Sami van Ingen

Biography

Sami van Ingen is one of the pioneers of experimental filmmaking in Finland. He has made over 30 short films, mostly dealing subtly with the act of seeing and using various strategies to manipulate found or forgotten footage. His films have been screened at festivals like Edinburgh Film Festival, Image Forum Tokyo, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento in Buenos Aires and in institutions like National Gallery of Art in Washington, Centre Pompidou in Paris and Anthology Film Archives in New York.

Directed

1. HATE (2012) — Director
2. Flame (2018) — Director
3. Deep Six (2007) — Director
4. Sweep (1995) — Director
5. The Sequent of Hanna Ave. (2006) — Director
6. Bruce Baillie Study Reel (2002) — Director
7. Fokus (2004) — Director
8. Monica in the South Seas (2023) — Director
9. Summer-Winter-Summer (1991) — Director
10. Butter (1986) — Director
11. Texas Scramble (1996) — Director
12. Stagecoach (2010) — Director
13. Exactly (2008) — Director
14. Manifest Destiny (2016) — Director
15. Moving Emu (1991) — Director
16. Finnmunka (1993) — Director
17. Hammu (1991) — Director
18. Pins (2019) — Director
19. Cast of Shadows (2025) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Butter (1986) — Himself
2. Cast of Shadows (2025) — narrator