Breath
Fanni Niemi-Junkola
New work
Secret Words and Related Stories
Jonna Kina
New work
The video piece is composed of anonymously collected passwords and stories behind them, read by young actors between 12 and 16 years old. Each of them stands in front of a red backdrop and reads from a single sheet of paper personal confessions, childhood memories and clichéd rationalities. These are thoughtful,... Read more »
Hate Speech
Juhani Koivumäki
New work
An audiovisual poem on the nature of hate speech.
Read more »Did van Gogh Get Laid Because of His Paintings?
Nina Lassila
New work
Remedies - Remedies
Petri Saarikko Sasha Huber
New work
The Australian edition of Remedies casted Mildura natives to contribute eucalyptus tree related unwritten narratives and oral histories for an individual and collective portraiture. Earth bound clay object-action cements the liminal stories and realities around the complex legacy of postcolonial wake into a collective stem.... Read more »
Remedies - Rongoã
Petri Saarikko Sasha Huber
New work
There is a long tradition for various methods for healing – the individual, the collective, society or nature. Artists Huber and Saarikko choreographed this performance or video action during a residency in Wellington, New Zealand, much inspired by the local Maori culture, but also by the imminent threat of nature... Read more »
Remedies - Remède
Petri Saarikko Sasha Huber
New work
Remède - Remedies is a collective problem/solution performance combining personal beliefs related to health and well-being. Each participant was invited to contribute a causal remedy to a common dilemma — be it a disease, nuisance or spiritual misfortune. Remedies can range from a natural healing techniques to... Read more »
Maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there
Johanna Lecklin
New work
The piece is a portrait of a narcissist. His boss and colleagues admire him and his ex-wife, mistress and girlfriend tell their view of him. The film consists of monologues performed in the form of tableau vivants that refer to art historical compositions. A possible crime story is built up by the testimonies of the people... Read more »
Swing
Salla Myllylä
New work
In the beginning we see an ordinary garden swing. A hand paints out the background of the swing with white paint. Light plays on the surface of the painting, rain washes it away. In the end, a secret is revealed.
Read more »Set free
Salla Myllylä
New work
The video consists of five one-minute episodes. In each of them an everyday object – a plant, a piece of furniture, a vehicle – is ”freed from its environment” by painting or scratching a mask. For a moment the result looks like a still life, but something always fails: the season changes, the ship... Read more »
Jonne 59 Summer Holiday
Anneli Nygren
New work
Rockstar Jonne 59 finds a way to increase the demand for his gigs. Instead of doing the U.S. tour, he is hiding in his summer cottage. But a good manager does what the star needs, not what he tells to do.
Read more »Friendzone
Anneli Nygren
New work
Jonne 59 is a male rockstar and Anneli Nygren's performance character who has done live performances and music videos since 2012. In Friendzone, Jonne adopts a word familiar in youth language and tries to seduce a schoolgirl.
Read more »Social Connection
Jan Ijäs
New work
The film's dialogue has been copied from online forums as is, with no editing. Many times these "faceless" online conversations end up to a very surreal limbo.
Read more »Overlook
Pink Twins
New work
Impossible architecture, an ancient burial ground and a lure for psychotic janitors were the building blocks of Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. In this story vignette, chaos animators Pink Twins add zero gravity and a rupture in space-time continuum to the mix and serve a taster of subtle cosmic... Read more »
With colour - with sound
Petteri Cederberg
New work
The stop motion animation is the artist’s personal attempt to portray infinity “with colour – with sound”. The concept of infinity is both fascinating and frustrating. How can something be infinite? Is there something beyond infinite? Infinity can be approached with imagination or mathematics –... Read more »
Jokinen
Laura Horelli
New work
The film tells the migration story of a Finnish communist August Jokinen. He became known for a show trial against racism organized by the American Communist Party in Harlem, NY in 1931. The USA immigration authorities arrested Jokinen soon after, and he was deported and moved to Petrozavodsk, USSR in 1933.
Read more »Fallout
Timo Wright
New work
A friend once said: When you are young, you think that the world ends when love ends, but when you become older, you realise that unfortunately the world does not end. This film is about the end of love and the end of the world.
