Ephemeral
A painted apparition of a hundred-year-old wedding photo emerges on a steamed window. Just as the figures begin to stand out, they are already fading away. The animation deals with our attempts to hold onto memories and in spite of their inherent ephemerality.
Read more »Ephemeral (screening version)
A painted apparition of a hundred-year-old wedding photo emerges on a steamed window. Just as the figures start to stand out, they already fade away. The media art animation deals with ephimerality and keeping up a memory.
Read more »Year of the Horse (Sitting on a Rock)
Year of the Horse – Day and Night of the Goat (installation)
Slow and Fast
A short time is treated as a little longer time.
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High Tide Island
High Tide Island was shot with a digital still-camera that captures video signal for 15 frames per second. This results in the film-like quality of the image. The video has been shot in the artist's living room and at the backyard in Vuosaari, a neighbourhood that can be translated as "High Tide Island".
Read more »Elevator solo
Another elevator solo
Hit
In 'Hit', the artist asked someone to hit her in the face. The slow motion image reveals every hint of a facial expression. The slowed-down sound resembles the sound of a tennis match.
Read more »Home Is a Poem.
“Home Is a Poem” bears resemblance to a home video: it has been shot hand-held and with an extra microphone. The selected and edited material is a collage of various narrative styles: a guided tour, a performance, an interpretation, and a monologue.
Read more »homelight
Pines
Huima
A good-humoured depiction of a peaceful summer's day and a small boy's eager attempt at spinning around without collapsing. The infectiously carefree spirit makes everything else disappear.
Read more »Human Interest
Video about our tendency to anthropomorphise the nature.
Read more »Tomorrow
A young girl does not understand what tomorrow means. She asks her father, then stays awake past midnight, learning that tomorrow can never be seen. The story is based on a French woman's childhood memory recorded at the Story Cafe event in Helsinki.
Read more »The Room
Video deals with memory and narration. It tells a story about a room in an abandoned old people's home. The narrator is trying to remember the past of a particular room, how it was furnished, the life of the person who lived there and the exterior of the building.
Read more »Room (by Elina Saloranta)
Sweethearts
Remedies
Smiling
Good Stuff
In this game one person's loss isn't another's gain – everyone loses. In the world of losers different laws prevail and there is always plenty of good stuff around. All the food used for the animation was collected from bins.
Read more »Fade Away
Sometimes at twilight the co-operation of my eyes and brain changes. My gaze wanders without purpose and my brain picks up only a part of the sights. My eyes and my brain seem to work independently of each other. So my interest for surrounding events decreases and images seem flat, two-dimensional. I find this relaxing.
Read more »I Love JaNY
I Love My Job
The filmmakers invited employees in Göteborg and Helsinki to describe conflicted situations in their work places – and invent a fictional ending to the events, including both hopeful scenarios and revenge fantasies.
Read more »I Talk With My Hand
Man rotates in slow motion with riffles tied to his hands. Commentary on suffering and war.
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