Sami Sänpäkkilä’s audiovisual world combines smooth softness with jagged roughness. Works combine all types of narration and deal for example with the mysteries of life and death from many different perspectives. After screening there will be Q&A with the director.
Language: Eng, FinDuration: 60 min
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Thu 10.3.
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20:15
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Cine Atlas 4
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Sat 12.3.
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22:00
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Cine Atlas 3
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Cine Atlas 3, Cine Atlas 4
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KUBISTISIA VITTU SAATANA
Sami Sänpäkkilä | Finland 2003 | Experimental | 5 min
A girl smashes a car with a sledge hammer.

DISCO ENSEMBLE: PROTECTOR
Sami Sänpäkkilä | Finland 2010 | | 4 min
Disco Ensemble asked once again a bunch of directors to submit scripts and ideas for the second music video to be made off their new album. 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.

ASTRID SWAN & DRUNK LOVERS: 2000–2010 (I’M NOT EVEN 30)
Sami Sänpäkkilä | Finland 2009 | | 5 min
Music video for Astrid Swan from the album Better Than Wages.

SHOGUN KUNITOKI: RIDDARHOLMEN
Sami Sänpäkkilä | Finland 2009 | | 6 min
Music video for the song Riddarholmen from the Shogun Kunitoki: Vinonaamakasio, released in March 2009.

DEATH HAWKS: BLACK ACID
Sami Sänpäkkilä | Finland 2013 | | 9 min
Death Hawks: Black Acid music video is my first work shooting on film since 2006. The band wanted something “out of this world” and psychedelic. So this is my interpretation of that request!

RÄJÄYTTÄJÄT: AAMUPALALLE POMMIIN
Sami Sänpäkkilä | Finland 2014 | | 4 min
Räjäyttäjät music video. Shot in one take in winter 2014 with the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera in raw mode.

AMURI: MASA
Sami Sänpäkkilä | Finland 2020 | | 6 min
Amuri: Masa music video is directed by Kalevi Suopursu and Sami Sänpäkkilä. It was filmed in the legendary Salhojankadun Pub.

MARIA JA MARSIALAISET: TÄLLÄ TIELLÄ HAAMUT LIFTAA
Sami Sänpäkkilä | Finland 2017 | | 3 min
Music video for Maria ja marsialaiset.

PEKKO KÄPPI & K.H.H.L.: LAIHAN KOIRAN HAUKKU EI KUULU TAIVAASEEN
Sami Sänpäkkilä | Finland 2016 | | 5 min
A music video for Pekko Käppi & K.H.H.L. The song is from the album Sanguis Meus, Mama!

IGNATZ: WHEN THE FALL IS ALL THAT IS LEFT
Sami Sänpäkkilä | Finland 2011 | | 5 min
Music video for Ignatz. The song is from his 2011 album I Hate This City.

ELEANOORA ROSENHOLM: MOSKOVA METRO
Sami Sänpäkkilä | Finland 2020 | | 5 min
Eleanoora Rosenholm’s Moskova metro music video was 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.

PSYCHEDELIC ALPHABET FOR THE NEWBORN
Sami Sänpäkkilä | Finland 2013 | Experimental | 6 min
Psychedelic Alphabet for the Newborn is a video I made as a present for my dear friend’s newborn baby. Life is beauty, violence, comfort, danger and lipstick. Even for the newborn.