The new Litku Klemetti album Kukkia muovipussissa will be released in March 2021. Tour de France is the second single from the upcoming album. Sanna approached me with the script for the video in October 2020 and we were set out to shoot in December but had to cancel at the last minute because of […]
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Tampere Film Festival 2021 Trailer
I envisioned this video back when the Hong Kong riots started in 2019. At first it was to become a music video, then a political art film, but when Tampere Film Festival commissioned a festival trailer from me I told them that I might already have something suitable. I scavenged the riot costume from flea […]
Tommi Liimatta – A Day in the Mouth episode 12
Tommi Liimatta is a comic book artist, a writer and a musician. He has many bands including Absoluuttinen Nollapiste, Herttomiehet and a solo project that he releases an album with once in a decade. Tommi has just released a new book in his biographical series.
Lau Nau Live in the Orchard
A Lau Nau live performance commissioned by frameless series Munich. Recorded live in Westers October 17th 2020. Directed and cinematographed by Sami Sänpäkkilä Music by Lau Nau Assistant Toni Laakso Thank you Westers Garden fonal.com launau.com frameless-muenchen.de
Ninni Luhtasaari – A Day in the Mouth episode 11
Ninni Luhtasaari is a primitive entertainer in music and visual arts. Luhtasaari is known from bands such as Ninni Forever Band, Maria ja Marsialaiset, Risto and Jari Raaste.
Amuri: Masa
Amuri: Masa music video is directed by Kalevi Suopursu and Sami Sänpäkkilä. It was filmed in the legendary Salhojankadun Pub.
Eleanoora Rosenholm: Moskova metro
Eleanoora Rosenholm’s Moskova metro music video has been in the making for well over a year. I made the first draft of the script already in March 2019 and we had the final script writing session with Mika Rättö in early November 2019.
Pentti Järvelin – A Day in the Mouth episode 10
Pentti Järvelin is a skateboarder, a comic book artist, a Youtuber and a lot of other things. After living in Helsinki for 11 years he moved to Oulu. I visited him after he had lived there a few months to film him skating.
Litku Klemetti: Keijukaisvalssi
When I first received the track Keijukaisvalssi I had a hard time figuring out how to circumvent a literal approach. We met with Sanna and Pekka from Litku Klemetti and Sanna explained the backstory that she had for the new upcoming album titled “Ding ding dong”. The album tells the story of Hullu-Sanna (trl. Crazy […]
M: Jos tulen takaisin
The artist M (or Ämmä amongst friends) is adventurous enough to go along with my crazy ideas. Minja Koski originally asked if I wanted to be the cinematographer for the music video for Jos tulen takaisin. But as the shooting deadline approached and we didn’t have a clear plan I started to propose ideas that eventually took over. Basically I hijacked the song.
Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K review
The release of the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K’s was highly anticipated. Blackmagic announced the camera in April 2018 and I got mine exactly a year later in April 2019. This Blackmagic Pocket 4K review will concentrate on how to get the best out of a very versatile camera and how it compares to the […]
Pelle Romantika & Kuolema-Duo: Monstro
Music video for Pelle Romantika & Kuolema-Duo that combines the doom like drones of Kuolema-Duo and spoken word poetry of Pelle Romantika.