16 mm film. The work is an attempt to be still and to find still life qualities within a moving image. A woman is pushed onto a bed where she lies motionless. This is repeated five times.
Read more »Are you longing away? Have a flight exercise with a warm-up. Flying in your dreams is easy. But in the everyday life one can only practise and imitate the birds in the harbour.
Read more »The film is shot with a self-made pinhole camera, which exposes simultaneously 528 frames. When they are shown as a moving image they create a feeling of moving around a frozen subject. The time slice technique separates the movement and the time. In Flirt we see people having a fight.
Read more »'Floating' is about the feeling of being detached. The subject is treated on three levels: separating the sound from the location, through specially developed camerawork, and through the content of the speech heard on the soundtrack.
Read more »In 'Focal Point', a woman walks and talks to herself. It seems like she was talking to an invisible counterpart, perhaps an enemy of some kind. The text is based on the censored parts from the 'Unknown Soldier' (1954), a war novel by Väinö Linna.
Read more »A wintery episode on a wooden bridge in Helsinki.
Read more »'Fredrikinkatu' is a portrait of a street located in the Helsinki city center. The images are shot following the 'pars pro toto' principle (a part stands for the whole). On the soundtrack you hear an audio cross-section from one end of the street to the other. The video is edited straight in the camera.
Read more »“Fritsut eli Lovebites” is a lovebite animation, a kind of rite for expressing love.
Read more »An abstract piece with crossing black and white lines and minimalistic music.
Read more »The artist is sitting next to or on the steaming earth in three different places in Furnas on the Azores in February 2010.
Read more »'Gaddaf’s Daughter' is a video-EP by a fictional world music band.
Read more »In the work shot in northern Italy, fog clouds alternately cover and reveal the mountain slopes behind them. Somewhere afar – out of sight – cows are grazing and their bells create a soundscape similar to that of a gamelan ensemble.
Read more »The artist-characters in the film set themselves unwillingly into roles they suppose others expect from them.
Read more »A video about people at a gig. Instead of the onstage performance, the focus is on the audience members posing and observing each other.
Read more »Dance animation starring a female birch. The film draws a parallel between the natural forces and sexuality. Tuomo Puranen’s music gives the rythm.
Read more »A bridge has only two ways to go. Back and forth. Watching the bidirectional simplicity of a rural Indian bridge is an intriguing experience.
Read more »'Good Will' – when being helpful gets you in a bind. The doll animation happens in a world without borders. The short story borrows elements from fairy tales and Greek and Christian myths. 'Good Will' is the first part in an animation series of the same name.
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