Wrapped in a dark blue scarf I am standing on the ice on Lake Kilpis looking at Malla Fell for a day with two-hour intervals between 7 am and 9 pm on 7 April 2014. In the voice over I wonder how to be there with Malla.
Read more »Broad Sense by Pilvi Takala has been selected to Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur through AV-arkki’s distribution. Event: Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, program “The Ways of (Dis)Organisation” Dates of the event: 4.-9.11.2014 Website: www.kurzfilmtage.ch City: Winterthur Country: Switzerland Curator: Laura Walde Twitter: #KurzfilmtageWIN… Read more »
My Father always put it this way: "Too Light for Heavy Work, too Heavy for Light Work."
Read more »The dancer meets a large drawing in a partly animated choreography. Created in collaboration with musician Milla Viljamaa and the Belgian-born dancer-choreographer Ingrid André, the work is a dramatic yet humorous take on encountering and longing.
Read more »The women working in a Finnish unemployment office have a secret club, where they give sex out of pity to outcast young men in order to prevent future school shootings. Mirja (35) tries to hide that after spending a night with unemployed Marko (19), she has fallen in love. Saving Finland is at stake.
Read more »In a framed double portrait, a couple slowly turns into one another, and then back. The change is gradual, almost imperceptible at first glance.
Read more »Using a mirror and stop-motion technique, the film portrays life as a wearing round game. The candles are burned from both ends with an accelerating tempo.
Read more »"Every film ever made is much better than all the unmade films", declares Myllymäki. An ode for diy-nonsense.
Read more »A black hooded man is sitting on a bench and reaches out to a young birch with an extreme slowness. One can hear the distant hum of a glassworks. A sped up film about a slow and minimalist movement.
Read more »Shot with stop-motion technique, the film shows a vigorous and playful dance around the bus stop.
Read more »Surrealism scratched on the film. Reckless speeding in the snow. Made by "Luigi Punueli" and "Samuel Tallow".
Read more »A yellow "Pony" bike takes you surprisingly far in the underground travel film accompanied by noise from a shortwave radio receiver.
Read more »How narrow are the Finnish narrow film circles? Pasi Myllymäki reveals their wholesale censorship in this fierce short film with punk rock intermissions.
Read more »One of Myllymäki's most minimalistic classics. A stop-motion animation consisting of the front grilles of different cars, shot in the parking lots of local supermarkets. The 13-second sequence keeps looping while the ticking sound of the acoustic guitar is sped up to frantic levels.
Read more »The catch of a visually minimalist film is in verbal lash. In the voice-over, Myllymäki articulates laconic statements about the Finnish narrow-film circles, followed by roars of laughter.
Read more »The Apostle is a metaphorical short film about the radical ideas of Jesus of Nazareth, prone to new interpretations under the pressure of constantly changing needs of society and institutions.
Read more »The video is composed of three separate arrangement.In each arrangement there is a series of objects as well as water. A person pours a cup of water on the table and proceeds to stack the nearby objects as if to safety from water. When stacked upon each other, the objects form balancing totem poles.
Read more »The pale particles accumulate over certain areas and begin to draw out round shapes from the darkness. The flecks are wood dust created as wood is sawed above the imperceptible arrangement. The dust floats down upon the arrangement, making visible the hidden treasure.
Read more »Seamlessly looping video collage from the city of Belgrade.
Read more »Seamlessly looping video collage from the city of Istanbul.
Read more »Seamlessly looping single-channel video work.
Read more »Single-channel video triptych.
Read more »If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you may miss the best playgrounds.
Read more »Multi-channel cylindrical video installation with a surround soundtrack by Sebastian Mundwiler. The imagery for this work was captured on the island of Utö, where the artist managed to find a place where there was nothing built by man to be seen, regardless of the viewing direction.
Read more »Giant by Salla Tykkä and Walk on Sound by Kati Åberg have been selected to XXIV International Film Festival Message To Man, St. Petersburg, through AV-arkki’s distribution. Walk on Sound is included in In Silico Experimental Competition and Giant in the International… Read more »
Man and woman are fighting within a classic combat game concept accompanied by romantic and rhythmic soundtrack. Fantasy characters are brought closer kicking and kissing in turns. Playground consists of altar, swimming hall and back-alleys. The game will have an appropriate ending.
Read more »A young Palestinian woman nurtures her vegetable garden, and the daily life goes on in the West Bank, in the shadow of the occupying power and control, always present.
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