It tastes a bit strange

Maria Ylikoski
New work
It tastes a bit strange is a story about making choices in life. A Finnish family that has been living in The Netherlands has moved back to Espoo, Finland, and is pondering its decision. The holiday Finland of summertime and the everyday Finland of full-time work are not quite the same thing. The life of the family was... Read more »

Diana Te Quiero

Anneli Nygren
New work

A son of an American-Russian family lives his seventeenth summer, before the coup of the Soviet Union, and meets a childhood friend at a beauty contest.

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Discipline

Johanna Lecklin
New work
A looping projection shows a woman in a one-to-one, life-size scale. She lies on the sofa passively watching an aerobics video, occasionally reaching for the remote to fast-forward. On the opposite side of the projection there is a monitor which shows women in the aerobics class jumping to the rhythm of a... Read more »

Dive

Minna Parkkinen
New work

A dive to the depths of sorrow and back to life again. The short film shows how a person observes everyday environment after facing the loss of a beloved one. Normal things gain symbolic value and some events become totally absurd when they have lost their meaning altogether.

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Document

Marjatta Oja
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A documentary of the artist's life during the years 1999–2000. The multilayered scenes are inspired by dreams. The photographs illustrate the artist's environment during the same period of time.

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Domestic Disorder

Marika Orenius
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The video installation speaks of sensuous knowledge. How are our bodily responses connected to the process of perception and memory? How do we experience spatiality and corporeality? This installation emphasizes the sensation that is based on touch as part of the process of consciousness.

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Domestic Nature Morte

Saara Ekström
New work
An arrangement of ripe tomatoes – Stilleben – becomes a living painting in this time-lapse video. A month-long filming period is compressed into minutes during which the tomatoes undergo a true metamorphosis. First, the fruits turn into a dishful of rotting juice, then they turn back into being... Read more »

Laws of Drama

Anu Pennanen
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Laws of Drama is based on a loosely written triangle drama: A meets B meets C. Amateur actors, each of them with different native languages, sit and stare at each other. The camera is competing with the presence and gaze of the other actors. Is the happily developing relation between A and B disturbed by C or the artist... Read more »

Drive

Elena Näsänen
New work

A roadmovie in a snowy rural landscape, starring a woman in her thirties. The hypnotic drive and the excitement of the speed blends the reality and the imagination. The soundtrack of the video introduces the action movie elements to the story.

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Drop Outs

Saila Puranen
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Drop Outs is a visual landscape of the mind, reflecting a period of unemployment, feelings of being an outsider and of not being in sync with the outer reality.

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Duel

Minna Suoniemi
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'Duel' shows a man and a woman wrestling on a grass field. Physically strained to the extreme, they resemble animals: desire to win becomes a basic instinct.

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Duplicator 1

Erkka Nissinen
New work

In this film we see how a working day of a professional passes, as he is dublicating VHS tapes.

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Duplicator 2

Erkka Nissinen
New work

The film shows how professional workers succeed and fail in their daily routines of dublicating VHS tapes.

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Dyve In

Rosa Liksom
New work

A young man in his bathtub travels to China, Murmansk and Paris.

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Earth Breath

Harri Larjosto
New work
Volcanic hot spring is breathing. I had a residency in Iceland, I saw all over the destruction of economic life, major post-bubble period. Looking at the hot spring unpredictable rythm, I could not escape the thought metaphorically. It appears that the economy creates bubbles, come and go like a steady rythm of breathing.... Read more »

Earth Contacts

Lea Kantonen Pekka Kantonen Marikki Hakola
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A performance about the relationship between a man and the nature, filmed in 1982 at an environmental art symposium in Lehtimäki. Turppi Group (1982–83) was an artists' collective formed by Marikki Hakola, Lea Kantonen, Pekka Kantonen, Martti Kukkonen, and Jarmo Vellonen.

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Easy Pressure

Marcus Lerviks
New work
A two-part installation comprised of a video and a sound piece. A loudspeaker intermittently omits deep bass frequencies whilst a nearby monitor plays a film of a person pressing and dragging his face across an invisible surface, which in the installation becomes the surface of the screen. The work... Read more »

Is Not

Helinä Hukkataival
New work
What is a human being? A man? A woman? Not a piece of clothing. Definitely part of the earth. Read more »

Do Not Disturb

Elina Saloranta
New work
The story is told by a woman who is in a relationship with a married man. She has never met his wife and children, but she dreams about them. The wife dreams about her, too. Paradoxically, the wife is relieved now that the other woman has appeared on the scene, since it enables bringing an unsatisfactory marriage to an end.... Read more »

The First Day

Heta Kuchka
New work

A thirty-year-old man's first day as a father. He talks about responsibility, his expectations and feelings. The last nine months have been a time of learning for him, especially since the baby lives in a family of two women. The father discusses his future role in the child's life.

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Elina

Sampsa Virkajärvi
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The main character in the film is an unmarried daughter called Elina. She lived long time ago on a farm and worked her whole life for the farm, for her brother and for God. The film explores what is left of her and her environment now, and how to interpret the things that are found. The farm is empty and the life of Elina... Read more »

Elle

Rikard Lassenius
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Part three in a series of experimental short films based on modern poetry. 'Elle' - based on Catharina Gripenberg's text with the same name - is a story about the end of childhood and friendship between two young girls.

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Animal Experiment A/1

Sami van Ingen
New work

Animal Experiment A/1 is a silent 16mm film which acts as the stage or a meeting place between Walt Disney’s anthropomorphic personalities and bored kept animals.

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Tree of life

Vappu Rossi
New work

The media art animation made with a charcoal drawing technique juxtaposes the growth of a tree with the development of a foetus. The work shows the drawing process: an image appears and grows, then disappears and transforms into another drawing.

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