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Crab Dad

Blom Risto-Pekka
Finland
2012 / 0:15:00
You come in and ask if something is wrong. The porridge is a bit burnt, I reply. This experimental documentary is a personal narrative from the point of view of a stay-at-home dad. The film represents a new father’s viewpoint as a sort of an outsider in the process of giving birth and having a child. The anxiety, desperation and an overdose of family life are illustrated by the use of animated scenes. Though the father and his emotions about fatherhood are in the main focus, he stays in the background as a narrator.

Waste no. 2 Wreck

Jan Ijas
Finland
2016 / 0:09:51

Wreck (Lampedusa, Italy, 2015) was filmed in 2014 and 2015 in the graveyard for refugee boats on the Italian island of Lampedusa. It is a story about how the value of garbage and rubbish can surprisingly change.

The Prison Mother's Lullaby

Marjo Levlin
Finland
2015 / 0:05:58

The musical composition, The Prison Mother’s Lullaby by Kaija Maarika Penttala from 2010 was the starting point of the piece. Penttala had composed it after reading an article about Finnish female prisoners who serve their sentence in primitive circumstances imprisoned with their child. By Penttala’s request Marjo Levlin made the video work to the theme and music. After researching and getting involved in the subject, an experimental, poetic weave came into being, a symbolistic piece springing out of the theme.

Kudryavka – Little Ball of Fur

Risto-Pekka Blom
Finland
2013 / 0:05:08

In an expanding universe, in the cosmic noise of celebratory speeches, with an eye always blackened by a punch. Kudryavka – Little ball of fur is a piece compiled mainly of archive material, centering around the launch of Laika the dog into space in 1957. Laika’s original name was Kudryavka.

"We Are the Revolution”, after Joseph Beuys
Making of : Walking in Krasny Bor forest, Karelia, Russia

Jari Silomäki
Finland, Russia
2016 / 0:02:43

In the video, the artist visits the scenes for the major political murders of the 20th century and takes as many steps as there were victims in each tragedy. The video depicts the inevitable human loneliness before significant events and comments on the rhetoric emerged from the industrial revolution: are the quantity and the size only factors that can contribute to a fact? The long walk starts in Russia. The artist is walking on the memorial for the victims of Stalin’s persecutions in the Krasny Bor forest, Karelia, Russia. One step for each victim lying in the mass grave. The artist aims at walking a significant part of the victims of Stalin’s persecution.

Q

Milja Viita
Finland
2016 / 0:06:00

The artist’s firstborn son transformed, in the blink of an eye, into a young man. Q is a conceptual film about forces that change the world. Q takes us to the end of the worlds, the depths of the ocean and to the ruins of Atlantis. Q’s destruction is the road to new growth — it is the only promise of continuity and the emergence of new nations. Q is shot on 16 mm film whose surface has been hand-coloured. But what or who is Q ?

Volvano Room

Tommi Matikka
Finland, USA
2016 / 0:11:00

The viewer follows a 5-year-old girl into the depths of an island as she witnesses wonderous things: The island draws her to the source of its sweetness, a bridge emerges in the middle of the sea and the dead are smiling. Volcano Room is a thoroughly poetic short film. The narrative merges the past reign of large lizards, the borderless present, and the future that will never come. The viewer is led beyond fantasy – to an era where the animated dream images force him to take a deep breath and dive.