Mikael Rutkiewicz

27-year-old Mona works alone at a remote grill, studies again for the upcoming entrance exams and endlessly misses her spouse Helga, who is on a business trip. A new employee starts at the grill, 19-year-old lively and unbalanced Leo, who in all his likability makes Mona miss her past.

The meditative essay film studies the human inflicted changes in the environment through human perception and experience. The film is shot with a wide format Bolex UltraPan8 camera and developed by hand, partly with a spruce needle developer and partly with a chemical developer.

Recast is a satirical black comedy about how one can remain true to themselves through the gauntlets of the industrial machine - or can they?

A shared moment by a fire in the remains of an Eastern Finnish rural community. The lines between light and dark, past and present start to waver. It Takes Years to Reach Us is a meditation on remembering while we drift on.

A short documentary about the environmental art exhibition Oranki Art, set in the northern wilderness. People arrive, depart and age, while the artworks remain and decay. The film lingers on the moments when new works are born and become part of the seemingly eternal landscape.