Jan Ijäs
Jan IJÄS (1975, Finland) is a filmmaker and media artist, who lives and works in Helsinki. His works regularly deal with serious and difficult social themes and are often shown as an installation. Ijäs’s films have been shown at several film festivals worldwide, and in museums and galleries.
Filmography
(all short) The Surftones – Sportinghouse (2004), Ode To Joy (national anthem of EU) (2005), Dancing Nazi Skinheads (2005), KIDS MOVIE (2005), A Film for Three Men and Industrial Elevator (2005), Eläkeläiset 10th Anniversary Humppamarathon (2005), Spectacle (2006), Sweet Mov(i)e (2010), Bodybuilding (2010), Two Islands (2012), Solitude in Year Zero (2013), One Shot (2015), Waste no. 2 Wreck (2016), Time Capsule (2016), Social Connection (2016), Waste no. 1 Money (2017), Waste no. 3 Boom (2017), Waste no. 5 The Raft of the Medusa (2017), On the Art of the Set Design (2018), Helsinki Acts (2019), Waste No. 4 New York, New York (2020)
Jan Ijäs op IFFR
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Two Islands
Jan Ijäs | 5' | Finland | None
Staten Island and Hart Island, New York. Two enormous landfills. One for scrap metal, the other for the unclaimed dead. -
Waste No. 4 New York, New York
Jan Ijäs | 20' | Finland | World premiere (festival)
Ghostly, 16mm footage of Fresh Kills in New York, the world’s largest rubbish dump. A final portrait of Western civilisation. -
Waste No. 2 Wreck
Jan Ijäs | 10' | Finland | None
Filmed in the graveyard for refugee boats on Lampedusa. A story about how the value of garbage and rubbish can surprisingly change. (AV-arkki)