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<\/a> In Marjo Levlin’s video work Majakka<\/em> (3-channel Full HD video, 10″ loop), two artists, performance artist Inari Virmakoski<\/a> and composer-performer Mercedes Krapovickas<\/a>, get to know each other through a dialogue of expressive gestures. Krapovickas composed the music for the video filmed earlier in Majakka, where the exhibition takes place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We are what we remember<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n At Tampere Film Festival National Competition under 30 minutes series Underdog was awarded the Main Price and the Statuette “Kiss”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marjo Levlin | Finland | 2024 | Documentary, Experimental | 30 min<\/p>\n\n\n\n With humility and profound respect for the audience and the cinematic art form, the director skillfully crafts an experience that neither manipulates nor confines, but rather liberates us through an innovative and mesmerizing approach. Effortlessly bridging intimate childhood memories and passing through the darkest corridors of human thought, the film invites us into a deeply resonant reflection on our shared humanity. A masterwork of sensitivity and courage, this film embodies cinema at its most poetic and profound. TFF awarded films 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n At DocPoint Helsinki Film Festival in February Underdog<\/em> was awarded the Jury’s Special Mention at National Shorts Competition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe film propelled the viewer boldly through many weighty themes, ultimately tying everything together in a powerful way, and connecting the viewer with various aspects of hierarchy in this world. An intense and moving, visually beautiful film,\u201d the jury commented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n DocPoint awards 2025<\/a> February 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Underdog was selected to DocPoint Helsinki 2025 National Shorts Competition and will be screened twice in the Shorts Competition 3: My Nature<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n September 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Underdog was selected to AV-arkki’s Distribution Catalogue 2024-2025<\/a> by guest curator Pamela Cohn and AV-arkki’s personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n May-June 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n My latest film installation Underdog was screened as a 2-channel installation at Forum Box Parvi, Helsinki 23.5.-16.6.2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n March 2021<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n After being nominated to the National Competion for films under 30 minutes at Tampere film<\/a> festival 2021, Ellipsis<\/em> was awarded the Risto Jarva-Prize<\/a>, by the Finnish Film foundation<\/a> among the movies in both series under and over 30 minutes . <\/p>\n\n\n\n I am honoured and thankful!<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The Risto Jarva Prize seeks to find fresh new ideas and thoughts in Finnish film, celebrating originality and unique vision. The jury was delighted to discover a film in the domestic competition that exemplifies these criteria.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n At the start of the film, a flimsy screen hangs like a veil in the forest, and we are reminded that a screen not only acts as a surface to be projected upon, but also hides what lies beyond. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Through a series of overlapping stories, both meditative and disturbing, the film\u2019s rich language and evocative imagery draws us in. We become hooked on the ebb and flow of images and stories as we are taken on a journey from the forests of East Helsinki to the meat-packing stockyards of Chicago. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Slowly, between what is said and not said, between what is seen and not seen, we start to connect the dots, and get a glimpse of what lies behind the veil.<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n Quote by the Risto Jarva-Prize jury 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n January 2021<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The short film Ellipsis was chosen to DocPoint Festival 2021<\/a><\/strong> and will be screened as a part of the series New Experimental Shorts from Finland <\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The festival\u2019s online screenings take place on an online platform, which will open on Friday, Jan 22, when ticket sales also start. Most films in the programme will be available online throughout the festival 29.1.\u20137.2. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n MANIFESTA 13<\/strong><\/p>\n In November the project D\u00e9placer l’horizon\/Moving the Horizon<\/strong> will take part in the Manifesta 13 program Les Parall\u00e8les du Sud at in Centre Photographique Marseille, France.<\/p>\n I am happy to screen the new piece Ellipsis<\/em>\u00a0at the exhibition.<\/p>\n https:\/\/vimeo.com\/425605457<\/a><\/p>\n The cooperation between nine artists from Finland, France and Morocco started in 2019 and continues with exhibitions, screenings and publications.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/movingthehorizon\/photos\/a.495693974504618\/846333459440666\/<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/manifesta13.org\/les-paralleles-du-sud\/<\/a><\/p>\n My upcoming solo exhibition at Galleria Huuto IV in Helsinki was postponed to May 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n Ellipsis\u00a0<\/em>is the new piece that was made for the exhibition.<\/p>\n I am delighted to be part of this exhibition Land Beyond the Sea <\/em><\/span>that opens\u00a0the 24th of January 2020 in the Nordic House in Reykjavik, Iceland. The exhibition is curated By Juha-Heikki Tihinen from the Pro Artibus foundation, and I will show the film Oblivion, -O Blif Igen! \u00a0<\/em>from 2015 that was part of the exhibition Heading West, Coming Back<\/em> that first was shown in Muu galleria in Helsinki, and later in Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art during the summer 2017.<\/p>\n https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/event\/landid-handan-hafsins-finnskt-listafolk-a-islandi\/<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.turuntaidemuseo.fi\/?cat=286&lang=fi&mstr=42<\/a>\u00a0Dividual individual II 17.11.2017-7.1.2018.<\/p>\n http:\/\/kuntsi.vaasa.fi\/nayttelyt_esilla.html<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0Dreams, Ghosts \/ Marjo Levlin solo exhibition<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.villaroosa.fi<\/a>\u00a0PALJON ONNEA \/Summer exhibition of Contemporary Art<\/p>\n Huvin Vuoksi<\/a><\/p>\n Norpas festival 2015<\/a><\/p>\n Valtio+<\/a><\/p>\n Of Place and Presence<\/a>\u00a0Nine Contemporary Artists from Finland<\/p>\nUnderdog Awarded at DocPoint Helsinki 2025 and Tampere Film Festival 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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