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 €.
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Antarctic Research Blog #73: Encounters at the End of the World
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 Continue Reading
Roolipelaaja 17 is now at the printers
Issue #17 of Roolipelaaja (The Roleplayer), the roleplaying magazine I edit, is now at the printers.
10 minuuttia aikaa jäi yli…
(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 Continue Reading
Antarctic Research Blog #72 – Shadows on the Wasteland
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 Continue Reading
Uneton 48
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 Continue Reading
Human War Movies
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).
Mike Pohjola keskusteluohjelma Mariassa
Kaverini ja rikoskumppanini Mike Pohjola oli keskusteluohjelma Mariassa uuden kirjansa tiimoilta keskiviikkona3.9.2008:
Lumimyrsky documentation
(Photo by Aarni Korpela) I created a documentation page for my larp Lumimyrsky (Snowstorm), played in Ropecon 2008. You can access it by clicking on the link in the right sidebar or here.
Antarctic Research Blog #71: Scott of the Antarctic
Film: Charles Frend: Scott of the Antarctic (U.K. 1948) This is the old Ealing Studios version of Scott’s fatal, final adventure. At the time the movie was made, Scott was still a saint, and you can see it in the film. This is not a movie so much as a Continue Reading