Stimulus Progression 

Mika Taanila
New work
Every day, 160 million people around the world listen to anonymous background muzak. Muzak is a "scientifically researched" urban folk tradition with a schizophrenic function: it is supposed to be as unnoticeable and undramatic as possible, yet at the same time it is meant to stimulate workers and shoppers. It is meant to... Read more »

Future Is Not What It Used To Be 

Mika Taanila
New work

A twisted portrait of one of the unsung pioneers of early electronic art, Finnish nuclear scientist / artist Erkki Kurenniemi, revolving around his massive project of "collecting everything".

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RoboCup99

Mika Taanila
New work

A sports film about one particular human utopia: the man-made autonomous machine.

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Psychedelic Alphabet for the Newborn

Sami Sänpäkkilä
New work

Psychedelic Alphabet for the Newborn is a video I made as a present for my dear friends newborn baby. Life is beauty, violence, comfort, danger and lipstick. Even for the newborn.

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Six Day Run

Mika Taanila
New work

A film about spiritual exercise on a one-mile paved loop in a park. The Six Day Run is one of the most extreme individual endurance sports dating back to the 1870s. The film is based loosely on The Book of Genesis in the Bible (Gen. 1:1 – 2:3).

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Dreamless (screening version)

Oliver Whitehead
New work

Eight children paint their faces in preparation for a party at a table laden with cakes, confectionary and some small toys. Their interaction of playing and eating at the table reveals an ambiguous fusion of hedonistic and dystopian behaviour.

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Dreamless

Oliver Whitehead
New work

In the two-channel installation, eight children paint their faces in preparation for a party at a table laden with cakes, confectionary and some small toys. Their interaction as seen through playing and eating at the table reveals an ambiguous fusion of hedonistic and dystopian behaviour.

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Bookville

Marjatta Oja
New work

A lyrical music video and a poetic portrait of city life, books and traveling.

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Rakennemuutos

Jukka Silokunnas
New work
A real house with a sauna is deconstructed in this stop motion animation. The building was taken down manually, with an electric saw, an axe and a crowbar. The artist deconstructed the building in the centre of Kärsämäki village, allowing the passers-by to observe the performance. The local councilmen wonder... Read more »

STYROX EXPRESS II

Helinä Hukkataival
New work
STYROX EXPRESS II is an experimental documentation. The Styrox Express BIke transported a load of styrofoam from a waste bin to an Art Gallery. Styrofoam was material for two huge installations made by BARGAIN Group in Tampere 2009 and in Mänttä 2010. The first Styrox Express video was part of the... Read more »

Kiss Me

Eeva-Mari Haikala
New work
Kiss My is a performance inspired by the biographies of some female artists who once work in St. Ives, especially Virginia Woolf and Helene Schjerfbeck. Written facts are intertwined with the performer’s own stories and memories. Kiss Me is an attempt to bring picturesqueness on a theater... Read more »

Kudryavka – Little Ball of Fur

Risto-Pekka Blom
New work

In an expanding universe, in the cosmic noise of celebratory speeches, with an eye always blackened by a punch. Kudryavka - Little ball of fur is a piece compiled mainly of archive material, centering around the launch of Laika the dog into space in 1957. Laika's original name was Kudryavka.

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Two or three things about charcoal

Salla Myllylä
New work

What kind of a film can be made on a living room window with a piece of transparent paper, some charcoal powder, a glass of water and a few hours of sunlight in a November afternoon?

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Night Garden

Raakel Kuukka
New work

Night Garden is an atmospheric portraiture of a deserted house and its garden, which has burst into bloom amidst the darkness. Apple trees bear a heavy fruit, bats fly around, geraniums glow in colors of red, and a ghostly music plays over it all. Still, there is beauty!   

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Choir of Cousins

Raakel Kuukka
New work
In the videowork Choir of Cousins, cousins from the Kuukka family, dressed in Marimekko shirts, have gathered together in the summery landscape to sing. The song is called “Kyllä se passaa kaikille haastaa – Karjalan-pitäjät”. The melody is taken from the 19th century military song... Read more »

Thin Membrane (Installation)

Minna Långström
New work
Thin Membrane consists of a built-in structure representing a part of a wall of a residential house. On the wall there is a window. The window acts as a frame for the video. The video shows what would be seen through the window; a group of friends having a nice dinner together. The viewer can follow the dinner, its... Read more »

Walk on Sound

Kati Åberg
New work

“Walk on Sound” follows Riikka Hänninen, a musician who was born blind, as she walks along unknown streets in Helsinki. She explains how she perceives her surrounding through sound and her other senses. We experience the city as she does.

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I do not remember you anymore

Rita Jokiranta
New work

The video deals with the shifting, distortion and fragmenting of reality, and the unreliability. But it also asks: What lasts? What is strong? What is fragile? At the same time, the work carries on the themes of seeing and looking. And finally: What do we really see – or want to see?

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Blockage

Tero Puha
New work

A woman comes face to face with her past and future when she returns to her old childhood home. Her dead mother's old dress wakes suppressed and conflicting emotions.

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Espresso

Helinä Hukkataival
New work

ESPRESSO is a performance for video camera. It deals with public shame and a social fear, the coffee cup neurosis.

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Rondo

Marja Viitahuhta
New work
Rondo is an experimental short and silent film with a woman, a man, a house on the beach and an uncovered illusion. Shot originally on 8mm film, containing no dialogue and based on a circular structure, the film is a poetic description of the state of mind of a person in between events, experiencing change. The music of the... Read more »

99 Years of My Life

Marja Viitahuhta
New work
One fictional biography depicted from birth to death, based on the lives and memories of four women of different age. Each year in the film is reduced to three sentences, a list that runs from 0 to 99. This narration is illustrated as a variety of cinematographic styles and media: archive footage, home video, still... Read more »

Unfit

Timo Wright
New work

Digital image processing and nervous, fast forwarded movement dissolve the outline and vanish the image of the dancer's body.

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Play This At My Funeral

Niina Lehtonen Braun Tellervo Kalleinen
New work
Different people in Helsinki and Berlin are posing in their homes with the instruments they wish to be played at their funeral. The participants, aged between 4 and 90 years, were found through an open call distributed in social media. The video is matched to the song "Play this at my funeral" by Swedish band Blood... Read more »

My Silence

Mika Taanila
New work

This "reductionist" video and sound piece is an experiment into what happens when you take out the most important element from a specific canonized feature film classic. 

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Staande! Debout!

Anu Pennanen
New work
2012, Vilvoorde, an abandoned industrial area in Flanders, Belgium. Felix is an ex-car factory worker. Fifteen years ago his employer suddenly announced the plant's closure. In response 3100 workers went on strike, paralyzing Belgium for weeks. But what remains after solidarity and struggle? Based on true events, this... Read more »