Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Today (1997)
Tänään consists of three short polemical episodes. The subject matter in the episodes is the relationship between father and daughter. In a summer night grandfather dies in an accident. The event is viewed through three different characters... The objective has ... (more)
Tänään consists of three short polemical episodes. The subject matter in the episodes is the relationship between father and daughter. In a summer night grandfather dies in an accident. The event is viewed through three different characters... The objective has ... (more)
Where Is Where? (2009)
Where is Where? is an experimental film that quarters the screen in order to have four different scenes play simultaneously. It's a meditation on the Algerian war that culminates in a brutal killing. (more)
Where is Where? is an experimental film that quarters the screen in order to have four different scenes play simultaneously. It's a meditation on the Algerian war that culminates in a brutal killing. (more)
The Annunciation (2011)
This charming and casually reverent work is an authorized single-screen version of an installation by celebrated video artist Ahtila. Amid stunning snow-draped forests, a women’s theatrical group rehearses a stage version of the Annunciation (the director is played ... (more)
This charming and casually reverent work is an authorized single-screen version of an installation by celebrated video artist Ahtila. Amid stunning snow-draped forests, a women’s theatrical group rehearses a stage version of the Annunciation (the director is played ... (more)
Love Is a Treasure (2002)
Love Is a Treasure is a 55-minute film about the world of women who have developed psychoses. It consists of five episodes each telling the story of one woman. The episodes are based research and interviews but the stories and dialogue are fiction, combinations of ... (more)
Love Is a Treasure is a 55-minute film about the world of women who have developed psychoses. It consists of five episodes each telling the story of one woman. The episodes are based research and interviews but the stories and dialogue are fiction, combinations of ... (more)
Me/We (1993)
ME/WE, OKAY, and GRAY consists of a short three-episode film and a 3-monitor installation. The installation is intended for showing in museums and galleries, and the episodes of the film version in cinemas among trailers and between the adverts on television. ME/WE ... (more)
ME/WE, OKAY, and GRAY consists of a short three-episode film and a 3-monitor installation. The installation is intended for showing in museums and galleries, and the episodes of the film version in cinemas among trailers and between the adverts on television. ME/WE ... (more)
Okay (1993)
ME/WE, OKAY, and GRAY consists of a short three-episode film and a 3-monitor installation. The installation is intended for showing in museums and galleries, and the episodes of the film version in cinemas among trailers and between the adverts on television. OKAY ... (more)
ME/WE, OKAY, and GRAY consists of a short three-episode film and a 3-monitor installation. The installation is intended for showing in museums and galleries, and the episodes of the film version in cinemas among trailers and between the adverts on television. OKAY ... (more)
Gray (1993)
The films are situated, both formally and narratively, in the terrain between short fiction and advertisements. They examine the differences and interactions between the two: the effects of the moving-image tradition and the language of film on advertising; and the ... (more)
The films are situated, both formally and narratively, in the terrain between short fiction and advertisements. They examine the differences and interactions between the two: the effects of the moving-image tradition and the language of film on advertising; and the ... (more)
If 6 Was 9 (1995)
If 6 was 9 tells a story about girls and sex. It shows a point of view to the sexual fantasies, habits, actions and wishes of teenage girls. The film shows the metamorphosis of five young women to a sexual being with the softest organs for taking and grasping. They ... (more)
If 6 was 9 tells a story about girls and sex. It shows a point of view to the sexual fantasies, habits, actions and wishes of teenage girls. The film shows the metamorphosis of five young women to a sexual being with the softest organs for taking and grasping. They ... (more)
Consolation Service (2000)
Consolation Service follows a young Finnish couple, Anni and J-P, as they make public their decision to divorce. It is set in early spring in Helsinki, with its frozen landscape on the cusp of thawing. (more)
Consolation Service follows a young Finnish couple, Anni and J-P, as they make public their decision to divorce. It is set in early spring in Helsinki, with its frozen landscape on the cusp of thawing. (more)