Matti Harju

Matti Harju

History

Finnish born Matti Harju has shown his work internationally at festivals including the Rotterdam International Film Festival; Locarno International Film Festival; Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen; AFI Fest Los Angeles; BFI London Film Festival; Edinburgh International Film Festival; Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival; Torino Film Festival; IndieLisboa International Film Festival. He studied film directing at the National Film and Television School (NFTS), UK. BA in Film from Lahti Polytechnic, Institute of Design, FI. Berlinale Talent Campus alumna. MFA from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts.

Profile

Matti Harju

Movies

Natura
Production Design
An unsettling mystery about desperation and class divisions in the age of digital capitalism.
Natura
Editor
An unsettling mystery about desperation and class divisions in the age of digital capitalism.
Natura
Director of Photography
An unsettling mystery about desperation and class divisions in the age of digital capitalism.
Natura
Producer
An unsettling mystery about desperation and class divisions in the age of digital capitalism.
Natura
Screenplay
An unsettling mystery about desperation and class divisions in the age of digital capitalism.
Natura
Director
An unsettling mystery about desperation and class divisions in the age of digital capitalism.
Three Days of Rain
Writer
Part time Twitch streamer, part time drug courier; both low level. Slithering between life and death, online and offline. The carefree summer of global progress seems to be over - are these the final days of both, the illusion of overarching narrative, and of Jerome the Saint.
Three Days of Rain
Director
Part time Twitch streamer, part time drug courier; both low level. Slithering between life and death, online and offline. The carefree summer of global progress seems to be over - are these the final days of both, the illusion of overarching narrative, and of Jerome the Saint.
Born to Feel
Director
Rumination about free will and the nature of feelings in the midst of tumblr aesthetics from the early 2010s. All video and audio material is either from unfinished projects or surplus material from completed ones. The text is partly autobiographical, partly fiction.
Minus World
Editor
Nintendo game, codeine and online bdsm all blend in this minimalistic speculation circling and edging towards a new view of otherness within.
Minus World
Writer
Nintendo game, codeine and online bdsm all blend in this minimalistic speculation circling and edging towards a new view of otherness within.
Minus World
Producer
Nintendo game, codeine and online bdsm all blend in this minimalistic speculation circling and edging towards a new view of otherness within.
Minus World
Director
Nintendo game, codeine and online bdsm all blend in this minimalistic speculation circling and edging towards a new view of otherness within.
El centro
Director
Young Anon discovers the digital root of everything during a school trip to New York and comes to a surprising conclusion.
Aliens
Director
A film about how language, be it film, art or written language, creates in itself a system where separation precedes contact.
New Age
Matti
In the cold northern light, the hours and the days of two friends, the mechanisms of daily life and the expectations of a decadent reality which reveals itself in the dawns and sunsets, in the nights spent drinking and the groggy mornings-after. The Finnish artist Matti Harju offers himself in this self-portrait of (his) life, perhaps involuntarily placid and sweet.
New Age
Director
In the cold northern light, the hours and the days of two friends, the mechanisms of daily life and the expectations of a decadent reality which reveals itself in the dawns and sunsets, in the nights spent drinking and the groggy mornings-after. The Finnish artist Matti Harju offers himself in this self-portrait of (his) life, perhaps involuntarily placid and sweet.
Afrikka
Director
Young Finnish filmmaker Harju's disturbing, raw film gets up close to a psychotic man. We don't all live in the same reality. Nerve-wracking and frayed experimental fiction that shows a psychotic man and his direct surroundings in a totally uncompromising way. 'Our interaction with others is based on the idea that we all share the same reality. That turns out not always to be the case.'
One in Four
Director
Haunted by his involvement in a suicide, train driver Sion struggles to comprehend the consequences somebody else's decision could have on his own life.
Man Seeking Man
Screenplay
Fifty-year-old Seppo puts a contact ad in the newspaper. After many years, his son decides to look him up, just on the day that Seppo has a date. Sober and painful yet moving drama about loneliness and family bonds. - IFFR Duration: 12m Colour, Stereo Original format: Super 16mm film
Man Seeking Man
Director
Fifty-year-old Seppo puts a contact ad in the newspaper. After many years, his son decides to look him up, just on the day that Seppo has a date. Sober and painful yet moving drama about loneliness and family bonds. - IFFR Duration: 12m Colour, Stereo Original format: Super 16mm film