Ellipsis

Marjo Levlin
New work
Ellipsis is a meandrous story where the monologist encounters sculpture like foam animals and a large fond stretched between a bunch of trees in a forest that archers use for target practice. The fond evokes the vision of a forestal movie screen or a theather stage with sculpture animals, making the mute and mysterious... Read more »

The Problem of the Hydra

Maija Tammi
New work

The Problem of the Hydra is an experimental documentary film about the practical and metaphysical problems a small fresh-water polyp, known as Hydra, has caused since the 1700s to the present day. Contrary to most animals, Hydra vulgaris does not age – at all.

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Anywhere But Here

Shubhangi Singh
New work
Anywhere But Here explores the meaning of home while attempting to break away from the ideas of romantic nostalgia nesting within its traditional definitions. In the process, the piece attempts to complicate the understanding of an abode in relation to one’s own developing, pivoting and transitioning identity. The... Read more »

Liquidity

Timo Bredenberg
New work
Liquidity examines the meta-structures and language of economics. It centres around figures of speech and sayings related to the concept of fluidity, which are used to naturalise economic phenomena. The visuality of the work, created with photogrammetry, refers to both the video game Pipe Mania (1989) and J.G.... Read more »

Fog

Aishe Vejdani
New work
A Turkmen woman finds herself wrestling between an unsettling nightmare she had and the reality where she is spending a weekend with her Finn husband in a lake cottage. Reality and nightmare get merged into each other and it’s impossible to separate the two from each other. They become one. This film is an attempt to... Read more »

ᶈenetralia

Anni Puolakka
New work
ᶈenetralia is the story of person whose memory of an early sexual encounter with a jacuzzi is triggered when she moves into a flat that is above an all-male sauna, a popular underground hookup spot in her neighbourhood. Heat, sounds and condensation from the sauna seep into the flat, causing her to birth a swarm of... Read more »

Vanitas

Anni Puolakka
New work
"Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity." (Eccl. 1:2; 12:8) ‘Vanitas’ portrays four idle characters in the future: a singer, a what-naut, a gamer and an office building. Revolving around the characters’ observations, it wonders about the transient and often meaningless... Read more »

Diamond Belly

Anni Puolakka
New work

Diamond Belly explores love and companionship between a human artist, the bot and mosquitoes. The human offers their body as a nourishing 'baguette' to the diamond-bellied mosquitoes, envisioning the flies' bio-chemistry in complementary with their own haematic cycle.

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Reflector of Living Will

Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen
New work

Film tells about Maria, living with arthritis. She doesn’t like the rehabilitative attitude of her new care robot. One night Maria re-programs the robot to fulfill her true needs. The robot becomes her living will and protector against the violent behavior of personal assistants. 

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Canary

Risto-Pekka Blom
New work

Every morning thousands of children go to school like canaries in a coal mine, measuring toxicity. The film deals with the chain of harassment and the way we all are broken in our own ways.

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Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic awarded at MakeDox

Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) won the Sliced Onion Award for the best short documentary film at MakeDox Creative Documentary Film Festival, held from August 19–26 in Macedonia. The Fantastic is a film about encountering the unknown and the relationship between… Read more »

Yo-cha

Salla Myllylä
New work
The installation Yo-cha observes a field visible from an old sports commentators' hut in Joutsa, Central Finland, for nine months. A trail camera is used to record the changing seasons. In the unheated building the weather conditions are also visible on the surface of the window between the camera and the landscape: ice or... Read more »

Haihara

Salla Myllylä
New work
The panoramic video installation follows changing seasons and passers-by in a view opening from the terrace of Haihara manor house in a suburb of Tampere. The view features a birch alley leading down to a lake. Daycare groups, dog owners, cross country skiers, picnickers and joggers pass by. The subject of the video might... Read more »