I saw some good movies during the second half of the Love & Anarchy film festival as well. Here’s three.

Possibly the best film I saw during the whole festival was Nicolas Klotz’s Heartbeat detector. The original, and much more evocative title is La question humaine. The movie is about the rhetoric and language of a [...]

We got the photos of our summer wedding today. Its been lovely looking through them. I see so many moments captured that I didn’t see at the wedding, because I was in the spotlight.
All the pictures are by Katri Lassila, who did a wonderful job.

There’ll be a screening of some of the short films made for the Uneton 48 competition, our movie Pyhää maata among them.
The screening is in Helsinki, at the movie theatre Andorra, on Thursday 2nd of October, 17:00-19:00. Tickets for the screening of eleven shorts are 7 €.

Another YouTube find, this is a video by the Solevian hip hop group Ironic Tronic, of a song called We Don’t Want Laibach.

That sounds like the name of some kind of a pulp politician. But actually its about the song Play, Rew, F Fwd by Plutokazi, featuring Milan Fras of Laibach as the voice of the bear.

via Coilhouse

I’ve been sitting through the Love & Anarchy film festival, which started last Thursday and will go on until next Sunday.
So far, the best movies have been these three:

Ken Loach’s It’s a Free World… is a story about a woman who is fired from her job at an employment agency and sets up her own, [...]

Russian nerds party in Tanya Zommer’s photos:

from Tanya Zommer / zo
via English Russia

Documentary: Werner Herzog: Encounters at the End of the World (U.S.A. 2007)
A kind of a sequel to Herzog’s scifi speculation documentary The Wild Blue Yonder, this is a movie about the people who go to work in Antarctica. Its a very good movie, poetic and beautiful even when it doesn’t make anything prettier than it [...]

Issue #17 of Roolipelaaja (The Roleplayer), the roleplaying magazine I edit, is now at the printers.

Here’s a couple more photos from our short film Pyhää maata (Soil of Our Fathers):

(Photo: Matti Näränen. Osma Rautila, with Matti Onnismaa in the background. In the movie, they were father and son.)

(Photo: Matti Näränen. Discussing a shot. From left to right, Pekka Aikio, Aino Lappalainen, Joona Pettersson and Juhana Pettersson.)

(Photo: Elina Lindroos. Hospital basement, [...]

(Kuva: Matti Näränen. Lyhytelokuvan Pyhää maata kuvauksista.)
Olin mukana joukkueessa, joka osallistui Uneton48-lyhytelokuvakilpailuun. Ideana oli tehdä lyhäri alusta loppuun 48 tunnin kuluessa.
Ohjasin elokuvan yhdessä vaimoni Maria Petterssonin kanssa, ja olimme eilen illalla Andorrassa palauttamassa luomustamme yhdessä tuottajamme Elina Lindroosin kanssa. Palautustiskillä oli kuumottava laskuri. Olin itse paikalla ensimmäisenä, koska olin joutunut hakemana vielä yhden allekirjoituksen näyttelijäsopimukseen [...]

Non-fiction: Mike Stroud: Shadows on the Wasteland (Penguin, 1994)
The copy I got from Amazon’s used books is signed! The book also has an unusually poetic title, with the reference to the T.S. Eliot poem Stroud also quotes at the beginning of the book:
Who is the third who walks alwaus beside you?
When I count, there are [...]

I’m in a team participating in a short film competition called Uneton 48. The idea is to make a film in 48 hours about a subject you only get to know at the beginning. In our case, Mike Pohjola wrote the script on Friday night, and we shot yesterday with me and my wife Maria [...]

From Emir Kusturica movies I found the fantasy of having your own orchestra provide background music wherever you go, but I’ve always suspected my orchestra would be more like this…

via If Destroyed, Still True

I wrote an article for the magazine Kumppani about the Iraq War movies shown at the Love & Anarchy Film Festival in Helsinki, starting next week. They put it on the net, it’s available here (in Finnish).