Sami van Ingen

Sami van Ingen

Sami van Ingen is one of the pioneers of experimental filmmaking in Finland. He has made over 30 short films, mostly dealing subtly with the act of seeing and using various strategies to manipulate found or forgotten footage. His films have been screened at festivals like Edinburgh Film Festival, Image Forum Tokyo, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento in Buenos Aires and in institutions like National Gallery of Art in Washington, Centre Pompidou in Paris and Anthology Film Archives in New York.

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Sami van Ingen Movies

  • 1986
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    Butter

    Butter

    1 1986 HD

    Experimental. Silent. No dialogue. Sami van Ingen is a veteran in alternative Finnish film, who has worked as an artist, lecturer and curator since...

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  • 1995
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    Sweep

    Sweep

    1 1995 HD

    Sweep is a road movie to memory, a realization of the need to review footsteps and past events which build myths. The camera gazes at the spaces...

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  • 2006
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    The Sequent of Hanna Ave.

    The Sequent of Hanna Ave.

    1 2006 HD

    The Sequent of Hanna Ave. is the result of my re-workings of some experimental film practices and my enquiries in to the phenomena of the...

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  • 1995
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    Sweep

    Sweep

    1 1995 HD

    Sweep is a road movie to memory, a realization of the need to review footsteps and past events which build myths. The camera gazes at the spaces...

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  • 2002
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    Study Reel

    Study Reel

    1 2002 HD

    A film by Sami van Ingen of Bruce Baillie

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  • 2004
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    Fokus

    Fokus

    1 2004 HD

    "Fokus is a stirring viewing experience. It is based on an extremely minimal visual form: contrasts, textures and glowing colors. Its visual language...

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  • 2023
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    Monica in the South Seas

    Monica in the South Seas

    1 2023 HD

    Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty, and seemingly the sole member of the family...

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  • 2023
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    Monica in the South Seas

    Monica in the South Seas

    1 2023 HD

    Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty, and seemingly the sole member of the family...

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  • 1991
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    Summer-Winter-Summer

    Summer-Winter-Summer

    1 1991 HD

    A documentation of an installation in Oulu 1991: An 8000Kg ice cube. A process where a passerby is faced with something familiar in a way that some...

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  • 1986
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    Butter

    Butter

    1 1986 HD

    Experimental. Silent. No dialogue. Sami van Ingen is a veteran in alternative Finnish film, who has worked as an artist, lecturer and curator since...

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  • 1996
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    Texas Scramble

    Texas Scramble

    1 1996 HD

    Texas Scramble is based on the notion of memory as the basis for our perception, it progresses through situations and moments consisting of...

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  • 2012
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    HATE

    HATE

    1 2012 HD

    Hate opens up the questions of the way the "other" is portrayed in the depiction of the Finnish national epic Kalevala.

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  • 2010
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    Stagecoach

    Stagecoach

    1 2010 HD

    Wheels where paramount in the conquering of the west, they made possible the transporting of building materials to build towns and cities. Wheels...

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  • 2008
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    Exactly

    Exactly

    1 2008 HD

    Exactly is some re-arranged found footage with its original sound track re-united. By omitting just the name of the protagonist I have turned this...

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  • 2018
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    Flame

    Flame

    7 2018 HD

    A fractured melodrama, based on damaged frames from the last minutes of the only remaining nitrate reel of the lost feature film Silja – Fallen...

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  • 2016
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    Manifest Destiny

    Manifest Destiny

    1 2016 HD

    Chance incidents of life and in the darkroom collide, as found footage film strips take new shape under a flashlight. Poetic gestures in the source...

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  • 1991
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    Moving Emu

    Moving Emu

    1 1991 HD

    Film by Sami van Ingen

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  • 1993
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    Finnmunka

    Finnmunka

    1 1993 HD

    An amateur set of images, an attempt to make a political documentary about the middle class revolution turns into an essay on the relationship...

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  • 1991
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    Hammu

    Hammu

    1 1991 HD

    Hammu is the name of the hamster I had as a child. It seemed it was my only friend and being to identify with. One day it disappeared from the cage...

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  • 2019
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    Pins

    Pins

    1 2019 HD

    Film by Sami van Ingen

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  • 2007
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    Deep Six

    Deep Six

    10 2007 HD

    Deep Six has three starting points: a little narrative re-edited from a Hollywood B-film (The Rage, 1998), an attempt to use the color photocopy as a...

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  • 2018
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    Flame

    Flame

    7 2018 HD

    A fractured melodrama, based on damaged frames from the last minutes of the only remaining nitrate reel of the lost feature film Silja – Fallen...

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