Death is IN
Poem film “Death is IN!” is the result of cooperation between two movie enthusiasts and a poet. The poem is from Tuija Välipakka’s poetry collection Take Away (Paasilinna Publishing Ltd., 2014). Mikaela...
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Tuija Välipakka was born in 3 August 1967 in Hämeenlinna, Finland. She is a writer and a poet. Tuija has written six books, three of them are poetry collections. Her latest poetry collection Take Away (Paasilinna Publishing Ltd. 2014) was rewarded as the best national poetry collection in 2014. Välipakka is also the chairwoman of the oldest provincial writer's association in Finland.
Mikaela Välipakka was born on 15 December 1993 in Tampere, Finland. At the age of 10 she started making short art films because she was really shy and wanted to explain the mad world around us by filming everyday things such as people walking in the street, a typical snowy day in Finland, how rain drops run down the car windscreen, etc. When Mikaela went to high school to study visual arts in 2010, she started to collaborate with her poet mother Tuija Välipakka by making her poem videos. In 2013 Mikaela's second poem film TAKE AWAY was screened at the Tampere Film Festival. She was 19 at the time. Her third poem film Death is IN! was also a great success, and has been screened at the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival (Germany, 2014). It is also part of a private art collection in Hämeenlinna, Finland. Nowadays Mikaela has expanded her interests and is making also music videos for well-known Finnish artists.
Tuija Välipakka was born in 3 August 1967 in Hämeenlinna, Finland. She is a writer and a poet. Tuija has written six books, three of them are poetry collections. Her latest poetry collection Take Away (Paasilinna Publishing Ltd. 2014) was rewarded as the best national poetry collection in 2014. Välipakka is also the chairwoman of the oldest provincial writer's association in Finland. Mikaela Välipakka was born on 15 December 1993 in Tampere, Finland. At the age of 10 she started making short art films because she was really shy and wanted to explain the mad world around us by filming everyday things such as people walking in the street, a typical snowy day in Finland, how rain drops run down the car windscreen, etc. When Mikaela went to high school to study visual arts in 2010, she started to collaborate with her poet mother Tuija Välipakka by making her poem videos. In 2013 Mikaela's second poem film TAKE AWAY was screened at the Tampere Film Festival. She was 19 at the time. Her third poem film Death is IN! was also a great success, and has been screened at the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival (Germany, 2014). It is also part of a private art collection in Hämeenlinna, Finland. Nowadays Mikaela has expanded her interests and is making also music videos for well-known Finnish artists.