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DVD, 2008 Animation with floating sculptures. |
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HYMN TO THE HELSINKI
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IRELAND VS BRAZIL A machinima film. The material consists of imagery from a football game machine at the Tampere airport. |
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THE GHETTO DEVICE Communication. Interaction. Digging in the socio-behavioural phenomena, but actually, before anything else, it's really about LOVE (and a little about Korean music). |
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BERLIN FILTER January 2006. Two artists spend a week in a flat in Kreuzberg , Berlin. One night they have an extraordinary experience which leaves them both unsettled and perplexed. They decide to make a film. While trying to reconstruct the events and find out what happened, they encounter fragments of the history of Berlin , filtered through the walls of the building. Paul Rowley: Screenings:
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WEEPING PILLAR The weeping column can be found in Aya Sophia in Istanbul . People stand in line to stick their fingers into a small niche and make a circle. It is said that if your finger emerges moist from the hole there, a wish can be granted. Screenings: 10th International
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DISCO TONIGHT? I've collected SMS-messages sent around as jokes from mobile phones to mobile phones... Consisting of simple ASCII signs, they still manage to tell a story... This video describes the disco feeling on the ferry between Finland and Sweden in the ASCII language. Screenings:
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WHERE'S THAT PIG?, 2005, DVD single channel, dur 1 min (video postcard) I've collected SMS-messages sent around as jokes from mobile phones to mobile phones... Consisting of simple ASCII signs, they still manage to tell a story... This video focuses on a figurine in a porn shop window. Screenings:
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LICK AND BITE I've collected SMS-messages sent around as jokes from mobile phones to mobile phones... Consisting of simple ASCII signs, they still manage to tell a story... The video shows a horse commenting in his own way on the struggle of a couple in the background. The video is a part of the excuisite corpse project Vi-Denial. Screenings:
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LIVING PAINTINGS The videos were made for the exhibiton "Sediments", curated by Taru Elfving. Due to restauration, Turku Art Museum (Finland) was forced to move to temporary location for a couple of years. After all kind of difficulties, the museum re-opened again in April 2005. The invited artists were asked to comment on about the role and function of the art museum today. I used images from the permanent collections, all very well known both to the local people as well as in Finnish art history, and combined them with layers consisting of footage from the surroundings of the art museum - the streets, the traffic, the people, the shops. The videos are semi-abstract
loops. Shown on monitors, they were placed in different locations, such
as shop Screenings: Hanoi, Vietnam 2006
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TURKU GOES OUKKIDOUKKI Sound "sim speach" by Gun Holmström and Valter Kokot/Ingrid Ung. The videos were made for the exhibiton "Sediments", curated by Taru Elfving. Due to restauration, Turku Art Museum (Finland) was forced to move to temporary location for a couple of years. After all kind of difficulties, the museum re-opened again in April 2005. The invited artists were asked to comment on about the role and function of the art museum today. "Turku goes Oukkidoukki" uses the world and language of a computer game to create a social space for the art museum. Screenings:
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VOYEUR The footage in Voyeur was filmed almost coincidentally. In summertime all kinds of people gather on the lawn around the Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki. I sat on the fourth floor and started to film people enjoying the sunlight, simply because the sight was so pleasant. Suddenly, in the corner of my eye, I noticed something odd - a lonely man sitting by himself just looking out of place. I started to follow his movements and mysterious things started to happen. What was he talking to the girls about? What strange object was he holding in his hand? Why did he seem so displaced? Voyeur is a story that told itself to me. Screenings:
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IN THE RAW Several years ago, I attended a lecture where the slides shown had no connection to the issue in question , or even to each other. The whole time I tried very hard to find some correlation because it seemed totally impossible that the images would have had nothing to do with what was being said. In In the Raw I used a similar technique. It is a kind of self-portrait, a video collage containing a wide range of footage and text from my own environment. It is a story about storytelling in different forms, a saga telling of -among other things - the spiritual aspect in everyday life. By combining elements with no apparent connections , I wanted to create a space that would allow for both the viewers' own associations and possibilities for new stories to evolve. I find distraction to be a useful tool for taking thoughts in unexpected directions. Screenings:
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installation view, Gallery Artmur, Canada
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I AM UNKNOWING I-III, part
I The three 1-minute video loops where made for the exhibition “Parameters of Fear” at the Muu Gallery in Helsinki 2004. The show examined manifestations of fear both a personal and social level. The original footage I chose from short clips from wars, news and movies available on the internet. While working with the material, images with obvious connections to the Christian theme of suffering started to appear... Screenings:
