Short films

On a remote island, three fishermen encounter something unexpected.

Hamza, an international student in Helsinki, reflects on his next move in life during his summer break. He needs to decide if he will accept a job opportunity in Toronto or return home to Lahore after graduation. During the summer, Hamza wanders the city ritualistically to gain clarity for his decision. He meets an older man from his neighborhood who jokes about his dog being a racist, a musician who works in Turku but returns to Helsinki every night to sleep, and a massage therapist who has not had a vacation in five years due to a curse.

“Imagine assembling a jigsaw puzzle, but one in which the pieces are not two-dimensional and the resultant image is at first unfamiliar, yet explains itself and its relationship with all that is living.”

Reflections on a Forest (working title) is a film that builds an image of a forest and of the being of different living creatures in a shared space. This told through several simultaneous images, which form an entity that creates and transforms the space of a forest. The purpose of the work is to continue the process of change in visual presentation and the construction of ecological moving image narrative. It is an experiment about how the apparatus of the moving image might be adapted to narration in which information can only be conveyed by realigning the very instruments of that apparatus

Young immigrant is trying to woo a Finnish lady by making dinner for her, unsuccessfully. Behind the camera, a young filmmaker fails to convey an idea to the crew.