Nastja Säde Rönkkö

#Introductions

Nastja Säde Rönkkö, Shia LaBeouf

Shia LaBeouf

Set entirely against a green screen, performance artist Shia LaBeouf recites dialogue submitted by the graduating class of Fine Art BA, with each monologue presented with intense dramatic range in a captivating episodic, artistic format.

#TAKEMEANYWHERE

Nastja Säde Rönkkö, Shia LaBeouf

Shia LaBeouf, Nastja Säde Rönkkö

LaBeouf, Rönkkö and Turner embark on a month-long project to hitchhike the internet, posting their coordinates online each day and waiting for a ride, with their path entirely in the hands of the public.

Dark Matter, Dead Fox

Nastja Säde Rönkkö

Guided by a voice of an old fox, the narrator describes a troubled relationship in an ambiguous domestic setting. The failings of contemporary society and the anxiety of a looming disaster can be sensed in the background. Thoughts about stardust and dark matter that bind together the entire universe offer glimpses of hope and solace.

Altered Breaths, Future Feelings

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Nastja Säde Rönkkö, Julia Vogl

A narrator from an undefined future discusses love, hope, future, beginnings, myths, environmental disasters and vanished species. The video investigates the possible end of an era, its entangled histories, open-ended narratives and flux identities. It aims to carefully glimpse into the possible futures of humankind and other kind: the vital necessity for co-dependence and urgency to remember, preserve and act now.

#ALLMYMOVIES

Nastja Säde Rönkkö, Shia LaBeouf

Shia LaBeouf

Shia LaBeouf watches all his movies in reverse chronological order over a period of three days while you can, via live stream, watch him, watch himself.

Above Our Horizon

Nastja Säde Rönkkö

In Above Our Horizon, we see the artist don a carnival mask of a bird’s head, whose exaggerated size and features hint at an uncanny reality being portrayed onscreen: a hybrid of our known and shared world and a dream world. It encompasses the sea, the air, which is crisscrossed by the flight of birds and bats and dotted with stars, a “sea salt whirlwind”, fire and a burned hill, as well as fish, which is grilled alive to provide sustenance.

ICELAND (Nighttime)

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Nastja Säde Rönkkö, Rosaliina Paavilainen

ICELAND (Nighttime) explores the collective mindset of anxiety and hope in epic, post-catastrophic landscapes. The video engages the most fundamental of human experiences: love, hope, fear, solitude and togetherness. Set in Icelandic landscapes that are romantic yet inhospitable, ICELAND (Nighttime) deals with the sensibility that we are close to the end of the world as we know it.

Milk & Decay

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Chris Vardala, Nastja Säde Rönkkö

The video resembles a nursery rhyme about different months, but within the poetic lines looms allusions to a planetary catastrophe. In a transformed world, resilient creatures like cockroaches, coyotes, and fungi are ready to take the stage.

How to skin a polar bear

Nastja Säde Rönkkö

Majestic shots of Arctic glaciers are contrasted with a poem where the voice-over steadily instructs how to skin a polar bear, from head to paws, from a living, feeling being to a pile of commodities.

A Seal Story

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Aino Lintunen

Filmed in a barren fishing community off the Icelandic coast and a trendy hotel in Helsinki, A Seal Story is a queer take on a contemporary love triangle. It takes its inspiration from the legend, where seals were believed to be former human beings who voluntarily sought death in the ocean. Once a year, they were allowed to come on land, strip off their skins and amuse themselves as human beings.