Imagine everyday! Film Screening Event

Schedule

16:00〜
Opening words
Performance: Maima Tani and Satu Tani
Short film screening: Breathing reef (2023, 7 min 25 sec), Maima Tani and Satu Tani
Short film screening: The Decomposition (2025, 8 min 46 sec), Maima Tani and Satu Tani
Performance: Kalevi Helvetti
Short film screening: The Boxer (2025, 6 min 15 sec), Kalevi Helvetti and Kalle Pajamaa
Short film screening: The Plague of New York (2019, 6 min 30 sec), Kalevi Helvetti and Kalle Pajamaa
Break
17:00〜
Documentary screening: The Punk Syndrome (2012, 1 h 25 min), Jukka Kärkkäinen, J-P Passi, Mouka Film
Q&A
19:00 Event ends

Breathing reef (2023, 7 min 25 sec)

A short film by Maima Tani and Satu Tani

A colorful crocheted coral reef dances on the seashore. A black oily figure crawls out of a huge clam and attacks the reef. The coral reef bleaches and dies. Later, with the help of a kind shaman, the reef hatches from an egg, renewed, and returns to the sea.

Working group : Satu Tani (script, directing), Maima Tani (script), Santtu Susitaival (1st assistant director, director of photography, colour correction), Heidi Järvinen (editing, sound design, Oliver Tani & Petteri Vehmanen (set production assistants), starring: Satu Tani, Maima Tani, Milja Tani. Thank you: Pauli Partanen, Arts promotion centre Finland. 

The Decomposition (2025, 8 min 46 sec)

A short film by Satu Tani & Maima Tani

A strange divine being spins a huge ball of dung in a field, tirelessly. In the café, a person enjoys their position as the “crown of creation”. The person is starting to get a little bit out of control. Elsewhere, in a neuro-strange future, Microfibre Clothes Moth and Moth are shaping their environment in different processes.

The Decomposition (2025) is Satu and Maima Tani’s second short film, which premiered at the OAF X Espoo Ciné film screening. The film was made with a working group at OAF Academy as a commission for the Espoo Ciné film festival. 

Working group: Satu Tani (screenwriter, director, producer, costume designer, Microfibre Clothes Moth), Maima Tani (screenwriter, costume designer, Moth/Goddess), Emmi Sirola (human), Santtu Suvitaival (director of photography, 1^st assistant director, colour corrector, mentor), Heidi Järvinen (editor, sound designer), Kati Kallio (mentor) + assistants, driver. Starring: Emmi Sirola, Maima Tani, Satu Tani, Dung ball built by: Pauli Partanen, Assistants: Anni Kulmala, Rene Mattila, Viktor Maddox, Milja Tani & Oliver Tani. Thank you: OAF Academy, Pertin Valinta, Kone Foundation, Arts Promotion Centre (South Savo Arts Council), HOK Elanto and Restaurant Lasipalatsi, Kuitu Media, Ville Ristolainen, Utopia Club/Anni Kulmala & Aarne Ekström, Vegetable Rebellion/Hanna Hurtta, Jukka, Simo, Johnny W., Juha. OAF Academy is supported by the Kone Foundation. Satu Tani’s artistic work is also supported by the Arts Promotion Centre of Finland.

The Boxer (2025, 6 min 15 sec)

This short film by Kalevi Helvetti and Kalle Pajamaa delivers a striking experience. 

Working group: Kalevi Helvetti (script), Kalle Pajamaa (script, cinematographing, editing, directing), Pertti Kurikka, Kari Aalto, Ansel Pajamaa, Esa Kuloniemi and Antero Mentu (starring), Emola-Hatsina String Band (music), Helsinki Film & Gear (Film processing and scanning), Pertin Valinta (production)

The Plague of New York (2019, 6 min 30 sec)

A short film by Kalevi Helvetti and Kalle Pajamaa

The prophetic depiction from 2019 by Kalevi Helvetti of an illness that nearly destroyed New York in 2020.

Working group: Kalevi Helvetti (script), Pertti Kurikka (starring), Kalle Pajamaa (cinematographing, editing, directing, sounds), Andec (film processing and scanning)

Pertin Valinta (production), Music by: Kalevi Helvetti, Paanin Kuoro, Heimonen, Homicida Occultus. 

The Punk Syndrome (2012, 1 h 25 min)

The Punk Syndrome is a film about Finland’s most kick/ass punk rock band, Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät. The band members, Partti, Kari, Toni, and Sami, have intellectual disabilities and they play their music with a lot of attitude and pride. 

We follow these professional musicians on their journey from obscurity to popularity. We watch them fight, fall in love and experience strong emotions. We witness long days in the recording studio and on tour. They laugh, cry, drink and fight over who gets to sit in the front of the tour bus. Then it’s time to make up and go talk to people in the audience and tell them how great their band is. 

The Punk Syndrome is a film about the essence of punk. It’s a story of handicapped people rebelling against the mainstream. This time, you are allowed to stare and wonder why they act the way they do. And you will fall in love with them as you watch how the most kick-ass punk band conquers the world. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1774438

Working group: Jukka Kärkkäinen (script, directing, cinematography), J-P- Passi (script, directing), Sami Jahnukainen (script)

Riitta Poikselkä (editing), Antti Haikonen & Jukka Kärkkäinen (sound recording), Magnus Gertten (dramaturgy), Jorgen Bergsund (sound design), Tormind Rignes (sound mix)

Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät (music), Mouka Film (production)