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I AM UNKNOWING I-III, part
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I AM UNKNOWING I-III, part
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MEMORIAL DAY The video was made in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, USA during a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts as an observation of the surroundings. Screenings:
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JESUS FALLS, The video was made in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, USA during a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts as an observation of the surroundings. Screenings:
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FOCAL POINT Concept, film and
editing: Gun Holmström Text from the video: The text is based on the censored parts from "Unnown Soldier" (1954), a novel by the Finnish author Väinö Linna. The complete version was published in "Sotaromaani" 2000. "Unnown Soldier" tells about when Finland was at war with the Soviet Union 1941-44 and is the most commonly read book in Finland. I've changed the text a bit, to make it fit in the womans mouth, and to give the impression that she could be speaking of her own life, a divorce process perhaps, or something like that. It's fascinating me that the text was something that couldn't be published for political reasons not so long ago. In the video it's even harder to understand since the sentences I've chosen to put in the video are "floating" without their original context. Screenings:
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BORDER Border is made of photographs from the border between Finland and the Soviet Union during the last war. This part is more abstract and meditative - but as in Focal Point, the enemy is there, but can't be seen. Screenings:
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SUNDAY I-III (Cross,
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THE CLEANING WOMAN
The starting point for "The Cleaning Woman" was my life in a suburb in Helsinki. The orginal footage is about the elderly woman who was cleaning the stairs in the house where I lived. The documentary part is shown together with a black and white animation about the same person. Screenings:
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KOSMOS I've known "Cosmos" since I was a child, we are born in the same little village in the archipelago in the south of Finland. He is still living there together with his mother and father. In the video he is presenting his view of the universe. "People like to think that the atom is very small, that the sun is very big, that the stars are very far away and that the universe is vast. But in fact the small doesn't exist without the big, and the big doesn't exist without the small, everything is connected. I don't really know if there is any difference between what's big and small. Maybe there are no proportions at all." "I wouldn't say that it's impossible to travel in time and space psychically, but because you are earthbound you become a sort of a shaman trying to see the Spirit - trying to "compose the Universe". That's not science any more, it's poetry." Screenings:
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TANJA SMOKES RED NORTH
STATE Tanja got blind a few years ago because of diabetes. I knew her from a distance before she got ill. The video is filmed in Tanjas home. She's got a talking clock and a talking computer. Tanja smokes strong North State cigaretts (traditionally a masculine, very strong "working-class" brand), while listening to the artifical voices (a talking clock and a talking computer) around her. Screenings:
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MOVING I Breathing... The video shows an empty room getting stuffed with furniture, until the process is reversed and the room is empty again. Screenings:
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MOVING II Houses (from different areas in Helsinki) covering the face of a young girl. Screenings:
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A WOMB OF ONE'S OWN A documentary video of a pregnant woman, who is about to give the baby to her close friends, a male couple. One of them is the father to this child. The biological mother tells plainly and openly about her situation and feelings. Screenings:
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REDBLACKBLUE In "Red, Black and Blue" I wanted to use a politically coloured palette for looking at the root values in my society. For the project I have interviewed three men, each representing different kinds of ideological thinking. Each interview is "coloured" in red, blue and black according to the social concerns of these men. The red and blue men are experienced "thinkers", and the black one is a young boy who calles himself an anarchist, but he is a bit uncertain about himself and his views. Screenings:
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TIME FROM NOW ON Video recordings of digital indicator board projected on the wall. Night photos and sounds from a bank, a grocery store, and an employment office. The process of "Time from now on" turned political, when I was prohibited filming the digital indicator boards. The reason was that the film would show a too narrow view of the activities in the employment office, and thus negatively affect its image. However, I was allowed to film in another city. Screenings:
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THE PRINCESS I recorded my own image as a silhouette on top of a famous "open-hearted" TV interview of Princess Diana. I am the anti-Diana, the flip side of the ideal womanhood. One cannot exist without the other. While Diana is pouring her heart out to the general public, the shadowgraph is gorging herself with food. The comparison refers to the humane imperfection which finally made Diana even more perfect as an icon of womanhood and martyr of love. Screenings:
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