Sami Sänpäkkilä | Films, music and photographs

Disco Ensemble: Protector

Published May 17, 2010 in Films.

For the second music video to be made off the new Disco Ensemble album the band asked once again a bunch of directors to submit scripts and ideas. I was pretty excited to hear that they liked my script enough to go ahead and shoot it. It was gonna be a big project that would require a lot of planning and preparation.

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Hangrip accessories and DSLR kits

Published April 24, 2010 in Gear Talk.

I was contacted by Hannu Kälkäjä of Hangrip a few months ago and he asked me to review some of their products on my web site.

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Glidetrack SD review

Published April 16, 2010 in Gear Talk.

FedEx dropped off the Glidetrack SD a few days ago. Took less than a week from the moment I made the order online to arrive to Finland from UK, fast service! I bought it specially for a music video I'm shooting end of April where I wanted to have very slow moving shots.

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My favourite apocalyptic movies

Published March 31, 2010 in Blurbs.

This is a rare one and quite hard to find. I'd never heard of it and was lucky to see it at a festival called Offscreen in Brussels, Belgium. One of the themes of the festival was apocalyptic movies. I saw about eight movies about the end of the world that week! My kinda fest! Threads was projected from an original 35mm print which added to the mood. It really takes you by surprise.

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Es – whats in a name…

Published March 23, 2010 in Blurbs.

Sometimes, not often by all means, people ask me what does Es mean? There's a few different explanations to it. First the letter S has been prominent in my life, hence my name :D

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Panasonic GH1 user experiences

Published March 21, 2010 in Gear Talk.

Since I graduated from school in 2005 I haven't really been able to afford to shoot on film anymore. I made a big investment in 2008 and got a Sony EX1 and a Letus Extreme and a bunch of good Canon FD lenses. A year later I sold the EX1 and the Letus and got the Panasonic GH1. Here's a little write-up on my impressions after half a year of use.

Tagged canon fd, diy, letus extreme, panasonic gh1, sony ex1, zoom h4n | 16 Comments

Disco Ensemble: White Flag For Peace

Published March 14, 2010 in Films.

I got a call from Jussi / Disco Ensemble that they have an idea for a music video and would need someone to shoot it. Only problem was that the video would need to be shot next week. So not much time to plan it. We decided that instead of making it a huge production, renting cameras and tons of equipment we'd do it with a minimal set-up and shoot it with my Panasonic GH1 DSLR...

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The White Ribbon

Published March 5, 2010 in Blurbs.

Funny games has been on my most hated films list ever since I saw it. I'm not gonna go into it but I really disliked it at a very deep rooted level. Later I saw Pasolini's Saló and I gotta say I liked that better but I wasn't surprised to read a while ago that Saló is one of Michael Haneke's favourite films. I think I saw Hidden as well but I've erased that from my mind completely...

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