Salla Tykkä

Movies

Europe – Europa
Director
The film is an inquiry into the power and position of the author. It shows that the means we use to understand, describe and record the world, change and construct it.
Untitled (White – Alps)
Director
A film about looking and the human need to see and understand the world, and about the limits of the sensory system, as the mind penetrates deeper into matter, time and space.
24.12.1997
Director
The c-cassette didn’t have any description of what it had inside, and for a while I could not recall what the unfamiliar noise was, or was it just worn out or if the player I used was broken.
Retrospective
Director
A short film about the difficulty of remembering and the importance of forgetting.
Giant
Director
Giant features leading junior team gymnasts of Romania. The film is shot in two boarding schools for artistic gymnastics in Onesti and Deva. A soundtrack of interviews with the gymnasts accompanies images of them training and of empty gymnasiums. Archive film footage starting from 1970s and clips from a feature fiction film shot in the same locations reveal not only a continuity in picturing this sport but also the structures of recording it.
Airs Above the Ground
Director
The Lipizzan horse is considered to be the oldest extant cultural breed in Europe. The breed dates back to the 16th century when it was created with the support of the Habsburg monarchy. Lipizzan horses were bred to perform the purest form of classical riding, the High School dressage. The finest representatives of Lipizzaner stallions begin training when they are four years old. The horses are born dark and gradually grow lighter until they are completely white.
Victoria
Director
In the short film Victoria, a nightly blossoming of the giant water lily is depicted. The plant tells the story of European colonialism in the 19th century and hides within its beauty the human need for power and domination.
Zoo
Director
A woman is taking pictures of cages in a zoo. The viewer and the object change places.
Lasso
Director
A girl discovers a young man playing with a lasso in the living room.