Directing
Mox Mäkelä
Known for
Directing
Credits
23 titles
A Finnish artist and filmmaker. Mäkelä, who began his career in 1978, has had his work exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Finland and across Europe, and his films have been shown around the world.
Known for
NRIn the new cryptic triptych by ever-mysterious Mox Mäkelä, trains travel across the borders of time, armies gather in a place where history repeats itself, while Karelian women sing about how humans will destroy the world.
VITA
2026
Experimental short centered around slaughtered animals.
Slaughters Love
2021
NRSomewhere deep in the woods, in the house of her youth, she is thinking of ending things. All that matters is that she saved herself, and that nothing in her remains of them. The IFFR debut by Finnish conceptual artist Mox Mäkelä is an intuitive stream of thoughts, pictures and feelings expressing the protagonist's deep pain at the mistreatment of our planet. Fascinating, unnerving, funny and unlike anything you've seen before.
Petticoat Fire
2024
NRStrange – Art is a version of the audiovisual play Strange, the story of The Stranger, an androgynous (or what?) character who travels from the Finnish landscape to one Europe capital encountering a series of uncanny events. A bizarre journey in the art world, Strange – Art is a window open to the absurdity of the current state of the world.
Strange – Art
2020
Short about a coffee break.
Kahvia
2024
NR"Strange" will enter a house of the human world, with the trophy hall and tableware supported by the masses. The audio play movie "Strange" is a satirical but also tragic story about the visit, the motives of the reception and the destiny where the selected road takes you. The exceptional narrative is a combination of audio play and moving image from an era when structures based on crazy dreams begin to crumble.
Vieras
2018
Behind the camera
NRIn the new cryptic triptych by ever-mysterious Mox Mäkelä, trains travel across the borders of time, armies gather in a place where history repeats itself, while Karelian women sing about how humans will destroy the world.
VITA
2026
Experimental short centered around slaughtered animals.
Slaughters Love
2021
NRSomewhere deep in the woods, in the house of her youth, she is thinking of ending things. All that matters is that she saved herself, and that nothing in her remains of them. The IFFR debut by Finnish conceptual artist Mox Mäkelä is an intuitive stream of thoughts, pictures and feelings expressing the protagonist's deep pain at the mistreatment of our planet. Fascinating, unnerving, funny and unlike anything you've seen before.
Petticoat Fire
2024
NRStrange – Art is a version of the audiovisual play Strange, the story of The Stranger, an androgynous (or what?) character who travels from the Finnish landscape to one Europe capital encountering a series of uncanny events. A bizarre journey in the art world, Strange – Art is a window open to the absurdity of the current state of the world.
Strange – Art
2020
Short about a coffee break.
Kahvia
2024
NR"Strange" will enter a house of the human world, with the trophy hall and tableware supported by the masses. The audio play movie "Strange" is a satirical but also tragic story about the visit, the motives of the reception and the destiny where the selected road takes you. The exceptional narrative is a combination of audio play and moving image from an era when structures based on crazy dreams begin to crumble.
Vieras
2018
Experimental short about a work group.
Status
2013
Monologue of a succesfull person set to abstract imagery.
Levitaatio Betonialustalla
2015
Dad's old frying pan is made of iron, my mother has an online farm and I dream of a pet that sways back and forth and says nothing.
Economic Rices
2015
NRThe sacred satire of the "stand art" host and great stuff before they become dust.
Andjust
2021
What does she explain? Does she speak for herself?
Thinking about that
2023
A dead Swan leads to reemerging life
Song Will Not Die
2026
Experimental short based on video games aesthetics.
Bomb Sapiens
2019
The temperature in Mr. Kissmud's summer house never drops below +18°C in winter, even when it is -35°C outside, so the elegant toilet works perfectly. In hot summers, fluctuations are corrected by air conditioning to maintain the balance. Behind all quality is high quality. His motto is: "There is a suitable vehicle for every project in the world."
Kissmud
2016
NRIn René Clair’s classic 1924 short Entr’acte, Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray played a surreal game of chess until they were swept away by a jet of water. As 2024’s 100th anniversary of surrealism still lingers in the cultural air, it’s a good moment to drop in on renowned Finnish artist Mox Mäkelä as she engages the scientific researcher Mikael Fortelius in an even more bizarre and extended chess game – using teeth as the board pieces.
From Behind Teeth
2025
NRIn René Clair’s classic 1924 short Entr’acte, Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray played a surreal game of chess until they were swept away by a jet of water. As 2024’s 100th anniversary of surrealism still lingers in the cultural air, it’s a good moment to drop in on renowned Finnish artist Mox Mäkelä as she engages the scientific researcher Mikael Fortelius in an even more bizarre and extended chess game – using teeth as the board pieces.
From Behind Teeth
2025
Experimental short featuring a shoe iron.
Posle Dozhdichka v Chetverg
2022
Experiemental short about dogs.
Godmother and Dog Sons
2010
Experimental short featuring a boy and a puppy.
Dog Fathers and Godsons
2024
Experimental documentary about the remaking of a ship.
Night Ship Doc
2015
He says that his family is deeply rooted and that he is carrying on the traditions. Others of us go far in life, like him, who started from scratch and made a lot out of it and built on it.
Manors and Maneuvers
2015
No synopsis available yet.
Laulu ei kuole
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In addition to the house and the forest, Violet has also inherited a practical nature and a lot of energy. Someone who has experienced her hustle and bustle said that the violet color in it is also accompanied by all shades of yellow.
Violet's Summer
2016
