"TIME AND SPACE"

Sarah Gerats (Neatherlands)
Once Upon (2009)
8mm transferred to video.
Duration: 2:39

Anna Nykyri
"a shout - to touch - the silence" (2009)
(original title: "huuto - kosketus - hiljaisuus")

An experimental short film
Director: Anna Nykyri
Editor: Maria Haipus
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Stereo sound / No dialogue
Black and white
Composition: 4:3
Production: Finnish Academy of Fine Arts /Finland 1/2009

Ilkka Pitkänen
Urban Playground (2008)
Duration: 1:24
“If you don’t stop and look once in a while, you could miss the best playgrounds.”
She who plays: Pihla
He who takes  pictures: Juice Huhtala
He who cuts, pastes and directs: Ilkka Pitkänen

Heidi Saramäki

ONCE UPON A TIME... (2009)
Duration: 01:00
Stereo

English summary: Once upon a time...is a one minute animated visual poem. Film
is a vivid network of myths, stories and tales from different cultures. Through
metamorphosis and metaphors one builds up an absurd, associative cascade.

Elina Tuhkanen
With Regret I was a Haole (2008)
Duration: 1:56

Tuomo Tuovinen
Cockpits: Lovegeeks (2010)
Duration: 1:20
"The Lovegeeks-musicvideo for the lovely Cockpits band from Helsinki by Peter
Hänninen productions. Superkiss. Found footage. 1 min 20 sec."

Sakari Tervo & Juho Taavitsainen
Untitled (Draft #5) – (2010)
Duration: 2:22


Samu Nyholm

Milk (2010)
Duration: 1:40


Ilkka Pitkänen
Déjà-vu (2010)
Duration: 0:40

Ilkka Pitkänen
Add more lipstick (2008)
Duration: 1:10

Jani Purhonen & Riika Saarinen
We do voodoo 2 U (2010)
Video installation

Gregoire Rousseau (France)
“To your ears"
Duration: 3:50
"To your ears" is based on an installation conceived during the two rounds
of the 2007 French presidential elections. The installation has a three-part
attraction/fear structure where the head phones represent the attractive media,
the modified power cables act as the repulsive power network, and the switch on
the floor creates a critical situation: should the visitor turn it on or not?

Heidi Saramäki (Finland)

OLO (suburb) – (2009)

3:58 min
16:9 stereo/mute

English summary: Scene locates in a suburb. In the middle of the image there
lies a ball-like plant which starts to spread out. Leaves of the plant grow
over the houses, trees and all surroundings. In some point the plant begins to
coil.


Sanna Turunen & Simo Kontio
Sitruunat (Los Limones) – (2009)
Video: Simo Kontio, Sanna Turunen
Concept (idea): Relationship with the contemporary nature
Implementation: Installation with video Projection in a darkened space and
lemons
Duration: video 5:43 (5:55) shown as loop
A few words for the work:
Our need to belong somewhere is fundamential. We seek for different ways of feeling and creading this feeling. As a foreigner one way is to change
ourselves in different ways by reflecting the culture surrounding. On the other side there´s a strong need to hang on the culture which we come from.
Short biography:
“Original video was made in Andalucia, South of Spain in the spring 2009. At the time we were both studying fine arts in Spain (on term 2008-2009).
We partisipated in a video art course which took place nearby Malaga in a small village called Alora. The idea of belonning was a starting point in this
installation. The lemons in it can be seen as symbols of the culture.”

Ilkka Pitkänen
Watch Yourself (2007)
Interactive DVD

Carrie Schneider  (U.S.A.)
Dress of Good Weather (How Not to Fall) -  (2008)
16mm film transferred to DVD
Duration: 4:30

To fall is to momentarily lose control of the body, a feeling that can be both terrifying and exhilarating. When we stumble, we are displaced from our current train of thought and forced into acute awareness of ourselves, our bodies and surroundings. Here, then, we confront the limits of mimicry: a fall can be experienced first-hand but is impossible to replicate or reproduce mimetically, an idea which Carrie Schneider’s 16mm film Dress of Good Weather (How Not to Fall), 2008, dramatizes. A young woman (Schneider) is walking along the rocky shores of the Finnish seaside when she trips and falls. As she groggily arises, she looks down and sees her dress “ignite” with moving colors that evoke the sky on a beautiful day. Schneider’s “dress of good weather”—a reference to Jacques Demy’s  1970 film Donkey Skin—is an impossible object that reflects a fleeting circumstance. When  the images disappear, the young woman repeatedly throws herself upon the ground in an  unsuccessful attempt to recreate the original moment. The film ends with Schneider lying on  the rocky shoreline, staring into a pool of water that reflects the dark, drifting storm clouds  moving in the sky above. It is a moment of absolute physical presence, and it is perfect.

—Claudine Isé