Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty, and seemingly the sole member of the family...

Chance incidents of life and in the darkroom collide, as found footage film strips take new shape under a flashlight. Poetic gestures in the source...

Texas Scramble is based on the notion of memory as the basis for our perception, it progresses through situations and moments consisting of...

Sweep is a road movie to memory, a realization of the need to review footsteps and past events which build myths. The camera gazes at the spaces...

Film by Sami van Ingen

Film by Sami van Ingen

A fractured melodrama, based on damaged frames from the last minutes of the only remaining nitrate reel of the lost feature film Silja – Fallen...

Deep Six has three starting points: a little narrative re-edited from a Hollywood B-film (The Rage, 1998), an attempt to use the color photocopy as...

Wheels where paramount in the conquering of the west, they made possible the transporting of building materials to build towns and cities. Wheels –...

Experimental. Silent. No dialogue. Sami van Ingen is a veteran in alternative Finnish film, who has worked as an artist, lecturer and curator...

Hate opens up the questions of the way the "other" is portrayed in the depiction of the Finnish national epic Kalevala.

Exactly is some re-arranged found footage with its original sound track re-united. By omitting just the name of the protagonist I have turned this...

A documentation of an installation in Oulu 1991: An 8000Kg ice cube. A process where a passerby is faced with something familiar in a way that some...

A film by Sami van Ingen of Bruce Baillie

The Sequent of Hanna Ave. is the result of my re-workings of some experimental film practices and my enquiries in to the phenomena of the...

"Fokus is a stirring viewing experience. It is based on an extremely minimal visual form: contrasts, textures and glowing colors. Its visual...

An amateur set of images, an attempt to make a political documentary about the middle class revolution turns into an essay on the relationship...

Hammu is the name of the hamster I had as a child. It seemed it was my only friend and being to identify with. One day it disappeared from the cage...