Oblivion

Marjo Levlin
New work
The film Oblivion -O Blif Igen tells about late 19th century migration from Finland to the United States. It is also a journey from the village of my youth, Malax, in Swedish-speaking Ostrobothnia, to California and Colorado. It is telling about dreams of a better life somewhere else, about memory and how very soon... Read more »

All the World a Longing

Rita Jokiranta
New work

An afternoon by the ocean once when winter turns to spring. The eternal breaking of the waves. Sea foam predicting something unwelcome. Migratory birds passing quickly. The image losing details like memories which slowly fade.

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(Self)Portrait

Jenni Toikka
New work

Color fields unfold as a female figure weaves her way amongst them. Changing viewpoints together with her gestures create order around the fields. The seemingly random pieces slot into place while the rhythms of sound, movement and gaze give shape to a space they all share. Installation version also available.

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At Kilpisjärvi

Axel Straschnoy
New work

We follow two cameramen who are working to record the Northern Lights on video, as they walk through the tundra in order to get away from any artificial lights. They look for the best spot to capture the Northern Lights. We experience the simple issues of their everyday life.

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A Shipwreck

Sara Pathirane
New work
A Shipwreck is an installation that consists of a video projection which reflects from the screen onto a transparent surface on the floor, and a live performance by the artist. The installation may also be presented as a projection without the performance. The work investigates what happens to an image when it is... Read more »

Scarabée

Sara Pathirane
New work
Scarabée is a video-performance shot and performed in the Sahara desert in 2013. The scarab rolls a dung ball as its daily rutine. In the Egyptian mytology, the holy scarabaeus rolls the sun. In Scarabée, the scarab turns and opens up the view of the Sahara desert. The action is an attempt to open up pictorial... Read more »

Carbon Based Live

Vappu Rossi
New work
Dancer Ingrid André performs a live version of the choreography from the original artwork Carbon Based Love in which a dancer meets with a charcoal wall drawing. The music is composed by Milla Viljamaa and the drawing is by the artist herself, done as part of her solo show Days of the Ice Bird at MUU Gallery,... Read more »

The Suburb Within

Pekka Sassi
New work

A film about communication, narration and presence. "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That's why it's called present."

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Bolts from the Blue

Pasi Sleeping Myllymäki
New work

"Sleeping" Myllymäki and his big brother Kimmo made an extremely short comedy where a swimmer is surprised by lightning.

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Mä oon stadista

Pasi Sleeping Myllymäki
New work

An intense music video for Sleeping & the Beds, featuring the fresh faces of the 1980s subculture.

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Niagara-ilmiö

Pasi Sleeping Myllymäki
New work

The footage from Niagara Falls, shot by Myllymäki's partner Legenda Laakkonen, is accompanied by Myllymäki's voice-over lamenting over the vanishing forms of Finnish idiotism.

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Adaptation

Jenni Toikka
New work

Adaptation examines the moving image and narrative as a tense puzzle. The layers of time conflate in a masterful manner, keeping the story afloat. The functional lines of the architecture, the female actor dressed in red and her double all create a simulacra that gradually opens in various direction.

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The Marriage

Vappu Rossi
New work

In a framed double portrait, spouses slowly turn into one another – and back. The change is gradual, almost imperceptible at first glance.

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The Cage

Johanna Lecklin
New work

The Cage deals with a memory of a horrible childhood experience. A woman tells about a childhood bullying incident that she has not forgiven. She meets her bully when she is adult but does not want to see that the other has changed. The story is told in backflashes.

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To Melt (Installation)

Minna Långström
New work
Is it possible to not repeat history? Somewhere in time a person carries a package, then drops it to the ground with a crash. Someone else explores the content of the box. The story is repeated in what first appears to be an endless loop. The... Read more »

Attraction

Miia Rinne
New work
Attraction is the third work in the series of films that combines hand painting on 35 mm film and its digital post-production. In this series, each new work is painted as a new layer upon earlier works. Like episodes in human life, old works trail off when new ones emerge on the surface. This method of using the old as... Read more »