“Unplugged” presents a minimalistic choreography for the cables in the ceiling, the zoom of the camera, the mirror on the floor and the sway of the hand.
Read more »Until
Petra Lindholm
New work
Until is a narrative that takes place during the night, and in which all conversations occur over the phone. Shot in New York, Paris and the Finnish archipelago, the video portrays a man in a bath and a girl in a bar discussing life, dreams, and loneliness. A portrait of two strangers, their desires and the mystery of their... Read more »
UNTITLED (a portrait)
Terike Haapoja
New work
In ‘Untitled (a portrait)’ we see a chimpanzee with a lively expression gazing towards us. But as the only movement we see in the image comes from reflections on glass, we realise the chimpanzee is inside a case in a museum, and the movement is that of the visitors who are actually looking at... Read more »
Untitled (Searchlight)
Mikko Kuorinki
New work
‘What’s wrong, have you lost your ring? Don’t worry, the leaves and sun will work together like searchlights. She had never lost a ring, but we were happy to look for it.’ The silent video work combines the text with an image of a play of light on a forest soil covered with leaves.
Read more »Untitled (Sketch of a Tree)
Axel Antas
New work
The world’s oldest living tree has a 10,000-year-old root system, and only a few know the tree's location. The installation studies the material quality of film and its reliance on an object in space and time. The temporal is presented visually and spatially: the Super 8 mm format points to the past,... Read more »
Unto Laupiainen - provincial naivist
Anneli Nygren
New work
A fictional documentary about a farmer who starts his career in his sixties and becomes an artistic sensation because of painting chubby ladies.
Read more »Urho Ilmari Kukkamaa
Maija Saksman
New work
A song based on a story about Urho Ilmari Kukkamaa. He was a gentleman and jewelry thief of the Helsinki of the past, who never got caught but disappeared, transformed and hid in gateways to light a cigaret like a film noir star. The video presents mysterious smokers in present day and suggests an image of a hiding ghost... Read more »
Blonde Men
Blonde Men is a two-channel video installation in which a woman reads her daughter’s cards and whilst teaching her the art of fortune telling. The cards promise men and wealth for... Read more »
White Spot
Tellervo Kalleinen
New work
Tellervo Kalleinen turned a gallery into a video studio and placed advertisements in newspapers stating that anyone could come and direct a film scene here, provided that it can take place in an empty white space and that it includes a role for the artist.... Read more »
Photograph of The Sea
Elena Näsänen
New work
The film consists of two sequences: one in the room and the other at the beach. The story is told by the sound. No characters are visible. The camera shows what the characters see.
Read more »Overflow I
Heli Rekula
New work
A white liquid drips down, it overflows slowly and covers the dark background entirely.
Read more »Overflow IV
Heli Rekula
New work
Wake - secondhand knowledge
Harri Larjosto
New work
An installation comprising of multiple parts which can also be installed separately, ‘Wake – Secondhand knowledge’ is a multimedia work designed to lure the audience into another, dream-like realm.
Read more »Vanishing
Tanja Koistila
New work
A woman is sitting on a red sofa. A figure dressed in blue and with a masked face approaches from a tunnel.
Read more »Vantaa
Erkka Nissinen
New work
A musical journey. Arnold Schönberg is looking for his yoghurt – Karlheinz Stockhausen might have something to do with it.
Read more »Free floating
Multiple image layers dissolve into each other in this collage. Shots of shop windows form a waving stream of images down which a naked woman floats. Texts from advertisements are reflected on her bare skin.
Read more »Freestyle Swimming
Santtu Koivu
New work
Cloudy sky and a low horizon in the background. A boy's hands are moving faster and faster. At full speed for as long as he can.
Read more »The Price of Our Liberty
Seppo Renvall
New work
The film portrays men from the provinces of Uusimaa, Pori, Turku and Viaborg who were killed in the Finnish-Russian War during 1939-40.
Read more »Warning Signs
Anneli Nygren
New work
An artistic puppet animation showing how traffic signs guide us also in the matters of love.
Read more »Body
Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl
New work
A documentation of a performance from late September 1979. At first, we see only small spots of light that start to take a shape of a body. Little by little, these spots approach the audience and turn out to be lights attached to the performer. There are two television screens with static noise. The light-body keeps... Read more »
Veli Bror Brother
Björn Aho
New work
The work investigates the relationship and communication between two men, and the impact of the environment on people's self-image. The video is set in a small suburban wood with a stage set made of columns. Instead of words, most of the interaction between the two men is conveyed through gestures and a game of football.... Read more »
Water Stories
Harri Larjosto
New work
In 1996 Larjosto announced in a Finnish newspaper: 'I am making a documentary film. I'm looking for people with deep emotional or professional connections with water.' A midwife, a captain of an icebreaker ship, a clairvoyant, and a priest shared their intimate and personal testimonies and contemplations about water as... Read more »
This Spring We Bought the Same Jackets
Petra Lindholm
New work
A person pulls fluff out of a blanket and places it on her sleeping friend, so softly he does not wake. The act expresses both frustration and love – an irritating kind of tenderness. This gesture is repeated on... Read more »
Via Dolorex
Pekka Sassi
New work
A young man walks in a huge and empty industrial building. He is on his way to meet the great unknown. Read more »
Vie Coye (Citron)
Eeva-Mari Haikala
New work
'Vie Coye (Citron)” is a video work taking place in the space between still life and performance. Once a day for a month, Haikala sat herself behind a table with a lemon still-life and made a small gesture that a camera recorded.
Read more »Vie Coye (Fin)
Eeva-Mari Haikala
New work
'Vie Coye (Fin)” is a sister work of Haikala’s video performance “Vie Coye (Citron)”. It is filmed on the last day of the 30-day shoots. Read more »
Only Too Much Is Enough
Anneli Nygren
New work
A propaganda film about the new world order where fat is a desirable phenomenon. This gospel is spread by animated drawings accompanied by intertitles, voice over, "music" and onomatopoeic sounds.
Read more »A Visit
Heta Kuchka
New work
A seven-year-old American girl performs songs she's learned by heart from the MTV-music channel. Ironically the lyrics deal with sex, drugs and violence.
Read more »The Powerline of a five years old
Work tells the story of creativity: a five-year-old boy paints spontaneously a picture of his family and bicycle on a five meters high paper. The work also documents the boy's family life and play.
Read more »Hymn Videos
Seppo Renvall
New work
Three hymn music videos that strive for finding the glow of old hymns in the modern life. An aged rock star Zape Leppänen sings old Finnish hymns with his cracked voice full of big emotions. The music creates a melancholic but comforting feeling that is paralleled to slow motioned surveillance camera footage. In the... Read more »