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Zoom is a video about speed, distance and perspective. It is shot from a deck of a ship. The camera zooms into the waves generated by the ship. The speed of the ship seems to change as the camera zooms closer and the waves start to dissolve into an abstract animation.
Read more »Suddenly, Last Summer
Suddenly, Last Summer is an experimental animation based freely on the play of the same title by Tennesee Willams. Some fragments of the original play are restaged frame by frame by new botanical performers.
Read more »Don't Touch
Don't Touch presents an eerie vignette in a rustic 19th century interior. Intense atmosphere builds up and is released by an unexpected touch.
Read more »Whispering in a Friend's Mouth
Two friends painting a graffiti on a shop window in their home village in central Finland have ended up kissing. The experimental short film, which juxtaposes events happening in two different times, examines the border between platonic and romantic love.
Read more »Finitudes
A view from the window of an airplane shows the relation between the worlds and the chaotic substance of which the worlds are made of. The clouds lose their shape on the edge of the window and make a reappearance in the reflection. In the end we get clumsy and stumble down, out of the worlds.
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The work shows pedestrian walk signs painted on the street. The signs have been filmed during one year. The name of the film is also a sign which can be read: as before, as previously. The repetitive piece refers to the beautiful emotion: longing for something that was before.
Read more »'75 Mainstream Catastrophe
The video recycles images from the Hollywood film Airport '75 (1975). The aviation accident becomes a metaphor of the crisis in society and between people in general. The video is a tribute to 1970's and disaster film.
Read more »(Dis)Integrator
In (Dis)Intergrator a sequence from Kurt Neumann´s 'The Fly', made in 1958, is copied with a VHS recorder. Then the copy is copied again. This process is repeated until the video signal disintegrates into noise and finally disappears into darkness.
Read more »(I'm having) The Time of My Life
'(I'm having) the Time of My Life' is a reconstruction of the 1986 hit movie Dirty Dancing. In this version the female character is replaced by director Stenbom. The work investigates the encounters with a fictional sex symbol, Johnny, and a real individual, the director.
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The Gulf War, a media nightmare, violates the homely peace. But are the newspapers only paper, and the news only ink? Is it possible to make sense of the consequences and the dimensions of these phenomena? The piece observes the world literally from the point of view of a home video.
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The piece deals with communication using the phrase: "If you criticize somebody once, you have to praise him ten times to restore the balance" as its starting point.
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The work is based on the artist's dreams during a six months period and is dedicated to somnambulists.
Read more »11th of May 1918
A tableau about a young female who was executed during the Finnish Civil War 1918. The film is a documentary-like fantasy of her last minutes in a lush grove. The work concentrates on that particular moment and the introverted attentiveness of being aware of death.
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147 & mdf
147 & mdf is a site-specific installation that combines pre-recorded video, paintings and a live surveillance camera in an attempt to utilise both movement and stillness to form a line through space.
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A documentary about the working day of an artist in his studio. The video is shot through different reflecting objects.
Read more »2=2+1=3
A minimalist study on group dynamics. A man appears between two women.
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3-Day
The footage depicts a 3-day-old baby and shows the fragility and the beauty of life. The image of the new-born is mixed randomly with other material. The work functions like a wallpaper: it is present in the space, and there is no plot to follow.
Read more »4 Songs: As a Matter of Fat
6 Minutes 8 Pictures
Eight photographs are taken from the same place during six minutes. In between there are colourful flashes.
Read more »7 Arts Part 1: Art
7 Arts Part 2: Painting
A girl walking around Lahti city, carrying a painting wrapped in plastic.
Read more »7 Arts Part 3: Film
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7 Arts Part 4: Position
24 porn images per second.
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