HAUTE COUTURE GEAR – The creation of exclusive custom fitted clothing for films by ILPPO POHJOLA

"Haute couture (French for "high sewing" or "high dressmaking" or "high fashion") is the creation of exclusive custom-fitted clothing. Haute couture is high end fashion that is constructed by hand from start to finish, made from high quality, expensive, often unusual fabric and sewn with extreme attention to detail and finished by the most experienced and capable sewers, often using time-consuming, hand-executed techniques. Couture translates literally from French as "dressmaking" but may also refer to fashion, sewing, or needlework. Haute translates literally to "high". A haute couture garment is often made for a client, tailored specifically for the wearer's measurements and body stance. Considering the amount of time, money, and skill allotted to each completed piece, haute couture garments are also described as having no price tag: budget is not relevant."

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MOTOR MACHINE MUSIC
Music for films by ILPPO POHJOLA

Routemaster – The Original San Francisco Cinemascope Mix
by JIM MCKEE & WIESLAW POGORZELSKI

Routemaster – London Dub Mix
by LEE DIGI-DUB

Routemaster – Tokyo Noise Mix
by MERZBOW

Machine of The Gods
Music for an unmade movie 
by JIM MCKEE & WIESLAW POGORZELSKI

Asphalto – Title Aria
by JIM MCKEE & WIESLAW POGORZELSKI

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TONE OF FINLAND – The complete soundtrack of Tom of Finland – Daddy and the Muscle Academy and the original score by Elliot Sharp re-composed + interpreted + mixed + visited + worked by Finnish electronic musicians + sound designers

2 audio CDs with 138 minutes of music  
PLUS
64-page book with an introductory essay, complete lyrics in Finnish and English and Tom of Finland's press photo remix drawings from the 1950's+ 1960's+ 1970's+ 1980's – published for the first time ever... and bound in hard cover in real leather!

Available in 10 different dust cover designs – for hardcore fans only: Collect the complete set!

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ROUTEMASTER REMIX PROJECT LIVE – De Luxe DVD +Book is a freeze-frame-street-poetry montage of speed and a multiple-camera-angle recording of a multimedia concert at the Avanto festival, where Wieslaw Pogorzelki, Jim McKee and Merzbow performed their versions of the Routemaster soundtrack live. The final DVD image mix is created by the viewer using the remote control.

The De Luxe DVD +Book also includes the official Los Angeles Mix: Scorcher, an aria written by Harry Gamboa Jr specially for the Routemaster film.

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MULTIPLE CAMERA ANGLE RECORDING OF ROUTEMASTER REMIX PROJECT LIVE – THE FINAL DVD IMAGE MIX IS CREATED BY THE VIEWER USING THE REMOTE CONTROL

ASPHALTO / ROUTEMASTER – De Luxe DVD +Book is an attempt to create a ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’ — a total work of art — which discusses issues related to automobile culture, speed, male and female identity through graphic design, photography, street poetry and experimental filmmaking.

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ASPHALTO – AN ARIA FOR 13 DEMOLITION DERBY CARS, GIRLS & GAS STATIONS + ROUTEMASTER – THEATRE OF THE MOTOR – A RHYTMIC MOSAIC ABOUT SPEED

P(L)AIN TRUTH tells the story of a transsexual and her/his transformation from a biological woman into a biological man. P(l)ain Truth De Luxe DVD +Book uses extreme visual –infrared photography, experimental graphic design and filmmaking – means to describe her/his emotions during the different stages of the painful tranformation process.

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P(L)AIN TRUTH – A FILM
FROM ♀ TO ♂

The Tom of Finland Special Edition DVD contains a digitally remastered version of Daddy and the Muscle Academy – the only film ever made with Tom of Finland. The disc also includes in its entirety the 93-minute interview made with Tom of Finland for the film. In addition, there are various trailers and over 100 of Tom of Finland’s drawings, for which the viewer can select the viewing time or which can be viewed one by one.

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DADDY AND THE MUSCLE ACADEMY – THE ONLY FILM EVER MADE ON THE ART, LIFE AND TIMES OF TOM OF FINLAND

STORMY SILENCE
Elävä on myrskyinen hiljaisuus
1983 | 24-page photo book with 7” single and slide show with live music 

Abstract imagery & sequencing by ILPPO POHJOLA
Electric guitar interpretation by
JARI YLIAHO

STORMY SILENCE is a photographic book with 7” single and a slide show duet of camera and guitar exploring the influence of instrumental music on the interpretation of abstract color photographs.

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