A self-absorbed man is having a verbal diarrhea. He expounds upon his narcissistic observations during a meal to his unseen and silent dinner companion.
Read more »Stasis breaks into movement in a subtle study on form, duration and the performative act.
Read more »Three-dimensional monsters appear on the two-dimensional surface of Facebook world to tell a story. The story is about the origins on those monsters. At the same time the characters are being introduced on the display. At the end it is time to choose one's own monster and continue with the story.
Read more »A figure stands facing landscapes when suddenly a silent force takes him into the midst of deep waters. Real landscapes start turning into fantasy. That sudden rough flight continues to repeat itself. One is moving in the borderlands of the mystery of death and life.
Read more »The first of three parts, Sequence is a stop motion animation that contemplates the processes and associations of drawing and painting.
Read more »The second part of three, 'Sequence' is a stop motion animation that contemplates the processes and associations of drawing and painting.
Read more »The final of three parts, 'Sequence' is a stop motion animation that contemplates the processes and associations of drawing and painting.
Read more »Frame is a story of performer's desire to portrait herself and to connect with her audience through the portrayed story. The work utilizes personal sincerity and the discomfort of self-expression, asking about the credibility of the performance, its truthfulness.
Read more »Salla Tykkä has reveiced the Tiger Award for Short Film at Rotterdam Film Festival for her film Giant (2014). She is the first Finnish director to receive this acknowledgment. Giant was filmed at the famous, Romanian, Communist-era gymnastics schools of Onesti and Deva where… Read more »
Images of unfinished hotels, insects and radars mix with transparent colours. Two vertical, partly overlapping and unsynchronized projections on acrylic glass form endless variations of images. Footage has been shot in tourist areas of Greece.
Read more »Two overlapping video images of superimposed different-coloured canaries is projected onto a corner of the exhibition space. Overlayed onto the image is a tensed and encircling bunch of climbing ropes. The work is based on the story of the breeding experiment of birds in Germany in 1920's.
Read more »Against all odds, the film Five words did offend a viewer. There is a sixth dirty word in the audience feedback. Repeated over and over again.
Read more »One simply cannot be offended by a short film whose script is strictly based on the official Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish.
Read more »An expedition to a peculiar small town where even the swans swim backwards and water in puddles is antimatter.
Read more »A mystery in 8mm, shot in reverse and upside down. A weird object disturbs the quiet of the lake.
Read more »"The brightest white in the history of cinema" is produced without camera: five bullet holes are shot directly in the celluloid. The soundtrack features metal tools slowly moved on a table.
Read more »The faceless rebel's declaration of war and "a rousing stab into the gunky eye of Finnish amateur cinema" (Myllymäki).
Read more »A formalist experimentation based on the visual idea of the stave: a folded sheet of paper changes its tone with the alteration of light and sound. The humming sound of acoustic guitar is alienated by manipulating the speed of a reel-to-reel recorder.
Read more »Myllymäki's debute film, a poster-like trick film, exposes an apple to opposite forces – the lightness and the weight.
Read more »A lonely surfing board emerges from the waves, only to disappear into the water again. Set in a river in southern Germany, the video exploits camera placement and editing to create an illusion of a surfing scene in the ocean.
Read more »A woman with a long dark hair is facing a stationary camera. Her hair is perpetually flying in the wind.
Read more »Referring to the recurring cinematic image of a person driving a car whilst the landscape is reflected in the windshield, Man in Car presents an illusion of movement in reverse. A man is placed in a stationed car and the clouds reflecting on the windscreen are in perpetual motion.
Read more »Nanjing Grand Theatre was a cinema specializing in Hollywood movies, in the 1930s Shanghai. In the early 2000s the building had to make way for a multi-lane highway. In a massive operation the whole building was lifted from the ground and moved. The video is shot on the original site.
Read more »A French architect designed a modern prison for "happy" convicts in the 1960s Paris. After the concept turned out to be an unsuccessful utopia, disillusioned ex-convicts came back to seek revenge against the architect.
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