Is All

Is All

2021

Time, transience, and presence through interpretation, repetition, and imitation. 

Directed by Sini Pelkki · Written by Emma Hammarén

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Departing Shadow examines the forming of a connection and its failure. The interaction and attempted dialogue between a space, a performer and a camera. 
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A portrait of a figure standing towards a painterly seascape becomes a portrait of the photograph itself, its borders, surfaces and meanings.
PresentPresent · 2024
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A composition of a human figure placed in a challenging position. The impossibility of the composition is discharged into movement and sound, into a stream towards the free form of the performer, camera and image.
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Sheet No4 examines the outlines and borders of a photograph and a human being. Sheet refers to a contact sheet; a sketch of a photograph, where different options and outlines are visible.
EntranceEntrance · 2006
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A speeding moment in time, a blink of an eye, when the inner and outer selves reveal themselves simultaneously.
EmbarkationEmbarkation · 2013
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Moving image is framed and re-framed like the process of capturing still photographs, exploring the relationship between the still and the moving image.
A ReplacementA Replacement · 2014
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A Study of a human figure in a room.
ConcealmentConcealment · 2007
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2007
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LengthLength · 2016
Length
2016
Movie
The work examines the length of a thought, the length of a moment. Through repetition and rhythm, the piece builds a sense of a narrative, distance and closeness at the same time. We are looking at a figure in an urban landscape, soon to be dislocated. The Gaze abandons and re-draws the images. Perception grapples with distances; between the figure and its landscape, between the viewer and the piece itself.
StatueStatue · 2006
Statue
2006
Movie
From detail to landscape opens up a figure in the middle of a wintery landscape. The day turns into night, turning the human figure into a silhouette, a statue.
ChannelChannel · 2011
Channel
2011
Movie
The material of the piece is a found image—a photograph shot on a film positive in the 1950s, with faded colors and a scratched surface. The work directs the gaze away from the subject matter of the photograph and focuses intently on the edges of the image. It hovers beside the subject, looks past it, while a new image is created.
No Dot on the INo Dot on the I · 2022
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No Dot on the I questions specificity, what makes up the essence of something, where a thing turns into something else — pushing against the edges of signs, binaries, categories.
ExitExit · 2009
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2009
Movie
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Screen Test (for a Living Sculpture)Screen Test (for a Living Sculpture) · 2012
Screen Test (for a Living Sculpture)
2012
Movie
Commissioned by MoMA PS1 and Creative Time for MTV’s Art Breaks series
Rhythmic Line, Restraint, SpaceRhythmic Line, Restraint, Space · 2013
Rhythmic Line, Restraint, Space
2013
Movie
The gaze slides back and forth with the camera along the edges of the image. It seems to be searching for a way out but gets stuck in its repetitive motion, like a thought that has become fixed in place.

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