SORSAPAISTI/DUCK ROAST (2023)
Mamu, a young immigrant, is trying to woo Date, a Finnish lady, by making dinner for her. Once the meal is served, she discovers that the main course is a bit too "exotic" for her taste.
Duration: 12min 32s
DIRECTOR: Jelica Jerinić
SCRIPT: Jelica Jerinić, Aleksandar Marković
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Christopher L. Thomas
SOUND: Jyri PirinenSorsapaisti stills
SET DESIGN: Tia Hassinen
COSTUME DESIGN: Tia Hassinen
EDITING: Jussi Sandhu
CAST: Kardo Shiwan, Leena Pöysti, Anastasia Trizna, Juha-Pekka Mikkola, Roxana Sadvokassova
PRODUCER: Mete Sasioglu
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Sons of Lumiere
ATTRACTION PARK (2023)
Oceanarium. Two night guards exchange urban legends about the abandoned amusement park next door. However, their tales take a haunting turn when one of the eerie legends starts coming to life.
Directed & Produced by: Helena Aleksandrova
Written & Edited by: Helena Aleksandrova
Cinematography and Color Grading by: Daniel Gorsky
Main Cast: Theophile Fried, Ari-Pekka Leinonen, Mariangela Pluchino, Helena Aleksandrova,
Annamaria Peltokangas, Nadezhda Atanasova
Art Director: Helena Aleksandrova
Costume Designer: Tia Hassinen
Hair & Makeup and Special Effects Makeup: Tia Hassinen
Sound Design & Final Mix: Toni Teivaala
Music: Saku Kämäräinen & Lauri Toikka
LEONARDA- FLESH AIN'T WEAK (2020)
Leonarda is a vegan soap maker and serial killer from contemporary Helsinki. She makes soap out of the bodies of her victims. She would do anything to protect her favourite child: Giuseppe. Based on the case of Leonarda Cianciulli, a serial killer from southern Italy during the 30s. A mix between documentary-fiction-dance movie-digital-16mm analogue-among other frolicsomeness.
National Premiere: Love & Anarchy International Helsinki Film Festival 2020
Rights for Finnish television YLE 2021
Duration: 17min
Director, Producer, Script and Post production: Mariangela Pluchino
Cast: Katja Kiuru, Bert Jacobs, Ronja Antikainen, Pihla Sudenyö, Aurora Joensuu
Cinematography: Aishe Vejdani
Art Direction: Tia Hassinen
Costume and Set Design: Tia Hassinen
Music and Sound: Ari-Pekka Leinoen
Muah: Erja Parviainen, Heli-Maria Malmelin
Link to the full movie: https://areena.yle.fi/1-50494990
phantasmagoria (2020)
Phantasmagoria is a feminist multi-channel video and sound installation combining high fashion to the world of camp horror film.
It explores the gendered experience of fear in culture, in which the female body is still widely considered as a common property. We are particularly interested in the feminine authorship of violence and how it presents itself in cultural narratives and western storytelling traditions. We are investigating the polarized dualism of gaze and objectification by using the imagery of Italian camp horror cinema. At the very core of our work are the themes surrounding femaleness and its representations in relation to the untold shame and taboos traditionally connected to women and the feminine. How does the body, boundaries, space and mind form a visual narrative? How does unconscious fear determine one’s actions?
Phantasmagoria was installed in Kallio Stage theatre space and exhibition was taking place in June 2020.
The work was also a part of OMVF musick video festival's art exhibition, Dark Matter in August 2020.
Directing, Dramaturgy, Producing and Art Directing: Tia Hassinen & Ilona Lehtonen
Acting: Helena Aleksandrova & Matti Hassinen
Cinematography, post-production: Ilona Lehtonen
Styling, costume design, muah: Tia Hassinen
Scenography: Ilona Lehtonen, Tia Hassinen
Music and sound design: Saku Kämäräinen, Ari-Pekka Leinonen
Vocals/Sound actor: Victoria Zolotukhina
Light Design: Anna-Mari Nousiainen
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THE GRACIOUS ONES (2020)
The Gracious Ones is a poetic short film inspired by Italo Western genre film and high fashion aesthetics. It follows three main protagonists on their symbolic journey towards feminine strength, self acceptance and togetherness.
The film explores the concepts of fear and being fierce. What it is to be brave in this world? What kind of heroines, empowering narratives and their representation could there be, if we try and let go from the old gender stereotypes and expectations of the film industry and our culture?
The Gracious Ones was part of the Fears or Fierce? feministic horror house exhibition in August 2020 that took place in Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki.
Duration: 13min 16s
Directing, Cinematography, Script, Post production and Graphic design: Ilona Lehtonen
Producing: Tia Hassinen, Helena Aleksandrova
Art Directing, Assistant Director, Costume and Muah: Tia Hassinen
Music: Saku Kämäräinen
Sound Design: Pääsky Piikkilä
Cast: Helena Aleksandrova, Roxana Sadvokassova, Pihla Sudenyö
Sini Hassinen, Jo Hislop, Venla Niinikoski, Mariangela, Pluchino, Anna Poleteli, Erica Sharko, Frida Stenbäck, Ida-Sofia Tuomisto,
