When the time stood still, there was nothing to be done. The cars driving around the block kept the woman awake. She got up and walked around the flat. Things were as they were, with their meanings, still in the dark. She marked everything with her flashlight and then woke the man up. It was very bright and clear.
Read more »The artist is documenting her emotions while listening to a song that was playing when she eight years earlier heard about the death of her father.
Read more »'Big Bad' portrays a raging woman in a white space. The woman’s feminine figure contrasts sharply with her childlike or bestial expression, the total lose of control.
Read more »A rock in the landscape on Harakka island filmed 13 times during a day and a night, with two-hour intervals, during Easter, April 20 noon to April 21 noon 2003.
Read more »I am sitting with a red scarf on my shoulders on a birch tree trunk in Koivumäki, Kalvola, 48 times approximately at noon on Sundays 22.5.2005 – 14.5.2006.
Read more »A short western about the fear of the unknown.
Read more »'Up and About Again' is moved by motion and laid back in the outback. A car covered in thick snow drives across the dreamlike summer landscapes. Something has turned the everyday upside down. Fear is hidden.
Read more »A western about masculinity and cowardice...
“Johnny! Whyyyy!!!?”
I keep repeating slogans from TV commercials to the camera. Sad and oppressing music roars in the background. Every now and then the rhythm of the images is broken by an image of a catastrophe.
Read more »“Swan Song” examines the experience of interaction and isolation. The main characters are two swans setting up a family. But one of their nestlings is left behind. How will it survive alone in the world? “Swan Song” is a prologue to the fairy tale “The Ugly Duckling”.
Read more »'Juliet' is a fictional story based on discussions with single women over the age of 35-years. Most of them had strong feelings of failure. Many felt anguished without a relationship, overcome by the flood of images of happy families and couples that media pours onto us.
Read more »'Juliet' is a fictional story based on discussions with single women over the age of 35-years. Most of them had strong feelings of failure. Many felt anguished without a relationship, overcome by the flood of images of happy families and couples that media pours onto us.
Read more »'Juliet' is a fictional story based on discussions with single women over the age of 35-years. Most of them had strong feelings of failure. Many felt anguished without a relationship, overcome by the flood of images of happy families and couples that media pours onto us.
Read more »The letters of Aino and Allan Rusinen were hidden under the floor of an old house. More than fifty years later their children rewrote the letters on the basis of their own memories and visions. The original letters are still missing.
Read more »The Vanishing Scheme is a fragmented story about power games in a relationship. The dreamlike scenes show a woman in her bedroom. Some sporty men appear in the room. The playful encountering changes into a violent act. In the end the woman surprises the men.
Read more »All the policemen is a conceptual 'one idea film', which comments on Ronald Reagan's visit to Helsinki in 1988. Made by perforating star shaped holes into black 35 mm leader, this work explores multitude, quantity and duration.
Read more »Still photographs from the exhibition "Kaipuu" combined with nature film footage.
Read more »'Well” is an experimental animation, a bubbling plunge into the deep waters of subconscious, from where forgotten memories rise to the surface and into the consciousness.
Read more »The video is about a space made up of two rooms and a kitchen, and about a child who explores the space. At the start, the child is a newborn baby, and at the end, almost three years old. His growing makes the passage of time visible.
Read more »Two Pictures recounts how two paintings were created. It's based on my memory and how I've explained the events to myself for years. Things probably happened differently because I remember my own stories rather than what really happened.
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