Pia Tikka Filmography

Pia Tikka, Filmmaker, PhD in filmPhone +358 50 4461184

http://www.oblomovies.com

Artistic Portfolio

Feature films – film director (2) Feature films – in development (2) Feature films – creative crew member (12) Interactive film projects (3) Documentaries (3) Shortfilms (6)

Most important film work (5)

1. Maiden of Dusk Dir. Pia Tikka, feature in development (draft WGAW); prod. Oblomovies Oy [FIN], currently in development [See excerpt]

2. Sand Bride, Dir. Pia Tikka, feature film, prod. Oblomovies Oy with Marianna Films Oy [FIN] 1998 [See excerpt]

3. Daughters of Yemanjá, Dir., DoP, and co-cinematographer Pia Tikka, prod. Oblomovies Oy with Marianna Films Oy [Brazil-Finland] 1996 [See excerpt]

4. Tigrero, Dir. Mika Kaurismäki, DoP Jacques Cheuiche; 2nd Unit Camera operator, Camera assistant Pia Tikka; Marianna Films and Mira Set Filmes [BR] 1993

5. Last Border, Dir. Mika Kaurismäki, DoP Timo Salminen; Co-screenwriter, Script supervisor, Still photographer Pia Tikka; Last Border [FIN] 1992

Most important work in interactive cinema (3)

1. Maiden of Dusk Dir. Pia Tikka, Enactive Cinema version in development (draft WGAW); involves innovations in enactive character-design; prod. Oblomovies Oy [FIN], in development.

2. The Third Woman Dir. Pia Tikka & Martin Rieser, DoP Pia Tikka, Experimental mobile phone film and public game; Oblomovies Oy in association with Montfort University [FIN-UK] 2009.

3. Obsession (enactive cinema installation), Dir. Pia Tikka, Installation premiered in Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma; Prod. Oblomovies Oy in association with University of Art and Design; [FIN] 2005. [See excerpt]

A. Filmography

Feature films – film director (4)

THE MAIDEN OF DUSK Dir. Pia Tikka, feature in development (draft WGAW). Idea, Producer, Director Pia Tikka, Screenplay Pia Tikka & Eeva Tikka, Development funding Finnish Film Foundation ©OBLOMOVIES 2011

THE REAL PRINCESS Dir. Pia Tikka, Feature film, action-thriller in development (draft WGAW). Producer, Director Pia Tikka, Screenplay Eeva Tikka, Development funding Finnish Film Foundation/Kaisu Isto ©OBLOMOVIES 2010

SAND BRIDE (Fiction, film S16mm, Finland 75’) Dir. Pia Tikka, Producer Mika Kaurismäki, Director, Co-screenwriter, Editor Pia Tikka, Co-screenwriter Eeva Tikka, Cinematographer Olli Varja ©OBLOMOVIES in association with MARIANNA FILMS [FIN] 1997

DAUGHTERS OF YEMANJÁ (Fiction, film S16mm, Brazil-Finland 78’) Dir. Pia Tikka, Producer Mika Kaurismäki, Director, co-screenwriter, co-cinematography Pia Tikka, Co-screenwriter Eeva Tikka, Co-cinematographer Jacques Cheuiche ©OBLOMOVIES 1995 in association with MIRASET FILMS

Feature films – creative team member (12)

MORO NO BRASIL (Finland-France-Brazil) Dir. Mika Kaurismäki, DoP Jacques Cheuiche, S16mm, Camera operator in Finland, Video camera operator in Brazil Pia Tikka ©MAGNATEL [UK], ARTE [FR], YLE [FIN] & MARIANNA FILMS @ 2002

HIGHWAY SOCIETY (Germany-Finland) Dir. Mika Kaurismäki, DoP Timo Salminen, film 35mm, Still photographer, 2nd Camera operator Pia Tikka @ MARIANNA FILMS and MARIETTE RISSENBEEK PRODUCTIONS [GER] 1999

