Author: lilja
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Brothers
Brothers is a short film about the different perception of the world around us by children compared to adults. Children’s mind is still a blank canvas with lots of space for imagination, whilst adults have already spoiled it with symbols and meanings. The film premiered at Haida Gwaii Film Festival 2016 and was also screened at
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Deadweight
Deadweight is my latest film. It’s a co-production with musician Finkseye. The longer “short movie release” has not premiered yet, but the music video cut is available at Finkseye’s Youtube channel. The film was premiered at Kouvola Film Festival in October 2015.
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Brainwash
My latest short. The film was premiered at Kouvola Film Festival in October 2015. Film was also chosen to compete as part of the the experimental film programme at Helsinki Short Film Festival in November 2015.
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Platform
We live in a hectic worked, where everyone just cares about themselves. People are not really in hurry, but the society has planted in their mindsets. They need to run and hurry. they need to use their elbows to be before others. They need to fit in the train that is already a full. Platform
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Hidden / Exposed
Hidden / Exposed is a project that is experimenting how Internet can on other hand bring a single image or text into the spotlight and gain huge publicity as on the other hand you can publish hundreds of hours of material that is available, but still not really exposed to public. In this ongoing project Juha
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The Most Beautiful Haiku With Ugly Illustrations
This book is a continuation for the earlier project. Instead of studying the transition from analog to digital, this one studies the relevance of rules. Haiku is a traditional form of poetry with strict rules about the form and content. The book experiments how the illustrations change the content of modern haiku, where the abstraction
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Putinate
Putinate is a digital work, that consists of animated gif-image and a randomly changing text. The work reminds the viewer, that despite the times, same rhetoric is re-used in political messages. The speech contains quotes from Adolf Hitler, Joseph Göbbels, John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln etc. Digital Internet Media 2014
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Rabbit mask composition
This is another study about transformation. The key piece, a “splicer mask” is taken from a video game. The composition started with the mask itself and evolved involved into a photograph and resulted in two oil paintings, where the second one is an analog composite between the photograph and the first painting. Oil on canvas,
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SLEEP
Sleep (2013) is an eight-hour moving image work that began as a technical experiment and evolved into an ongoing exploration of time, presence, and perception. Referencing Andy Warhol’s unrealized eight-hour ambition, the piece uses contemporary consumer technology, a pocket camera, improvised rigs, and fragmented “dream” sequences—to construct a layered experience that exists between documentation and
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