Year of the Rat – Mermaid 1-2

Annette Arlander
New work
1. (right) With a lilac scarf on her shoulders, the artist sits on a rock on the Northern shore of Harakka Island approximately once a week before sunset between 26th January 2008 and 24th January 2009.  2. (left) The artist sits on the rock further from the camera during the same... Read more »

Year of the Rat – Uphill - Downhill

Annette Arlander
New work

1. (left) With a lilac scarf on her shoulders, the artist walks down the steps on the Northern shore of Harakka Island approximately once a week before sunset between 26th January 2008 and 24th January 2009. 2. (right) The artist walks up the steps during the same times.

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Year of the Tiger

Annette Arlander
New work
Wrapped in a white shawl, the artist lies on the remains of the stone base of a building on Harakka Island once a week for a year from the 14th February 2010 to the 31st January 2011. Part 1. in the northeastern corner. Part 2. in the southeastern corner. Part 3. in the southwestern corner. Part 4. in the northwestern... Read more »

Year of the Tiger 1-2 (long)

Annette Arlander
New work

Wrapped in a white shawl, the artist walks and lies down on the remains of the stone base of a building on Harakka Island once a week for a year from 14th February 2010 to 31st January 2011. Part 1. With the camera in the East facing West. Part 2. With the camera in the South facing North.

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Single Tent

Juha Mäki-Jussila
New work

A portrait of an isolated man who has withdrawn in his tent. He seems to be quite satisfied in there. But one day something penetrates into his little world.

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You Go Where You’re Sent

Laura Horelli
New work
The starting point of You Go Where You’re Sent is the director’s grandmother’s participation in the Berlin Olympics in 1936 as a member of the Finnish women’s gymnastic team. The conversation is based on her photo albums. After the war, the grandmother served her nation as a diplomat's wife. She... Read more »

You Kill Me

Sari Tervaniemi
New work
'You Kill Me' is a love story dressed as a vampire tale. The short film is at the same time both playful and sad. It reports on mental violence inherent in the refusal to communicate. The locations are romantic, like The Smiths’ rock videos from the 1980s. There is no dialogue but the soundtrack has a physical... Read more »

You Know We Got Some Rules Here

Marcus Lerviks
New work
Video and sound installation across two rooms. In each room, there is a monitor and a speaker, each monitor showing a 30-minute video loop of a person walking from room to room. The footage has been filmed in the gallery prior to the exhibition. The soundtrack consists of directions to the audience on how... Read more »

Your Songs Take Me To A Place I've Never Been

Johanna Lecklin
New work
Three people sing an especially composed song in which the lyrics have been based on fan letters meant for the late musician Nike Drake. The visuals are a reference to a series of photographs of Drake himself standing in front of a brick wall as people pass him by. Your Songs Transport Me to A Place I've... Read more »

My Friend and Her Boyfriend

Marjatta Oja
New work

The installation of My friend and her boyfriend consists of looping video projections, fluorescent text and UV light. The installation reflects on dream as an element of real encounters and human relations. 

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Night Train

Juha Mäki-Jussila
New work

In the semi-abstract, experimental animation, something unusual happens during a train journey through a dark landscape.

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Zone

Marika Orenius
New work
'Zone' investigates different public spheres in Glasgow and the mental states they represent. The locations of the video are a football stadium, a shopping center, a disco and a church. Light has an important role in 'Zone', also in a philosophical sense, for it comments on the way we live today. Natural light was once... Read more »

ZOO

Salla Tykkä
New work
A woman photographs zoo cages. The animals stare back, following her with their eyes. The voyeur and the object change places. The woman plunges into deep water where a game of violent underwater rugby is taking place. She returns to the surface to breathe, but the stares and the camera's viewfinder block her escape route. In... Read more »

Zoom

Juha van Ingen
New work

Zoom is a video about speed, distance and perspective. It is shot from a deck of a ship. The camera zooms into the waves generated by the ship. The speed of the ship seems to change as the camera zooms closer and the waves start to dissolve into an abstract animation.

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Suddenly, Last Summer

Juha Mäki-Jussila
New work

Suddenly, Last Summer is an experimental animation based freely on the play of the same title by Tennesee Willams. Some fragments of the original play are restaged frame by frame by new botanical performers.

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Whispering in a Friend's Mouth

Hannaleena Hauru
New work

Two friends painting a graffiti on a shop window in their home village in central Finland have ended up kissing. The experimental short film, which juxtaposes events happening in two different times, examines the border between platonic and romantic love.

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Finitudes

Kari Yli-Annala
New work

A view from the window of an airplane shows the relation between the worlds and the chaotic substance of which the worlds are made of. The clouds lose their shape on the edge of the window and make a reappearance in the reflection. In the end we get clumsy and stumble down, out of the worlds.

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