LA WITHOUT A MAP (British-Finnish-French) Dir. Mika Kaurismäki, DoP Michel Amathieu, film 35mm, 3rd Camera assistant, Still photographer Pia Tikka © MARIANNA FILMS, DAN FILMS [UK] with EURO-AMERICAN FILMS [FR] 1998

SAMBOLICO (Episode of a feature film) (Brazil) Dir. Mika Kaurismäki, DoP Jacques Cheuiche, s16mm, Director’s assistant, 2nd Camera operator, Camera assistant, Still photographer Pia Tikka © MARIANNA FILMS and REGINA ZIEGLER PRODUCTIONS [GER] 1995

DANISH GIRLS (Episode of a feature film) (Brazil) Dir. Mika Kaurismäki, DoP Jacques Cheuice, S16mm, 2nd Camera operator, Director’s assistant, Still photographer Pia Tikka © MARIANNA and HOLLAND HOUSE [DK] 1995

CONDITION RED (United States) Dir. Mika Kaurismäki, DoP Ken Kelsch, film 35mm, Script supervisor, Director’s assistant, Making-off video director & camera Pia Tikka © MARIANNA FILMS and OAK ISLAND FILMS [US] 1994

TIGRERO (Brazil-Finland) Dir. Mika Kaurismäki, DoP Jacques Cheuiche, S16mm, 2nd Unit Camera operator, Camera assistant, graphic designer Pia Tikka © MARIANNA FILMS and MIRA SET FILMES [BR] 1993

LAST BORDER (Finland-Norway) Dir. Mika Kaurismäki, DoP Timo Salminen, film 35mm, Co-screenwriter, Script supervisor, Still photographer Pia Tikka © LAST BORDER [FIN] 1992

NIGHT ON EARTH (Episode in Finland) Dir. Jim Jarmusch, DoP Fred Elmes, film 35mm, 2nd Camera assistant Pia Tikka © LOCUS SOLUS [US] 1991

ZOMBIE AND THE GHOSTTRAIN (Finland-Turkey) Dir. Mika Kaurismäki, DoP Olli Varja, film 35mm, Camera assistant, Still photographer Pia Tikka, © MARIANNA FILMS 1991

AMAZON (Brazil-Finland) Dir. Mika Kaurismäki, DoP Timo Salminen, film 35mm, 2nd Camera assistant in Finland Pia Tikka © VILLEALFA [FIN] 1990

Interactive film projects (3)

THE MAIDEN OF DUSK Dir. Pia Tikka, Enactive Cinema version in development (draft WGAW) (working title), Idea, Producer, Director Pia Tikka, Screenplay Pia Tikka & Eeva Tikka, Development funding Finnish Film Foundation ©OBLOMOVIES 2011

THE THIRD WOMAN Dir. Pia Tikka & Martin Rieser, DoP Pia Tikka, Experimental mobile phone film and public game, eMobiLArt project 2008-2009, Co-producer, co-director, co-scriptwriter, cinematographer Pia Tikka, System architect Rasmus Vuori ©OBLOMOVIES in association with IOCT/De Montfort University [UK] 2009

ENACTIVE CINEMA OBSESSION (Non-stop) Dir. Pia Tikka, Installation premiered in Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki, Producer, Director, Screenwirter, Cinematographer Pia Tikka, System architect Rasmus Vuori ©OBLOMOVIES in association with University of Art and Design, Helsinki 2005

Documentaries (3)

MAKING-OFF CONDITION RED (25’) Dir. Pia Tikka, Producer Mika Kaurismäki, Director-Cinematographer, Editor Pia Tikka © MARIANNA FILMS 1995

LILIUS – fury and exhaustion (Documentary 45’) Dir. Nina Stenros & Pia Tikka, Producers Nina Stenros & Pia Tikka, Co-director, Cinematographer, Editor Pia Tikka © OBLOMOVIES 1992

TRAIKKIBAIKKI (Documentary 22’) Dir. Nina Stenros, Producers Nina Stenros & Pia Tikka, Cinematographer, Editor Pia Tikka © OBLOMOVIES 1991

Shortfilms (6)

KUNINGATAR [The Queen] (short film 25 min), Dir. Pia Tikka, Production in collaboration with producer Harri Haanpää, Screenplay Eeva Tikka. Production Aalto University in association with Dreammill Oy, Helsinki, 2012.

