Martta Tuomaala‘s Am I Calling You at A Bad Time will compete at ZINEBI – International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, held from November 21–28, 2025 in Bilbao, Spain.

Am I Calling You at A Bad Time (2025) presents X who is growing up in the 1990s. As a child she makes prank calls and gets her first job in telemarketing as a teenager. Office smells, heavy breathers, and meaningless greetings follow her from one workplace to another. Through archival material and amateur video footage, the narrative reflects X’s actions as a faceless subject playing with her voice as a commercialised asset.

Martta Tuomaala is a visual artist (MA) who works between documentary and fiction. She focuses on various forms of film, video and installation. Over the past decade she has mainly concentrated on work culture and workers’ issues. Tuomaala has worked in many low-income fields and her own experiences have inspired her to create projects emphasizing workers’ rights.

In her recent artworks, a notable satirical touch and expressive body language are evident, but the form and the tone of the artwork depends largely on the content that is dealt with.

Tuomaala is a co-founder of Kenno Filmi co-op, a production house proposing reconfigurations of film and media art production practices through creative exchanges. Tuomaala’s works have been exhibited in various festivals and exhibitions internationally (e.g. 2022-23, 5th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, 2021 ACC Gallery, Weimar, 2020 Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, 2020, EKKM, Tallinn, Survival Kit Festival, Riga). She also represented Finland at the 2019 Venice Biennale as part of the Miracle Workers Collective.

ZINEBI – International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao
November 21–28, 2025
Bilbao, Spain

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