“A Living Painting” or 'Tableau Vivant' shot in a real location: in the room of a stock exchange bank Sofi Secirities Inc. The work reflects Larjosto's vision of the global stock economy and humanity.
Read more »Bats’ ability to echolocate reveals the limitations of human sight. As the film about the use of sound as a navigational tool develops, the visual and aural perception of the subject changes. Made in collaboration with the researches in bioacoustics from the University of Bristol.
Read more »A ferry called Beda arrives, lets the passengers out and takes new ones on board.
Read more »The video combines footage from a car testing course in Lapland and a car crash investigation in London. The combination refers to the moral of the story which, however, is left open. The video raises questions about the nature of visual narration.
Read more »A cinematographic poem, based on Contantin Brancusi’s sculpture 'Bird in Space'.
Read more »In a scene a young female film star arrives in the hotel entrance where a crowd of fans welcomes her. This scene is repeated and the image becomes a fragmented cliché. Visual effects give the work a fake feeling while the internal voices of the protagonist resurface.
Read more »There is a picture of a room with a black circle or hole on the wall. A person is throwing black objects and clothes into the hole. For a moment it seems like the items are disappearing into the darkness, but instead pulled by gravity, dropping on the floor .
Read more »The work portrays a bodily landscape with close-ups. The poetic and clinical drama raises questions about the body’s intelligence and about its interior and exterior.
Read more »Bloom is a small effort to reach heavenly feelings by diving into a cherry tree in bloom.
Read more »A self-portrait of a woman changes into an abstract image as the woman blows a balloon that becomes a red circle against the black canvas.
Read more »The work pays homage, in the form of an experimental war game, to Puranen’s heroic and mysterious father who fought for Finland in World War II but lost his home in the Karelian Isthmus to the Russians.
Read more »Borgo was shot in Mazzano Romano in Italy. The three artists walked the same route in the narrow streets of the medieval town, each recording their own sequence.
Read more »The video has two parts. The first part, Stakeout, is a reconstruction of a dream. The experimental soundtrack features a soprano and V8 engines. The second part borrows its form from performance. In the Feet Washing Ceremony a woman is reciting extracts of poems by Gaspara Stampa (1523–1554).
Read more »The moods of the disabled, interpreted by half-frozen flies.
Read more »A BRATZ doll is looking out the window and imagining herself as a glamorous roller skating star.
Read more »Broad Sense is based on an three day long intervention in the European Parliament in Brussels. The video reveals the diversity of security responses to the artist’s visits.
Read more »Hanna Brotherus is a dancer who has three sons. When her fourth baby was born, she saw written on the hospital bed: 'Brotherus, girl'. In the video Hanna dances and encounters her daughter in the forest.
Read more »One day in Summer of 2010, I sit down for a moment wrapped in a white scarf next to some cotton grass on the island of Kökar in the Åland archipelago.
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