OBSESSION (Short film, S16mm, 30’) Dir. Pia Tikka, Producer, Director, Sccreenplay, Co-cinematographer Pia Tikka, Co-cinematographer Harri Räty ©OBLOMOVIES in association with University of Art and Design, Helsinki 2004

DANCERS ON BOULEVARD (Fiction 25’) Dir. Pia Tikka, Producer, Director-Cinematographer, Editor Pia Tikka, Screenplay Eeva Tikka © OBLOMOVIES 1993

KIRJAILIJA KIRJOITTAA (Fiction 60’) Dir. Kari Väänänen, Cinematographer Pia Tikka © University of Art and Design, Helsinki in association with YLE 1993

LIISANKADUN HELMERI (Fiction, film S16mm, 7’) Dir. Nina Stenros, Producers Nina Stenros & Pia Tikka, Screenplay Nina Stenros, Cinematographer, Editor Pia Tikka © OBLOMOVIES 1990

SURUSAATTO (Fiction, film S16mm 8’) Dir. Pia Tikka, Director-Cinematographer, Screenplay, Editor Pia Tikka © OBLOMOVIES 1990 in association with University of Art and Design, Helsinki

Music videos (2)

PERKO & HURMIO ORCHESTRA (Music video) Dir. Pia Tikka, DoP Ulf Sundval, Producer Mika Kaurismäki, Director, Scriptwriter, Editor Pia Tikka © MARIANNA FILMS in association with ESEK 2001

COLD FEELING (Music video, film S16mm, 5’) Dir. Pia Tikka, Producer Mika Kaurismäki, Director-Cinematographer, Editor Pia Tikka © MARIANNA FILMS in ass with ESEK 1991

B. Other artistic work and concept development

1. Enactive Cinema concept

Enactive cinema installation Obsession stands as a proof of concept described in Tikka, P. 2008. Enactive Cinema: Simulatorium Eisensteinense. PhD dissertation. Helsinki: University of Art and Design Publication Series.

Enactive films

Enactive exhibitions

· Enactive Dialectics, by Dumitriu A, Holder J & Tikka P. e-MobiLArt Project Exhibition, an interactive media art project funded with support from the CULTURE 2007 Programme of the European Union, in the Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice, Poland, Oct – Nov 2009.

· Obsession – Enactive Cinema Installation in the South Carelia Art Museum, Lappeenranta, Finland (April 15 – May 31, 2009); Obsession – Enactive Cinema Installation. In the Ars Nova Museum, Digitally Yours -show, Turku, Finland, curator Andy Best (April 1 – May 13, 2007)

· Obsession – Enactive Cinema Installation. In ISEA2006, the Thirteenth International Symposium on Electronic Arts held in San Jose, California, in conjunction with the inaugural biennial ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge (Aug 7 – 13, 2006)

· Obsession – Enactive Cinema Installation. Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA Helsinki (June 9 – Aug 22, 2005); Obsession – Enactive Cinema Installation. International Film Festival Espoo Ciné Espoo Cultural Centre, Finland, (Aug 23 – 28, 2005)

Enactive Avatar for feature films

Currently I’m developing an enactive avatar, a computer-generated film character that is photographically identical to the live actress (Maria Järvenhelmi).

The work is conducted together with the Danish VFX supervisor Peter Hjort (e.g. Melancholia, Lars von Trier). The en active avatar is responsive for the viewer’s real time psychophysiological reactions as well as to the filmic surroundings generated on the fly. The avatar will be applied to the enactive version of feature film Maiden of Dusk (in development).

Enactive technology development

The practical editing tool for creating interactive fiction film montage on the fly based on the viewer’s psycho-physiological responses was developed in the enactive cinema installation Obsession – the media editor by Tikka, Vuori, and Kaipainen 2003.

