Sami van Ingen
Sami VAN INGEN (1964, Finland) has worked as an artist, lecturer and curator since the late 1980s and is considered one of the pioneers of experimental filmmaking in Finland. He has made over 30 short films, using various techniques to manipulate found or forgotten footage and has screened them at festivals including Edinburgh, IFFR and BFI London Film Festival, as well as institutions such as the National Gallery of Art in Washington and Centre Pompidou. His short film Flame (2018) won several awards at international festivals, such as Ann Arbor Film Festival, Split FF, Flatpack FF and Fronteira FF. Monica in the South Seas (2023) had its world premiere at IFFR 2023.
Filmography
Butter (1987, short), Kaikki Suomemme poliisit (1987, short), Brachycera (1988, short), Sweep (1995, short), Texas Scramble (1996, short), The Blow (1997, short), Days (2000, short), Bruce Baillie – toeksia ja tarinoita (2002, TV), Deep Six (2007, short), Stagecoach (2010, short), Hate (2012, short), Polte/Flame (2018, short), Monica in the South Seas (co-dir. 2023), Cast of Shadows (2025)
Sami van Ingen op IFFR
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Cast of Shadows
Sami van Ingen | 121' | Finland | World premiere
Sami van Ingen presents an additional narrative to his grandfather, Robert Joseph Flaherty’s legacy. -
Monica in the South Seas
Sami van Ingen, Mika Taanila | 72' | Finland | World premiere
Elegant, ironic and melancholic essay on authenticity, based on the making of Monica Flaherty’s Moana with Sound. -
Moana with Sound
Robert J. Flaherty, Frances Hubbard Flaherty, Monica Flaherty | 98' | USA | None
Daring musique concrète version of Robert Flaherty’s 1926 docu-fiction masterpiece, created a half-century later by his daughter Monica. -
Polte
Sami van Ingen | 15' | Finland | World premiere
From a few surviving images from the Finnish film Fallen Asleep When Young (1937), an other-worldly melodrama is distilled. Passion, deeply human