EDUCATION
2014 Master of Arts, ELO Film School Finland, Documentary Film Directing, Aalto University 2013 - 2014 Erasmus Programme, Cinéma et Audiovisuel, Université La Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3
2005 Art School MAA, 3 Years Day Program
SHORT FILMS
2022 Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, music video for Queens Duo, 10'
2021 Flying Potato and Other Misunderstandings, 14’
2019 Paris Diaries, 12´
2018 Hotel President, 5'
2018 Govadas, 9’
2016 The Sound of Tempest, 30’
2016 Le Temps de l’Escargot, 20'
2013 The Tempest, 40’
2011 Pelléas et Mélisande, Part I, 16’
2010 The Dance, 3’
2009 Splittings at the Edge of Heaven, 16'
VIDEO ART
2017 Family Portraits in the Blink of an Eye, 3
2016 Change of Faces (Kasvojen vaihdos), 7'
2015 / 2012 Missing Tapes from a Highway Set, 8' / 16'
2010 Territorial Nervous System, video, 6’
FILM FESTIVALS, SCREENINGS AND FILM CONCERTS
2023 Ribalta Experimental Film Festival, Vignola, Limina Competition: Flying Potato and Other Misunderstandings
Be Polar Film Festival, Kino Amondo, Warsaw: Govadas
2022 Encounters Film Festival, Bristol, international competition: Flying Potato and Other Misunderstandings
SPHERE Festival's opening concert, National Arts Centre Ottawa: Change of Faces -short film,
screened with composer Outi Tarkiainen’s song cycle: Eanan, gida nieida
CulturaFest, Helsinki: Govadas
Black Canvas CFF, México City, New Horizon Shorts -competition: Flying Potato and Other Misunderstandings
BeNature -concert, Bielefeld, Germany, participating with four short films as a guest artist, collaboration with Queens Duo
Helsinki International Film Festival, Shorts Competition: Flying Potato and Other Misunderstandings
New Horizons International Film Festival, Wrocław, Poland: Govadas
Go Short International Short Film Festival, Nijmegen, European competition: Flying Potato and Other Misunderstandings
2021 Nordische Filmtage Lübeck: Flying Potato and Other Misunderstandings - world premiere
FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter, Berlin: Govadas
Concorto Film Festival, Focus selection: Govadas
when the light hits just right - analogue film & photography festival, by Filmverkstaden, Vaasa:
Govadas at Creating doesn’t stop -screening, curated by Kari Yli-Annala
12è FIFEQ Festival International du Film Ethnographique du Quebec: Govadas
51st Tampere Film Festival, Freedom to Move -screening of AV-arkki: Hotel President
Kuopio Symphony Orchestra, online concert: 18.2.2021, Change of Faces -short film,
screened with composer Outi Tarkiainen’s song cycle: Eanan, gida nieida
2020 24th Split Film Festival, International Short Film Competition: Paris Diaries
2019 57th Gijón International Film Festival, screening of Govadas
61st Nordic Film Days in Lübeck, screening of Govadas
21e Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, screening of Govadas
Seoul International NewMedia Festival, Korea, screening of Govadas
Tampere Film Festival, National Competition: Govadas
Skábmagovat Indigenous Film Festival, Inari, Finland, screening of Govadas
2018 MUU Gala, Kuryokhin Centre, St. Petersburg, Russia, screening of Hotel President
MUU Gala, Helsinki, screening of Hotel President
Rex Fest, Amos Rex, Helsinki, screening of Govadas
Festival Curta Cinema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, International Competition, Govadas
Uppsala International Short Film Festival, International Competition, Govadas
Antimatter Media Art Event, Victoria BC, Canada, Screening of Govadas at Deluge Gallery
Screening of Change of Faces, with live orchestra: Arctic Philharmonic, Tromsø, Norway
Indigenous Film Festival, Pine Ridge, South Dakota, US, world premiere: Govadas
Vaasa Wildlife Nature Film Festival, screening of Govadas
AAVE Festival, Helsinki, Finland, film concert: The Sound of Tempest with Aino Eerola and Jyri Pirinen
2017 Pori Film Festival, Finland: The Sound of Tempest -film concert with Aino Eerola and Jyri Pirinen, screening: Kuvahinen
Kaivos-Festival, Outokumpu, Finland: Change of Faces with live music: Henrik Sandås, accordion
2016 Korundi -House of Culture, Rovaniemi, Finland,
SAJOS, Sámi Cultural Centre, Inari, Finland: two concerts with video work: Change of Faces (Kasvojen vaihdos) with composer Outi Tarkiainen and her work: "Eanan, gida nieida"
Flow -festival, Helsinki, Finland, film concert: The Sound of Tempest with Aino Eerola and Jyri Pirinen
Silence -festival, Kittilä, Finland, premieres: The Sound of Tempest -film concert with Aino Eerola and Jyri Pirinen, screening: Le Temps de l’Escargot
EMAP, Ewha Media Art Presentation, Seoul, South Korea, screening: The Tempest
2015 Gallery Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki, Finland, screening: Missing Tapes from a Highway Set -Remake
Nordic Film Fest, Rome, Italy, screenings: The Tempest and Pelléas et Mélisande, Part I
2013 Nordic Talents, Copenhagen, Denmark, screening: The Tempest
April Jazz -festival, Espoo, Finland, film concert: Missing Tapes from a Highway Set with Olavi Louhivuori
and his band Oddarrang
2012 Finnish National Theatre, Lavaklubi, Helsinki, premiere, film concert: Missing Tapes from a Highway Set with
Olavi Louhivuori and his band Oddarrang
St. Petersburg Student Film Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia, screening: Pelléas et Mélisande, Part I Cinema Theatre Orion, Helsinki, film concert: Pelléas et Mélisande, Part I with the music Jean Sibelius,
conductor: Dalia Stasevska
2010 UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art, New York, US, screening: Splittings at the Edge of Heaven
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Synnyin - photography exhibition, Fotocentrum Raseborg, Finland
2022 Synnyin -short film installation, Forum Box, Helsinki
2022 Lentävä peruna ja muita tulkintoja, Culture House Laikku's Studio, Tampere, Finland
2019 Forum Box: Mediabox -space, Helsinki
2018 Among The Shadows, Hippolyte Studio, Helsinki
2017 Kuvahinen, Galleria Huuto, Pikkujätkä, Helsinki
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 If I Will Be You, Turun Taidehalli, Finland, two person exhibition with Yassine Khaled
2019 Art Fair Suomi, International Contemporary Art Festival, Cable Factory, Helsinki
2018 imagine., MUU Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2017 Kaupunki, Haihara Art Centre, Tampere, Finland
2017 Silence, Please, Gallery Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki
2017 Art Fair Suomi, International Contemporary Art Festival, Cable Factory, Helsinki
2010 Citizen Kanen jalanjäljissä, Helsinki
RESIDENCIES AND NOMINATIONS
2019 Artist Residency in Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2017 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2016 Mazzano Romano, Väinö Tanner Foundation, Italy
2015 Circolo Scandinavo, Rome
2013 - 2014 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2012 Sergey Dobrotvorsky’s Diploma, Seance -magazine: "For the fruitful search of sources of
the impossible" -nomination at St. Petersburg Student Film Festival for the film Pelléas et Mélisande
2010 Honorary Award, Dodo ry, Short Film Competition: “Mikä meitä liikuttaa” for the film The Dance
MEMBERSHIPS
2019 - Finnish Film Directors' Guild
Finnish Documentary Guild
2017 - AV-arkki ry
2016 - Kuvasto, copyright society