A short collage film inspired by the lettristic movement, created in collaboration by experimental filmmaker Eino Ruutsalo and modernist poet Väinö Kirstinä.
Social & External
Unknown Role
“A pink moving screen will stand at the entrance to the theatre, in the night. One hour before the screening a projectionist will show Griffith’s Intolerance on this screen. The start of the film will be announced at 8.30 but no one will enter before 9.30. During these 60 minutes of waiting, people on the first floor of the building will shake out very dusty carpets, and someone else will throw ice water on the heads of those spectators waiting for the screening. Some actors who have infiltrated the crowd will insult other actors on the first floor. At this moment only, and to stop the beginning of a scandal, the doors of the theatre will open…”
In a bold and original approach to memory, this Lettrist-inspired film maps an anxiety-ridden plane journey from Tokyo to Helsinki without the aid of photographic images. A variety of interventions on the film strip are combined with an atmospheric sound design to create a subjective story of displacement and containment. In an age when experience is increasingly mediated through digital technologies, Taanila seeks out an alternative language in the sensuous surfaces of the celluloid material.
Anna and Eleni are unwillingly spending their summer in Berlin. On a Saturday evening, they find themselves strolling around, carrying an empty suitcase. They start singing. Soon they will have to face the unpredictably fatal consequences of a single wrong lyric.
The citizens of Athens are tormented by insomnia. Rumor has it that after dark an elusive creature is roaming the city streets. The film’s characters will cross its path during one night and for the first time in a while, they’ll go to sleep.
While living in his brothers house, Murph tries to keep his brother and his brother's fiancée from seeing the pictures he photoshops of her giving birth to him.
Alan struggles to find the courage to open up to his mother.
A worker who use her body to climb positions becomes entangled with the underworld.
In a small greek island, Prokopis is the only employee of the local airport.
Louise works as a human resources advisor. She operates in a tense work environment in which power dynamics take many forms. Trying to manage a conflict between the interests of the company and those of the employees, Louise will be confronted with various means of pressure oscillating between contempt and violence. Her choice will have serious repercussions.
A teenage boy trying to help his poverty-stricken family falls in with drug smugglers and ends up in prison where he forms an unlikely bond with a reformed gangster who protects him and helps turn his life around. Based on a true story of family, faith and redemption.
In 2006, when the Brazilian economy was taking off due to the discovery of oil in the pre-salt layer, Eike Batista decided to create the oil company OGX and hired the best men from Petrobras to participate in the pre-salt auction. But megalomaniacal plans and a series of misguided decisions and alliances cause their empire to crumble as spectacularly as it had grown. And Brazil watches, perplexed, the fall of Eike, who loses all his fortune, power and prestige. Inspired by the book by journalist Malu Gaspar.
The lives of nine Puerto Ricans are forever changed by Maria, the deadly hurricane that left thousands of families without a home and millions without access to water, food, electricity, medicine, and communications. Two years later, fate brings these nine people together to the epicenter of the protests that ultimately resulted in the Puerto Rican Governor's resignation, symbolizing the triumph (albeit short-lived) of the people over corruption.
An author dreams of writing an extraordinary story. A special moment comes when the dream comes true and the ability to write a fantastic story is emerged, but it is apparently too late…
A woman learns to love and rediscover herself after years of emotional abuse at the hands of her husband.
Disgruntled workers who have recently been fired join forces to plot a course of action to take in order to exact revenge upon their boss.Desmond Elliot, Joseph Benjamin, Omoni Oboli (2013)
A shy, reserved prince is ordered by his father the king to get married, however the two men do not see eye to eye on the qualities that a wife should possess.John Dumelo, Osita Iheme, Walter Anga (2012)