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Sami van Ingen

The retrospective of Finnish short film is this year dedicated to Sami van Ingen (born 1964 in Hämeenlinna), who will attend the festival. The media artist creates film and video works and installations based on moving image.

The retrospective will see eight experimental short films by van Ingen. Included are Brachycera (1988), which depicts the entiments of the physically disabled, interpreted by hibernating flies, and Hammu (1991), a visualisation of memories of the disappearance of a pet hamster, of obsession and loss. The Sequent of Hanna Ave. (2006) is the result of van Ingen's reworkings of experimental film practices and enquiries into the phenomena of the movement-illusionism in the film form. Exactly (2008) is a re-arranged found footage with its original sound track re-united.

Exactly (2008)

Also screening is the full length film Just One Kiss – The Fall of Ned Kelly (2010), which will be accompanied live by Kemialliset ystävät and Risto Ylihärsilä. While the basis of the film is 1906’s Ned Kelly and His Gang, van Ingen’s film is a study on the ability of the medium to tell a story from images not directly related to one another. After each screening a shot or a scene is added to the original screening print, as a way to follow the traces of the original film.