CANDIDATE 2008

Seppo Renvall

Seppo Renvall's wide-ranging, multi-faceted production stands at the apex of the Finnish experimental moving image. In Renvall's films - for instance, the experimental, feature-length Film1999 made in 2000 - personal material is often combined with a physical re-working of the properties of the film. Renvall's films, videos, installations and happenings have been shown in the world's foremost arenas of experimental film and visual art, from New York's Anthology Film Archive to the Venice and São Paulo Biennales.

Kari Yli-Annala, Artist, researcher and lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki