Bird

Harri Larjosto
New work

The artist sheltered currant bushes in his garden with a net. Unfortunately, instead of only covering the bushes it was catching birds. Before releasing the bird, the artist was watching it and thought How much harm a human being is causing just by making something in the ordinary, careless way?

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Beginning an Ending

Jani Ruscica
New work
The space of a film studio is like a blank canvas that becomes a stage for people’s visions of the future. Seven characters recount future events, revealing in the process the very nature and fragility of image construction. The future can, in the end, only reflect the present. The past and images created by the media... Read more »

Louis Who? What you should know about Louis Agassiz

Sasha Huber
New work
In the Louis Who? What you should know about Louis Agassiz, the viewer is confronted by the history of colonialism and oppression as created by Louis Agassiz. Like a messenger from times past, Sasha Huber enters the picture on a gleaming black horse, telling the passers-by of Praça Agassiz, in the suburbs of Rio,... Read more »

Love Story

Milja Viita
New work
A small scene from one street corner in San Francisco. Man walks down the street and passes a woman who is standing still. Read more »

The Reading Circle

Jaana Kokko
New work
Four women meet in a Helsinki apartment to discuss the meanings they attach to the term 'political'. Through their monologues and the intellectual discussion based on Hannah Arendt's thinking, the women define the image of a political individual and a political woman: What does political mean? What should womanly political... Read more »

Lullaby

Minna Suoniemi
New work

Lullaby is a version of the mother and child -motive, familiar the art history. The mother lies on a bed while the child is playing with her face. The mother growls and shows her fangs, but the child has no fear for her beast mother.

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The Bewitched Child

Marikki Hakola
New work

The Bewitched Child is a fantasy film for both adults and children. The story follows a small boy facing the strange consequences of his thoughtless action and his mean deeds. This dance and music film is based on a miniature opera by Maurice Ravel.

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Luonnotar

Marikki Hakola
New work

Luonnotar is a new interpretation of the Finnish national epoch Kalevala's creation myth. The symphonic poem is composed by Jean Sibelius. The film combines live actors and computer animation.

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Nature

Seppo Renvall
New work

A film about the relationship between the man and the nature

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Nature Film

Juha Mäki-Jussila
New work

'Nature Film' lists some human characteristics that are regarded as exceptional. These features are carried by the main figure of the film. Strangely enough, his story seems to be quite ordinary.

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Nature Studies

Heli Rekula
New work

A subjective documentary of a young girl studying the behavior of insects; stories and observations of herself and the insects, whilst alternately feeding and killing, nurturing and torturing them.

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Warm Front

Seppo Renvall
New work

A poetic short film about a farmer couple that lives separately. The film is shot with a self-made pinhole camera. Locally fog / mild wind, showers of hail / possible tomorrow / fine weather, ploughs, pension, separator / slight passing / separations.

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Seeing Through

Marjatta Oja
New work
Seeing Through consists of a video projection, a mirror and a hanging membrane with an image on it. In the video, projected onto the mirror, a person leans forward as if looking at her image in a mirror. From the mirror, the video passes on to the wall, with the intervening membrane which casts a shadow on... Read more »

Transparent

Marjatta Oja
New work
Transparent consists of three parts which were connected by means of video projections. Each part contains a video or videos, some contains a mirror, a screen or a piece of transparent fabric hanging from a stand. Transparent represents an attempt to violate the linearity of the spatial presentation of moving images, both... Read more »

m

Saila Puranen
New work

A short documentary film about the meanings in my family album photos and my own memories, which do not always recollect what really took place. “m” is one possible interpretation of the way I see myself and my family history.

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Saving the World

Maija Blåfield
New work
Saving the World looks at reality and experiencing it from the point of view of Marcel Bloemendahl, director's friend. Marcel has schizophrenia, which he describes in the following way: 'If I did not have it, I would just be boring and average. But now I can save the world.' Marcel has been traveling around Europe non-stop... Read more »

Globe - Encyclopedia

Seppo Renvall
New work

Illustrations from an encyclopedia book series called Globe, published in 1919, combined with film music composed in the same year.

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Landscape

Axel Antas
New work
A large video projection of a fleeting landscape. With a glimmer of the Romantic sublime that appears throughout the history of mountain painting, Landscape was shot in a remote part of the Pyrenees, on the borders between France and Spain. There is a sense of a threshold between dreaming and waking up,... Read more »

Landscape (Oja)

Marjatta Oja
New work
The installation consists of a cuboid, which is covered with transparent canvas. Cuboid is strenghtened with a steel frame and mounted on a wall. There is a video projection inside the cube, and on the surface a printed reproduction of a Constable painting. The painting depicts a female figure in a... Read more »

Maja

Henna-Riikka Halonen
New work

Filmed in a snowy forest in Northern Finland, “Maja” refers to the painterly composition of the Nordic landscape painting tradition. It investigates an individual’s relation to nature through the characters in the forest, and asks how our surroundings alter us and are altered by us.

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Lying on a Cliff 1 + 2

Annette Arlander
New work

Part 1. The artist is lying with a yellowish scarf covering her head fourteen times on the rocks on the western shore of Harakka island. Part 2. A yellowish scarf is lying on the rocks on the western shore of Harakka island on the same occasions.

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Masa

Anssi Kasitonni
New work
In his nest, a technologically surprisingly advanced and creative guinea pig plots his getaway plans, which always run into the impenetrable wall of his owner’s love. This movie features electric gadgets, bodybuilding, Steve McQueen and surprisingly long monologues spoken in guinea pig language.... Read more »

The Imaginary Life of Matias Keskinen

Veli Granö
New work
A nature film about a great Finn, the emperor of the republic. A documentary about the artist Matias Keskinen, the sculptor of the giant president Kekkonen statue, which was destroyed in Oulu by the time of president Gorbatshov's visit in Finland 1989. Keskinen (1922–1987) was a sculptor, photographer and a film... Read more »

Journey

Elena Näsänen
New work

'Journey' consists of 36 consecutive takes, shot every tenth day during one year, at the route of the tram 3T. The days and the times were set beforehand, as well as the amount of the film to be used for each take. The disciplined system brought change into the process too.

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Trip to the Moon

Kari Yli-Annala
New work

Structuralistic video about plunging into the structures of the surface and on the difficulty of finding the basis. The means: a gradually enlarged print copy of the moon, 16mm film animation and video effects.

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ME/WE, OKAY, GRAY

Eija-Liisa Ahtila
New work
A short film with three fictional episodes and narration consisting of rhythmic monologues. The subject of these three humane dramas is the transformation of one's identity. ME/WE is about balancing individual identity and about control. OKAY uses a single on-screen persona and various voices to consider the shifts,... Read more »

Mediascape, a journey to a media landscape

Marikki Hakola
New work

A documentary about Helsinki Mediascape multi art project and the young artist generation accomplishing their visions without prejudices, by means of electronic art. A collage and a travelogue of a collective wandering 'in the mediascape' during a six months period.

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