BEYOND THE BLACK HOLE
OF THE SUN
Hand painted celluloid animation with CGI.
Ambient abstractions for 3D SILVER SCREEN or 2D PUBLIC SPACE with musique concrète. – In production.
FILM SCREENINGS
ROUTEMASTER by ILPPO POHJOLA
Chicago Film Society, Music Box, Chicago, USA, Mar 17, 2025
Tampere Film Festival, Finland, Mar 5, 2025
Luminor-Hôtel de Ville, Paris, France, Nov 14, 2023
Collectif Jeune Cinema, Paris, France, Oct 11, 2023
DADDY AND THE MUSCLE ACADEMY by ILPPO POHJOLA
Pride Screening, Kalliola Settlement, Helsinki, Jun 25 - 28, 2024
Fire island Screenings, New York, Jun 7 - 9, 2024
Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland, Apr 29, Jun 2 & Sep 1, 2023
Fotografiska New York, NY, USA, Jun 16, 2021
Queer Lisboa - International Queer Film Festival, Portugal, Sep 20 - 28, 2019
Films4fags, Tom of Finland House, Los Angeles, USA, Aug 17, 2019
Berlin International Film Festival, Germany, Feb 7 - 17, 2019
P(L)AIN TRUTH by ILPPO POHJOLA
Queer Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, Apr 26 - 30, 2022
Vinokino, Turku, Oulu, Jyväskylä, Helsinki, Joensuu, Finland, Oct 22 - Dec 5, 2021
SPLIT SCREEN STIFF by ILPPO POHJOLA
Celluloid Dreams: Hand Made Films, Orion, Helsinki, Finland, Jan 31, 2020
BLURAY Publication
DADDY AND THE MUSCLE ACADEMY ON BLURAY IN USA & CANADA
Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber has released digitally restored and remastered version of Daddy and the Muscle Academy by Ilppo Pohjola on BluRay in the US and Canada.
"Tom of Finland is one of the major icons of the gay world. Taking inspiration from his World War II army days, 1950s American bodybuilding magazines and biker movies, Tom’s erotic drawings of uniformed and leather-clad beefcake have become a permanent fixture of 20th-century iconography.
Completed shortly before his death in 1991, Daddy and the Muscle Academy: The Life, Art and Times of Tom of Finland is the definitive, ground-breaking documentary of the man and the artist. Newly restored from the original camera negative, it combines interviews with Tom himself, commentary from his “leather men”, hundreds of original drawings, and fantasy scenes inspired by his work."
4k digital remastering project
4K/2K DIGITAL RESTORATION PROJECT
Crystal Eye is remastering all existing works, installations and films by Eija-Liisa Ahtila and Ilppo Pohjola. Detailed digital restoration is executed from the original camera and laboratory negatives and the original audio sources to reach maximum image and audio quality – without losing artist's original intention and the film look.
FILM
1 Plus 1 Plus 1
– Sympathy for the Decay
Routemaster
– Theatre of the Motor
Asphalto
– Aria for 13 Cars, Girls & Gas Stations
P(l)ain Truth
– A Film from ♀ to ♂
Tom of Finland
– Daddy and the Music Academy
FILM+ DVD
Asphalto/Routemaster DVD On-Line
P(l)ain Truth DVD On-Line
FILM+ design
Haute Couture Gear
Motor Machine Music
Tone of Finland Leatherbound
Routemaster Remix DVD +Book
Asphalto/Routemaster DVD +Book
P(l)ain Truth DVD +Book
Tom of Finland Special Edition DVD
Stormy Silence Gatefold
FILM+ TV
The Edge of Art
Dialogue – 10 Chapters on
the Visual Language of the 80's
Ballad of Sexual Dependency
Crossing Over
– Video as the Voice of Minorities
Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Installation, film and other art productions for Eija-Liisa Ahtila.
CRYSTAL ACE!
Misc. productions for other artists.
ilppo pohjola
Independent filmmaker / producer
Ilppo Pohjola works with the vocabulary of film, examining its structural and social elements in order to create a body of work that pushes the limits of the medium's physical possibilities. He works between the narrative tropes of Hollywood and the deconstructive methodologies of independent film. The cumulative bodies of knowledge in Pohjola's works are noticeable for their crispness of conception and excess of information. Given his interest in the formal elements of filmmaking, the content of Pohjola's works are surprisingly physical and sensual, even if assaultive.
Essays
Essays on Ilppo Pohjola's works.
MAP
Ilppo Pohjola’s shows, screenings and projects around the world.
INFO
Contact: Ilppo Pohjola
pohjola@crystaleye.fi
Tel. +358 9 694 2308
In Spotlight
SHARING... constantly under construction
TOM OF FINLAND
Jean Paul Gaultier | Greetings
Daddy and the Muscle Academy Premiere
Daddy and the Muscle Academy
DVDTalk – BluRay
Daddy and the Muscle Academy
DVDCompare – BluRay
Daddy and the Muscle Academy
Some old press from the archive
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
1 Plus 1 Plus 1 =
Difference between Past and Present
THEATRE OF THE MOTOR
Asphalto | Routemaster | Remix Live
Musique Machine
Routemaster | Theatre of the Motor
According to Dromology by Paul Virilio
Asphalto
Aria for 13 Cars, Girls & Gas Stations
The Voice of Shell | Asphalto
Some 60s & 70s TV commercials
SYMBOLIC DOCUMENTARY
Amorphous Questions of Emotion
P(l)ain Truth
Director's Truth
With director's notes from the archive
GESAMTKUNSTWERK
Ilppo of Finland
Hätkähdyttävä tuotanto saapui DVD:lle
Pohjola
Or Eulogies of Excess
In The Cut
Automotive Ultraspeed
Transsexual Surgery
More Essays
On Ilppo Pohjola’s Works
