Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen explained

Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen
Birth Date:	and
Birth Place:	Finland
Occupation:	Film directors
Years Active:	2009–present
Website:	http://www.pohjankonna.fi

Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen are Finnish filmmakers.

Biography

Hannes Vartiainen met Pekka Veikkolainen in Järvenpää in 1990. After finishing high school Vartiainen graduated as a film director from the Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia while Veikkolainen studied graphic design at the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture.^[1]

They have been working together since 2007, founding a production company Pohjankonna Oy in 2008 and finishing their first film in 2009. Since then they have released a number of short films (that won numerous awards^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]} and had books written about them^[8]), entered the world of fulldome films (founding Leading Note Pictures Oy in 2017) and dipped into VR.^[9]

Their frequent collaborators include Joonatan Portaankorva (who has composed and sound designed all the films) and Janne Pulkkinen (who specialises in visualising micro-CT and other forms of volumetric data).^[10]

Filmography

Short films

• Hanasaari A (2009)
• The Death of an Insect / Erään hyönteisen tuho (2010)
• Gates of Life / Häivähdys elämää (2012)
• Emergency Calls / Hätäkutsu (2013)
• Finlandia review no. 701 / Finlandia-katsaus no. 701 (2017)
• Optic Identity (2017) together with Janne Pulkkinen and Huayi Wei
• Taking the Floor / Puheenvuoro (2017)

Fulldome films

• The Secret World of Moths / Yöperhosten salattu maailma (2016)
• The Baltic Sea / Itämeri (2018)
• The Embrace of the Ocean / Meren uumen (2019)

External links

• Pohjankonna Oy website
• Pohjankonna Oy vimeo
• Tomographic renders

Notes and References

1. Web site: Festival Scope page.
2. Web site: Helsingin Sanomat about Hanasaari A.
3. Web site: YLE's article on The Death of an Insect.
4. Web site: Guanojuato Film Festival winners.
5. Web site: Flatpack Film Festival winners.
6. Web site: Fulldome Festival winners. 2019-07-12. 2019-07-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20190712064724/https://fulldome-festival.de/winners-2/. dead.
7. Web site: Imagine Science winners.
8. Web site: Sanokaa mitä näitte - a book by Harri Römpötti.
9. Web site: Ghent University profile. 2019-05-06. 2019-05-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20190516103207/https://www.ugent.be/we/ugct/en/research/pohjankonna-oy. dead.
10. Web site: Nature Middle East interview. 2019-05-06. 2019-05-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20190506180107/http://blogs.nature.com/houseofwisdom/2017/03/the-finnish-trio-navigating-the-natural-world-through-3d-art.html. dead.