Sami van Ingen

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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.

Most Popular Sami van Ingen Trailers

Total trailers found: 19

Monica in the South Seas Trailer (2023)

03 November 2023

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty, and seemingly the sole member of the family with a hands-on interest in continuing the directing legacy.

Manifest Destiny Trailer (2016)

01 January 2016

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

Sweep Trailer (1995)

11 April 1995

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

Deep Six Trailer (2007)

01 January 2007

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 cinematic aesthetic and to explore the frame line as a dynamic visual element.

Moving Emu Trailer (1991)

01 January 1991

Film by Sami van Ingen

The Sequent of Hanna Ave. Trailer (2006)

01 January 2006

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 movement-illusionism in the film form.

Butter Trailer (1986)

01 January 1986

Experimental. Silent. No dialogue. Sami van Ingen is a veteran in alternative Finnish film, who has worked as an artist, lecturer and curator since the late 1980s.

Finnmunka Trailer (1993)

01 January 1993

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

Fokus Trailer (2004)

01 January 2004

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

HATE Trailer (2012)

01 January 2012

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

Pins Trailer (2019)

01 January 2019

Film by Sami van Ingen

Texas Scramble Trailer (1996)

01 January 1996

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

Hammu Trailer (1991)

01 January 1991

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

Flame Trailer (2018)

26 January 2018

A fractured melodrama, based on damaged frames from the last minutes of the only remaining nitrate reel of the lost feature film Silja – Fallen Asleep When Young (1937) directed by Teuvo Tulio.

Stagecoach Trailer (2010)

01 January 2010

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

Exactly Trailer (2008)

01 January 2008

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 recycled strip of film (cut for recycling purposes from a 35mm screening print into a 16mm leader by an unanimous lab years ago- thus the undulation of images) in to three meditations on the international market economy.

Cast of Shadows Trailer (2025)

31 January 2025

Sami van Ingen continues to explore the Flaherty film family with Cast of Shadows, which questions how much memories, images and end credits can lie.

Summer-Winter-Summer Trailer (1991)

01 January 1991

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 element of normality is transformed to abnormal.

Bruce Baillie Study Reel Trailer (2002)

01 March 2002

Finnish filmmaker Sami van Ingen, a great-grandson of Robert Flaherty, made an expedition to the residence of Bruce Baillie not long after the turn of the century and documented the results of his visit.