The artist sheltered currant bushes in his garden with a net. Unfortunately, instead of only covering the bushes it was catching birds. Before releasing the bird, the artist was watching it and thought How much harm a human being is causing just by making something in the ordinary, careless way?
Read more »Beginning an Ending
Louis Who? What you should know about Louis Agassiz
Love is a Flowerfield
The incurable “Little Red Riding Hood” meets the Wolf again and the conquest of the forest goes on.
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The Reading Circle
Lullaby
Lullaby is a version of the mother and child -motive, familiar the art history. The mother lies on a bed while the child is playing with her face. The mother growls and shows her fangs, but the child has no fear for her beast mother.
Read more »The Bewitched Child
The Bewitched Child is a fantasy film for both adults and children. The story follows a small boy facing the strange consequences of his thoughtless action and his mean deeds. This dance and music film is based on a miniature opera by Maurice Ravel.
Read more »Luonnotar
Luonnotar is a new interpretation of the Finnish national epoch Kalevala's creation myth. The symphonic poem is composed by Jean Sibelius. The film combines live actors and computer animation.
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A film about the relationship between the man and the nature
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'Nature Film' lists some human characteristics that are regarded as exceptional. These features are carried by the main figure of the film. Strangely enough, his story seems to be quite ordinary.
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A subjective documentary of a young girl studying the behavior of insects; stories and observations of herself and the insects, whilst alternately feeding and killing, nurturing and torturing them.
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A poetic short film about a farmer couple that lives separately. The film is shot with a self-made pinhole camera. Locally fog / mild wind, showers of hail / possible tomorrow / fine weather, ploughs, pension, separator / slight passing / separations.
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Transparent
m
A short documentary film about the meanings in my family album photos and my own memories, which do not always recollect what really took place. “m” is one possible interpretation of the way I see myself and my family history.
Read more »Saving the World
Globe - Encyclopedia
Illustrations from an encyclopedia book series called Globe, published in 1919, combined with film music composed in the same year.
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Landscape (Oja)
Landscape no 20: An Tiaracht, 2002
A dream-like static image of a remote island. The movement in this meditative video is almost non-existent, though one can still hear the waves breaking.
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Filmed in a snowy forest in Northern Finland, “Maja” refers to the painterly composition of the Nordic landscape painting tradition. It investigates an individual’s relation to nature through the characters in the forest, and asks how our surroundings alter us and are altered by us.
Read more »Lying on a Cliff 1 + 2
Part 1. The artist is lying with a yellowish scarf covering her head fourteen times on the rocks on the western shore of Harakka island. Part 2. A yellowish scarf is lying on the rocks on the western shore of Harakka island on the same occasions.
Read more »Make Up Your Mind
A satire about dressing and making oneself up, about the social role plays we have to participate in.
Read more »Masa
The Imaginary Life of Matias Keskinen
Journey
'Journey' consists of 36 consecutive takes, shot every tenth day during one year, at the route of the tram 3T. The days and the times were set beforehand, as well as the amount of the film to be used for each take. The disciplined system brought change into the process too.
Read more »Trip to the Moon
Structuralistic video about plunging into the structures of the surface and on the difficulty of finding the basis. The means: a gradually enlarged print copy of the moon, 16mm film animation and video effects.
Read more »ME/WE, OKAY, GRAY
Mediascape, a journey to a media landscape
A documentary about Helsinki Mediascape multi art project and the young artist generation accomplishing their visions without prejudices, by means of electronic art. A collage and a travelogue of a collective wandering 'in the mediascape' during a six months period.
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