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"Everything happens as if the universe were a tremendous Memory." (Gilles Deleuze)

Ilkka Ilmari Levä (b. 1967)

Freelance artist, writer and director, writer and researcher, precarious artist, film student, Ph.D.

Fiction novel "Hyvän ihmisen sielunmessu" (Requiem for a Decent Human) (Käsite-kirjat - Concept Books, 2021).

Screenwriter (Short film Gulya + own films)

Director

Cinematographer x 6 own films plus 4 short films for other directors.

Feature Film: 

Agilem or Fragments of a Life of Head, 2018 (Director's Cut 2022) 

Short Films:

  • eat (co-director: Olli-Pekka Toivanen, DOP: Niko Alajoki, Finland 2014)
  • Dada of Love (DOP: Niko Alajoki, Finland 2015)
  • Harenae Misericordiae (DOP: Niko Alajoki, Finland 2015)
  • Big Sleep (DOP: Niko Alajoki, Finland 2016)
  • When Harry Left Sally (DOP: Niko Alajoki, Finland 2017)
  • Bardo of Dying (DOP: Niko Alajoki, Finland 2017)
  • Stand Up! (DOP: Niko Alajoki, Finland 2018)
  • Capital (DOP: Niko Alajoki, Finland 2019)
  • VLF or Car Crush (DOP: Niko Alajoki, Finland 2019)
  • Na[rraa]tion synty "The Birth of Na[rra]tion" (DOP: Niko Alajoki, Finland 2019)
  • Keskusteluja gorillan kanssa "Conversations with the Gorilla" (DOP: Ilkka Levä, Finland 2020)
  • Kärpästen herra "The Lord of the Flies" (DOP: Niko Alajoki, Finland 2020)
  • Yhtiökokous "General Meeting" (DOP: Ilkka Levä, Lasse Poser, Niko Alajoki, Finland 2020) 
  • (Non)Pret (DOP: Ilkka Levä, Finland 2020)
  • Auringon alla – Under the Sun (DOP: Niko Alajoki, Suomi 2021. Screenplay and directing together with Hannele Kuusisto)
  • Anamnesis – Gaea Latitudes, vol. I: Ecocide (DOP: Ilkka Levä, Finland 2021)
  • Une Vie de Frédéric Nietzsche (DOP: Niko Alajoki, Finland 2022)
  • The String (co-director: Henrik Majava, DOP: Joona Nieminen, Finland 2022)
  • An Anatomy of a Certain Mind Blowing (DOP: Lasse Poser, Finland 2022)
  • L'Amerika (DOP: Ilkka Levä, Finland 2023) 
  • What is a Dividual? (DOP: Ilkka Levä, Finland 2023)
  • Deuteranopia (DOP: Ilkka Levä, Finland 2023)
  • Pieni pala valoa - Rays of Light (DOP: Joona Nieminen, Finland 2023; Producer Sofia Jalonen, Tuotantotalo Karuselli - Turku University of Applied Sciences)