2. Film work for neuroscientific research purposes

The film Queen was designed and produced for neuroscientific purposes. In collaboration with the neuroscientists at Aalto University, particular type of social behavior was embedded into the story, in order to observe different neural responses in the target groups of autists, psychopaths, and control subjects. The film will be shown in public only after the scientific experiment has been concluded (estimation 2017). The behavioral research is conducted in association with Finnish broadcasting company, webpage (Finnish language) yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2013/12/04/osallistu-aivotutkimukseen-katso-kuningatar-elokuva

THE QUEEN (short film 25 min), Dir. Pia Tikka, Director, Produced together with Harri Haanpää, Screenplay Eeva Tikka. Production Aalto University in association with Dreammill Oy, Helsinki, 2012

3. Other interactive concepts

The Third Woman – mobile film-game

· The Third Woman –mobile film-game event, dir. Nina Yankowitzin collaboration with Pia Tikka, Martin Rieser, & eMobiLArt team, Galapagos Art Space event, Brooklyn, NY (May 9, 2011).

· The Third Woman –mobile film-game, dir. Pia Tikka & Martin Rieser, eMobiLArt team, Digital Arts Weeks China, Xian Academy of Fine Arts (http://www.thirdwoman.com/) (June 27 – July 10, 2010)

· The Third Woman –mobile film-game, dir. Pia Tikka & Martin Rieser, eMobiLArt team, Bath, Carpenter House, Bath UK, (http://www.thirdwoman.com/), Special showing to commemorate the end of Bath University’s Cityware Research project (July 4, 2009)

· The Third Woman –mobile film-game, e-MobiLArt Project Exhibition, an interactive media art project funded with support from the CULTURE 2007 Programme of the European Union, in the 2nd Biennale of the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece (May 20 – June 10, 2009) http://www.thirdwoman.com

Olgatar – a Physical Avatar

· The Physical Avatar OLGATAR – Remote Presence for disabled Elder by workgroup Maria Croné, Jon Grönlund, Jennifer Sjöberg, Pia Tikka, Pär-Ola Zander, at Designing expression in interactive spaces NIRES 6, Stockholm (Aug 26 – 31, 2002)

C. Other creative activities

· Interviewing cinematographers at Camerimage 2002, the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Lodz, Poland (Nov 30 – Dec 7, 2002).

· Invited film director in a range of International Film Festivals with the long feature films ”DAUGHTERS OF YEMÁNJA” (1995) and ”SAND BRIDE” (1998)

· Midnight Sun Film Festival, Sodankylä hosting the international guests with the founder of the festival Mika Kaurismäki (1990 – 2002) http://www.msfilmfestival.fi/

Professional film training

· The feature film script The Maid of Dusk w/ Eeva Tikka, developed through Sources2, an initiative of the MEDIA II program of the European Union, 1999.

· The feature film script The Maiden of Dusk selected to EAVE European producer workshop with Danish film producer Stine Meldgaard, 2013.

Advertising work

· Art Director with a wide range of advertising designs (1980 – 1989)

Other design projects

· Design of new jugend-style front doors and supervising the artwork for Heimo As. Oy Laivanvarustajankatu 3, 000140 Helsinki. The building is constructed 1913

Fine arts painting

· Orlando paintings in ”Vieraanvaraisuuksia”–exhibition, Image & Word -group supported by the Arts Council of Pirkanmaa & the Arts Council of Finland, Voipaala Art Centre, Finland (Sep 16 – Nov16, 2003)

· Private Art Exhibition in Oblomovies Studio Helsinki, Finland (1988)

· Group Art Exhibition in the Museum of Hyvinkää, Finland (1987)

· Group Art Exhibition in the Art Society of Lappeenranta, Finland (1980)

Owner of film production companies

· Partner /owner (50%) in the production company Oblomovies Oy (since 1990) with Nina Stenros.

· Partner/owner in the production company Marianna Films Oy (1990–2004)

film and interactive media productions