"Kotka (The Eagle)" (7 minutes, 1962, Finland)
dir. Eino Ruutsalo
chor. Riitta Vainio
music. Otto Donner
The
film is a masterpiece by the pioneer of Finnish experimental
film Eino Ruutsalo and legendary Finnish dancer Riitta Vainio.
Poignant, touching and symbolic, it is truly a dance film classic.
"The
Artist" (12 minutes, 2010, Finland)
dir. Esa Illi
perf. Marc Gassot
Young
performance artist Marc arrives in North full of anticipation.
He soon finds out that October weather and Northern people are
relatively cold.
Marc
tries his best, but there is not a single laughter heard in
the streets. Marc starts to lose his faith – http://www.cineworks.fi/completed-films/28/63.
"365
Days - Reijo Kela video-dairy" (18 minutes, 2006, Finland)
dir./chor. Reijo Kela
“At
the end of Millennium, I felt like making a little dance every
day and recording it with my video camera. I organized this
filmed material into a series of images, which travel within
the frame from right to left, continuing the following day
wherever I was. The reality dramatically altered my plans.”
- Reijo Kela
"An
Ant" (23 minutes, 2010, Finland)
dir./chor. Kimmo Alakunnas
An
Ant tells the story of a workaholic whose sense of reality
is blurring. It becomes impossible for him to return from
the imaginary worlds to reality. http://kimmoalakunnas.blogspot.com/p/ant.html
"North Horizon" (14 minutes, 2009, Finland)
dir./chor. Thomas Freundlich and Valtteri Raekallio
Spitsbergen,
Svalbard is a silent world of wind, waves and ice. The abandoned
villages stand here, at the edge of the northern ocean, housing
forgotten dreams and the wordless tales of the unknown departed.
The film explores these images through the enormous contrasts
of scale between the moving human body and the seemingly still,
boundless Arctic landscape. It is a unique artistic and environmental
journey from the far edge of the world. http://www.north-horizon.fi/
"Death
of an insect" (7 minutes, 2010, Finland)
dir: Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen
music: Joonatan Portaankorva
In
a lifeless urban landscape where time itself has stopped its
crawl, a mad ballet is commencing, and a newly hatched butterfly
is about to die. This tragic story was constructed out of
the dead insects gathered from forgotten attics and tool sheds,
between window panels and cobwebs. It combines a number of
animated techniques from stop-animation to 3-D modeling of
x-ray CT-scanned insects – http://www.pohjankonna.fi/
