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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • EMS Nr 1

    Visionary film featuring electronic sounds Ralph Lundsten recorded at the Electronic Music Studio of the University of Helsinki on machines built by E
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  • Remembrance – A Small Movie About Oulu in the 1950s

    Peter von Bagh takes us on a trip to his homeland and Oulu, a small Finnish town, tracing the turbulent changes it has undergone in…
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  • Electronics in the World of Tomorrow

    Cut-out images from American magazine Electronics rotating on a turntable create a vertiginous effect and form the steady basis of this hypnotic film.
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  • The Punched Tape of Life

    In this satirical film Kurenniemi intuitively explores the possibilities of a symbiosis between man and machine in the light of contemporaneous knowle
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  • Spindrift

    In 1965 Swedish composer/musician Jan Bark proposed an experiment for a new kind of ‘music for black-and-white TV’. Bark’s friend Erkki Kurenniemi pro
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  • Kinescope

    Eino Ruutsalo’s cinematic testament: discarded footage, kinetic experiments and unexposed stock. Treated by throwing them on the floor and walking on
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  • The Jump

    Deafening composition by Erkki Kurenniemi paralleled visually by a brief sequence shot in a street – a group of men and children seem to cover…
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  • Wind Music

    After Scores are blown away from stands by wind from a strong fan in the wings as the orchestra tries to hold them. (AV-arkki)
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  • Concrete Night

    Celebrated documentary maker (The 3 Rooms of Melancholia) has made a fiction film again for the first time in years. An impressive display of what…
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  • Black and White Movies

    The destruction of a VHS collection is documented by photograms of the material remains. Each film was destroyed in the spirit of its story.
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