PASSERBY

HD video, 2013.
Stereo. Duration 24 min..

A young Japanese woman arrives to spend a day and night in Helsinki, and goes round by tram photographing Alvar Aalto’s buildings. Her places of pilgrimage are Finlandia Hall, Stora Enso’s Head Office, Aalto’s own home and his studio. This laconically constructed work takes us on a hypnotic journey into the main character’s inner world, and to Aalto’s buildings.

ROUND

Two Channel HD Video projection with stereo sound, 2011. 16:9. Duration 6,28 min.

The same story is played both by a man and a woman actor. Videos are show side by side simultaneously. The story of a two sequence is a loop.

The main character drinks alone at the bar. Suddenly the music stops. Time stops. A ray of light shifts slowly through the room. The main character walks out to the street. Finally he / she enters back to the bar.

THE SPELL

HD video projection, 2011.
Stereo. 2,54 min. Loop.

An elderly princess has fallen asleep in a middle of a tea party. All the guests are also sleeping heavily. They are seated as if they were on a stage. The candles are off. Roses have dried into the vase. Mist flouts around. The prince has not arrived. The princess has not been kissed and she has stared to get older.
The Spell is also a metaphor of present time. A party goes on as long as they have their eyes shot.

LA VILLETTE

Single-channel video with stereo sound, 2009.
Duration: 7.45 min. Screening format: DVD, 16:9.

La Villette was shot in the La Cité science museum in Paris. In the video we see, reflected on water, an image of the bridge that connects the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie building, designed by Adrian Fainsilber, and the adjacent La Géode film theatre. The framing turns the space between the two buildings into a stage, with a parallel world
reflected on the rippling surface of the water. The video consists of a single shot taken with a static camera. The tension in the piece derives from the movement within the image, accentuated by the soundtrack.

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WASTELAND

Single channel video projection with stereo sound, 2009.
Shot 16 mm film.
Duration 14.20 min. Screening format HD video, 16:9.

Wasteland is a feminist Western about ecological activists. Five women gather in early morning to start a long walk in a heated plain. In the afternoon a helicopter starts to follow them. They run to the forest and hide in to the bushes. When the sun sets down they reach the gate of an industrial area and break in.

Wasteland is shot in the area of Lake George, in New South Wales in Australia.

THE MOUNTAIN

Single-channel video projection with 5.1 sound, 2007.
Duration: loop, 8.50 min. Screening format: DVD, 4:3.
The mountain will be shown as a large projection.

The fog slowly covers the mountain. There is a sound of wind blowing. Suddenly from behind of the space is heard the sound of loudly speaking people. Then the guide shouts to the megaphone. There is no one in the video image. Eventually the sound of the crowd fades out to the wind. Video is shot in Yellow Mountain in China.

PRELUDE

Single-channel video installation with sound, 2007.
Duration: loop, 6:50 min.
Screening format: DVD, 16:9, Stereo.

The video image of the stairs in outdoors is projected to the starcase in the gallery space. The gallery stairs seem to continue out of the building. Suddenly the bubbles appear in the front of the image. The wind carries bubles up to the top of the stairs where they form a twirl. The dreamlike impression has been produced by playing the video backwards. The music in the soundtrack is simple and quiet, but melancholic.

RANGE

Single-channel video projection with sound, 2007.
Duration loop 11.50 min.
Screening format: DVD, 16:9, Stereo.

There is a large view of a landscape. The image of a meadow changes to the almost similar meadow by long crossdissolve. For a moment two images constitute a third landscape. What has been seen and understood alters.

In the soundtrack the wind whispers gently. The wind is cut by a hit of a piano chord. The landscape turns to another. The wind whispers. Unexpectedly another exactly similar hit by piano is played. Lancsape after another follows.

NIGHT

Short film/ Single-channel video projection with sound, 2007.
Duration: 6.57/ 6.40 min. Shot Super 16 mm film. Master Digital Betacam/DVD,16:9. Sound Stereo/5.1 surround.

A woman leaves a lonesome villa to the dark summer night. She follows a narrow path to the woods. She walks deeper and deeper. It is absolutely dark around her in the woods. Suddenly she stops; the lights of the car lit her face.
(Short film version. Installation version is a loop without titles!)

DRIVE

Short film / Single-channel video projection with sound, 2003.
Duration: loop, 9.15 min. Shot: super 16 mm color film. Master: Digital Betacam.
Screening format: DVD, 16:9. Stereo.

Drive is a road movie set in a snowy countryside starring a woman in her thirties. The sound track introduces the elements of a thriller movie to the story. The hypnotic journey and the thrill of speed combine at the borderline of the real and the imagined.

PHOTOGRAPH OF THE SEA

Short film/ Double-channel video projection with sound, 2002.
Duration: loop 4.57 min. Shot: 16 mm film. Master Digital Betacam. 16:9 Stereo

The film consists of two sequences: in the room and at the beach. The story is told by sound. No characters are visible. The camera shows what the characters see.

BEFORE RAIN

Short film / Single-channel video projection with sound, 1998.
Duration: loop 11 min. Shot: super 16 mm b/w film.
Aspect ratio: 4:3. Mono.

Before rain" is a black and white film about a young people in the city. The film is made up of ten short sequences in "film noir" style. Each sequence could be taken from every day life, the content of which is the suspense in and between each sequence, something has or is about to happen but is not revealed.