Matti Harju

Mies etsii miestä

Matti Harju

Asko Sahlman, Jussi Lehtonen

Fifty-year-old Seppo puts a contact ad in the newspaper. After many years, his son decides to look him up, just on the day that Seppo has a date. Sober and painful yet moving drama about loneliness and family bonds. - IFFR Duration: 12m Colour, Stereo Original format: Super 16mm film

El centro

Matti Harju

Young Anon discovers the digital root of everything during a school trip to New York and comes to a surprising conclusion.

One in Four

Matti Harju

Sion Tudor Owen, Barry Latchford

Haunted by his involvement in a suicide, train driver Sion struggles to comprehend the consequences somebody else's decision could have on his own life.

Afrikka

Matti Harju

Glenn Conroy

Young Finnish filmmaker Harju's disturbing, raw film gets up close to a psychotic man. We don't all live in the same reality. Nerve-wracking and frayed experimental fiction that shows a psychotic man and his direct surroundings in a totally uncompromising way. 'Our interaction with others is based on the idea that we all share the same reality. That turns out not always to be the case.'

Aliens

Matti Harju

A film about how language, be it film, art or written language, creates in itself a system where separation precedes contact.

Nueva era

Matti Harju

Janne Mäkinen, Matti Harju

In the cold northern light, the hours and the days of two friends, the mechanisms of daily life and the expectations of a decadent reality which reveals itself in the dawns and sunsets, in the nights spent drinking and the groggy mornings-after. The Finnish artist Matti Harju offers himself in this self-portrait of (his) life, perhaps involuntarily placid and sweet.

Minus World

Matti Harju

Nintendo game, codeine and online bdsm all blend in this minimalistic speculation circling and edging towards a new view of otherness within.