Imam in the Church
Imam in the Church Neukölln is a multicultural and especially Turkish district of Berlin. The performance took place as a part of a Lutheran service in the Finnish Lutheran church called Passion Kirche, on Valentines Day in 2010. Chalid Durmosch from the nearby Mosque Şehitlik-Moschee was invited to reflect on the subject of love with […]
Plato’s Symposium
Plato’s Symposium “Sometimes I turn around and catch the smell of you and I cannot go on I cannot fucking go on without expressing this terrible so fucking awful physical aching fucking longing I have for you“. Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis Loosely based on Plato’s Symposium, a performance inviting 30 guests to perform love letters, […]
Finnish Pavilions
Finnish Pavilions An installation that explores the concept of national identity through the architecture of imaginary Finnish pavilions. Constructed with polystyrene, a plastic material widely used for insulation and packaging and usually discarded after use. The soundtrack, composed with sounds produced with polystyrene, travels under the installation from its one end to the other, navigating the […]
Staande! Debout!
Staande! Debout! “C’est la lutte finale!” A fictionalized take on real life events following a car factory closure in the industrial town of Vilvoorde, in the Flemish Province of Belgium, as the years drift by and its former employees still can’t find work. A film co-directed with Stéphane Querrec. Film stills from Staande! Debout! Exhibitions […]
A poem to read when I’m gone
A poem to read when I’m gone “Welcome to the limbo of our society” A man, perhaps Syrian, Afghan or Kurd, flees from a refugee center at the former Berlin Tempelhof airport. From then on, he lives alone between the lockers at train stations, unobserved by passers-by, barred from life by fences. He murmurs a […]
In Relief 1 & 2
In Relief 1 & 2 “The back-page of History” In Relief is a unique collaboration with musician Sasu Ripatti – aka Vladislav Delay. Exploring two specific sites, La Rasude in Lausanne and DK Gaza in St. Petersburg, we aim at creating for each site an immaterial monument of the small anonymous corners of everyday life […]
Minä
(Minä) I “What if our greatest fear is not death but worthless life?” (Minä) I is a short film about unfulfilled desire, generic urban internalized conformity, and the archaic space of the primitive. Interpreted by actress Terhi Suorlahti, Ritva Oksanen and Elina Knihtilä, the film features an uncompromising original soundtrack by Vladislav Delay (Warp). Script […]
5, 50, 100 Years From Now
5, 50, 100 Years From Now “Our common goal is to move towards the stars, because they are above us. Hope is in the stars” 5, 50, 100 Years From Now is a short experimental video essay in which Neste gas station customers reflect on what they imagine to be in store for us: the […]
Itä-Pasila
Itä-Pasila “What does it mean to inherit a city?” Through a collective and experimental cinematic narrative, Itä-Pasila asks what is it like to live in Helsinki’s Itä-Pasila neighborhood today? This residential environment embodies the ideals of 1970s social democracy and structuralist architecture. Has the urban utopia of the past been realised in Itä-Pasila, which is […]
Works
Itä-Pasila 2024 5, 50, 100 Years From Now 2023 Minä (I) 2022 In Relief 1 & 2 2021 A poem to read when I’m gone 2020 Staande! Debout! (Standing) 2013 Finnish Pavilions 2012 Plato’s Symposium 2011 Imam in the Church 2010 La ruine du regard (The ruins of the gaze) 2010 Viesti (Relay) 2008 Sõprus […]