Helsinki Shipyard / Port San Juan

Laura Horelli
New work
Helsinki Shipyard / Port San Juan consists of two parts – the first is filmed in a Finnish shipyard specialized in building of cruise ships and the second is shot from the standpoint of operating cruise ships at the port-of-call in Puerto Rico. Interviews were conducted with nearly 60 people who earn their living from... Read more »

Ephemeral

Vappu Rossi
New work

A painted apparition of a hundred-year-old wedding photo emerges on a steamed window. Just as the figures begin to stand out, they are already fading away. The animation deals with our attempts to hold onto memories and in spite of their inherent ephemerality.

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Ephemeral (screening version)

Vappu Rossi
New work

A painted apparition of a hundred-year-old wedding photo emerges on a steamed window. Just as the figures start to stand out, they already fade away. The media art animation deals with ephimerality and keeping up a memory.

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Year of the Horse (Sitting on a Rock)

Annette Arlander
New work
Part 1. I am standing with a blue scarf on my shoulders close to the camera, blocking part of the view from the cliff, on Harakka Island, 64 times, approximately once a week from January 2002 to January 2003.Part 2. I am sitting with a blue scarf on my shoulders on a rock in the landscape below the cliff, 64 times, on... Read more »

Year of the Horse – Day and Night of the Goat (installation)

Annette Arlander
New work
Year of the Horse (left image): Part 1. The artist is standing with a blue scarf on her shoulders close to the camera, blocking part of the view from the cliff, on Harakka Island, 64 times, approximately once a week from January 2002 to January 2003. Part 2. The artist is sitting with a blue scarf on her... Read more »

High Tide Island

Pekka Sassi
New work

High Tide Island was shot with a digital still-camera that captures video signal for 15 frames per second. This results in the film-like quality of the image. The video has been shot in the artist's living room and at the backyard in Vuosaari, a neighbourhood that can be translated as "High Tide Island".

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Elevator solo

Teemu Mäki
New work
'Elevator solo' and 'Another elevator solo' are collaborations with two dancers, Pia Karaspuro and Päivi Rissanen. This is a study of seemingly non-virtuosic movement in a small space. The video is shot without any camera movements. The separately shot dancers were superimposed together while editing and therefore they appear... Read more »

Another elevator solo

Teemu Mäki
New work
'Elevator solo' and 'Another elevator solo' are collaborations with two dancers, Pia Karaspuro and Päivi Rissanen. This is a study of seemingly non-virtuosic movement in a small space. The video is shot without any camera movements. The separately shot dancers were superimposed together while editing and therefore they appear... Read more »

Hit

Minna Suoniemi
New work

In 'Hit', the artist asked someone to hit her in the face. The slow motion image reveals every hint of a facial expression. The slowed-down sound resembles the sound of a tennis match.

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Home Is a Poem.

Jaana Kokko
New work

“Home Is a Poem” bears resemblance to a home video: it has been shot hand-held and with an extra microphone. The selected and edited material is a collage of various narrative styles: a guided tour, a performance, an interpretation, and a monologue.

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Pines

Sami van Ingen
New work
A 'one roll' film documenting the national shrine - the Sibelius monument. Read more »

Huima

Santtu Koivu
New work

A good-humoured depiction of a peaceful summer's day and a small boy's eager attempt at spinning around without collapsing. The infectiously carefree spirit makes everything else disappear.

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Tomorrow

Johanna Lecklin
New work

A young girl does not understand what tomorrow means. She asks her father, then stays awake past midnight, learning that tomorrow can never be seen. The story is based on a French woman's childhood memory recorded at the Story Cafe event in Helsinki.

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The Room

Milja Viita
New work

Video deals with memory and narration. It tells a story about a room in an abandoned old people's home. The narrator is trying to remember the past of a particular room, how it was furnished, the life of the person who lived there and the exterior of the building.

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Room (by Elina Saloranta)

Elina Saloranta
New work
The video work records the changes that took place in a bedroom after the death of a woman who lived there. The work begins with the text: “After the mother died, it took six months to sell the flat. The daughter went there once a week to have a cup of coffee.” Slowly changing images follow. The first... Read more »

Sweethearts

Heta Kuchka
New work
A young woman tells her secrets concerning men to the viewer as if he/she would be her best friend. Read more »

Remedies

Sasha Huber
New work
Cultures are filled with methods of self-help and medical healing. When it comes to health, we rarely use our common sense and environmental awareness to make second guesses. Regardless of whether the methods actually work or not, they contain strands of cultural knowledge that celebrate a heritage. Perhaps people’s... Read more »

Smiling

Maria Ylikoski
New work
A woman is trying to smile. It is said that one can recognize the real smile from the wrinkles around the eyes. The scientists claim that the microexpressions can tell us whether a person is lying or not. However, in order to be desirable, to manage in social situations and to give a positive impression, women have to... Read more »

Good Stuff

Niina Suominen
New work

In this game one person's loss isn't another's gain – everyone loses. In the world of losers different laws prevail and there is always plenty of good stuff around. All the food used for the animation was collected from bins.

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Fade Away

Denise Ziegler
New work

Sometimes at twilight the co-operation of my eyes and brain changes. My gaze wanders without purpose and my brain picks up only a part of the sights. My eyes and my brain seem to work independently of each other. So my interest for surrounding events decreases and images seem flat, two-dimensional. I find this relaxing.

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Hönö

Denise Ziegler
New work
From the Swedish mainland a ferry takes you to the Hönö island. The artist made a trip to the island because of the special name that has a meaning both in Swedish and in Finnish: it signifies 'hen island' in Swedish and 'tipsy' in Finnish. On the soundtrack there is a peculiar message left in the artist's... Read more »

I Love JaNY

Sasha Huber
New work
'I love JaNY' is a portrait of Jany Tomba, the artistʼs aunt, who at an early age, in the 1960s, experienced what it is like to emigrate with her family from the dictatorship in Haiti to New York. Ever since Sasha was a child, she has been fascinated and inspired by Jany's life. Huber was curious to find out what... Read more »

I Love My Job

Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen Tellervo Kalleinen
New work

The filmmakers invited employees in Göteborg and Helsinki to describe conflicted situations in their work places – and invent a fictional ending to the events, including both hopeful scenarios and revenge fantasies.

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