“The Bath House” is a cinematic re-imagination of a 1930s Russian constructivist play written by Vladimir Mayakovsky and directed by Vsevolod Meyerhold. The work is set at the modernist Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Read more »A nocturnal meeting in the film noir style. Shot with a digital still camera and extra low resolution to support the nostalgic atmosphere.
Read more »The Blow is a subjective drama around the artist’s late grandfather's house. Memories consist of objects or information embedded. Creating a distance. That is called History.
Read more »'The Dead House' is a horror movie, shot in a dollhouse. The film is constructed following the clichés of the genre; using theme music and sound effects. In a way 'The Dead House' is only a make-believe movie.
Read more »In the film inspired by Brecht's Exile Dialogues, two women meet in a restaurant at Helsinki railway station. Stuck repeating the same borrowed sentences while gambling, the women lend a premise for the excavation of the history inscribed in the space.
Read more »From the series "Domestic studies in cosmology". Shot through a plastic cup. More of a painting than a video.
Read more »The video work is based on a Polish folk tale about the glass mountain. The performers are Polish construction workers living in Ireland. Gradually, their work routine turns into a choreography.
Read more »We are walking down a path towards a lake. A voiceover describes the situation, over and over again. We hear about a person's effort to connect to this place. The camera turns to the drunk protagonist and the voiceover criticizes her.
Read more »Series of videos where the same woman performs absurd things, such as hits herself and tries to close her mouth by sewing it.
Read more »The Hunter explores the relationship between human and nature. The main character is a modern day hunter immersed in his hobby. His sense of nature is affected by technology. The act of shooting has become an end in itself.
Read more »“The Inspector” is a series of re-enactments of various films and TV series featuring female police inspectors at crime scenes. The inspector is investigating a space at night, equipped with a forged FBI badge and a paper gun.
Read more »“The Kiss” is a love story. It deals with the isolation of love and the power of unification.
Read more »The Lady of the Lake is a minimalistic music video which reminds us how essential it is at times to close our eyes in order to see clearer. With the loss of vision of the outside world, images, memories, and dreams appear - the world where we see by other means than our eyes. Music: Ave Maria/Franz Schubert.
Read more »The Protocol is a re-staging of an American infomercial which in turn is an imitation of a U.S. talk show.
Read more »Stenbom has picked interview extracts from “Rescue 911”, an American docu-drama from the 1990s, dealing with real life rescues, and remade them acting all the interviewees herself: the 911 dispatcher, the police officer, the paramedic, the fireman, the doctor, and the nurse.
Read more »A single-shot film about a path in a park, shadowed by lines of leave trees.
Read more »‘The Scene’ is a silent, looped video animation based on emergency vehicle lights. Projected into a darkened interior, it recalls the effect of an event outside, spilling in through the window and sweeping around the room.
Read more »The Second law of thermodynamics: The disorder increases in an isolated system. From the series "Domestic Studies in Cosmology."
Read more »This tutorial preaches on sociological themes and brings forward non-visible structures of our social interactions. A man with a mustache and black curly hair lectures on the processes through which we integrate into society.
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