Read more »Embrace
Timo Wright
New work
An abandoned house, furniture strewn around, discarded. Slowly, a red smoke starts to pour in through the doors. Eventually the whole house is engulfed with the smoke that hides everything from our sight.
Read more »My Portable Room
Pasi Autio
New work
The work depicts an empty room. A window in the room opens to a number of alternating seaside sceneries. In one of these, a young girl walks towards the room and illuminates a piece of crystal in front of the window with a flashlight. The light is refracted and reflected onto the walls of the room which is revealed to be a... Read more »
Dark Gleam
Pasi Autio
New work
White lines, flashes and grains that occasionally resemble the shimmering of water move gleamingly across a black screen. The image alternates between the abstract and the familiar; static, the dance of grainy film, and the movement of water. The soundtrack includes the gurgle and splashing of water and similar... Read more »
Dark Creature
Pasi Autio
New work
The work depicts a frontal image of the face of an old woman. Her facial features grow animalistic and creature-like as the lighting begins to fade. Finally, her face disappears completely apart from two shimmering points of light that are reflected in her eyes. After a while, the light grows brighter and the face returns,... Read more »
Duet
Pasi Autio
New work
The work depicts the face of a middle-aged man. A moving upside-down image of the face of a younger man in a seaside setting is reflected over and next to the first face. The two engage in a brief conversation about their relationship. They also switch places on the screen during their conversation.
Read more »The Call to Order
Axel Straschnoy
New work
Le rappel à l'ordre is a film about the packing, storage, and transportation of works of art. It shows works packed into boxes, taken out of boxes, boxes being placed on trucks, works being hanged, works being stored.
Read more »The Tide in Kan Tiang
Annette Arlander
New work
A small tree grows in a rocky cove near Kan Tiang beach on the Island of Koh Lanta in Thailand. On one of the last days of the year 2015 I stand next to it for a day with two hour intervals in order to experience the tide together with it.
Read more »Bridge Over Troubled Water
Jaakko Pallasvuo
New work
It's 1967, 2015, 2515, 10000 AD. Simon and Garfunkel are travelling through time. Seeking an answer to their growing sadness and anxiety, brought on partly by the slowly overwhelming presence and existential treath of the climate change, they head to the coast, are incarcerated, visit the botanical garden in Turku, and... Read more »
Encounter
Katarzyna Miron Ewa Gorzna
New work
Encounter is a short film reflecting on the human desire to approach, understand and experience an animal in the wilderness. It depicts an unusual situation where the animal is the observer and the human is being observed. The work is a collaboration between Ewa Górzna and Katarzyna Miron.
Read more »The Long Goodbye
Niina Lehtonen Braun Tellervo Kalleinen
New work
JOKAklubi's video work is inspired by the instrumental piece The Long Goodbye by Karl Jonas Winqvist & Blood Music. The video and the soundtrack share the same intense feeling of a never-ending journey and changing landscapes. Three figures in blue search for ingredients and materials from all the possible and... Read more »
Horizontal Dance
Minna Suoniemi
New work
Leopard-covered legs into limbs of living flesh, trying to hang in there, to exist through human body. Animal in disguise, or human dressed to allow the animal to emerge. A hypnotic opening, beat boxing mouth, partying puma. This body, this bodily existence, have it, own it, want it, move it. Move.
Read more »”We Are the Revolution”, after Joseph Beuys – Making of: Walking in Krasny Bor forest, Karelia, Russia
Jari Silomäki
New work
In the video, the artist visits the scenes for the major political murders of the 20th century and takes as many steps as there were victims in each tragedy. The video depicts the inevitable human loneliness before significant events and comments on the rhetoric emerged from the industrial revolution: are the quantity and... Read more »
Implicated
Heidi Kilpeläinen
New work
‘Implicated’ comments on the social ills and inequality of our time. The video is a performative portrait of the malaise and wrath caused by frustration. The sounds of the video images with different paces form a rhythmic composition, a raging performance, that brings the frustration to the audience almost as a... Read more »