In Memoriam is a stop-motion animation about the human ephimerality. Images of the desolate building combined with the soundscape of an auction form a meditation on what will be left behind when we have left the stage. Abandoned buildings and their spirits are in the main role.
Read more »Wrapped in a green shawl I stand in the landscape looking for a juniper on Clare Island during a few days in summer 2011.
Read more »A woman is sitting by a dinner table with two cups in front of her. She looks like she is waiting for someone. Or is she? Sometimes it can be difficult to separate imagination from reality and the present from the past.
Read more »Home and Country is based on interviews with the author Ann-Mari Lindberg (b. 1934). The work portrays the major events of the Second World War in Finland through her everyday experiences as a child. It also recounts how these experiences have influeced the values of her generation.
Read more »This experimental film simulates how a newborn child perceives the world. The child has not yet absorbed the adult's constructed ideas of the surrounding environment, nor made the the distinction between self and the other.
Read more »1 Plus 1 Plus 1 – Sympathy for the Decay is an abstract expressionist film, which explores the manipulation of reality-based content and documentary material by adapting the conventions of experimental film and repetition in minimalist music to stretch the limits of narrativity and representation.
Read more »In the short film Victoria, a nightly blossoming of the giant water lily is depicted. The plant tells the story of European colonialism in the 19th century and hides within its beauty the human need for power and domination.
Read more »A single butterfly causes a chain reaction in this animated narrative about the absence of destiny. The story also contains a life-saving miracle that is left unnoticed by the person who was saved.
Read more »A mystic creature is removing people one by one from the realm of life. Enigmatic events are set in a snowy arctic and in a mysterious cave-like cellar. There is still glimpses of surprising warm humor typical of Sami Sänpäkkilä’s oeuvre.
Read more »Three-channel installation of three portraits, each consisting of over 1500 pictures taken in extreme close-up. They cover the entire naked body of the subject, shown as a one-minute endless loop.
Read more »People jumping.
Read more »A girl with a golden star in front of her face is running in the forest.
Read more »A girl smashes a car with a sledge hammer.
Read more »Albedo suits are designed to increase the sunlight reflectivity and the amount of albedo in the forests, which aims at cooling the climate and mitigating the climate change. They play with the idea of DIY geoengineering This particular movie presents a prototype for logger's albedo suit.
Read more »Animated superheroes are running, bouncing and flying over the rooftops of Dakar like in a platformer video game. They are not in control of their skills, and each time they take off, they end up falling all the way to the ground. The soundtrack imitates the sounds of classic video games.
Read more »The video footage shows us different acts of a woman becoming a cat-like person, exotic, wild and free. A character called Clara Sturm buys a leopard statue and wants to write a story or even a manuscript about it. A voice-over describes her thoughts and feelings during the process.
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