Films and Installations

Photosphere

Film
Photosphere

Photons of Mars

Installation
Photons of Mars

The Other Side of Mars

Film
The Other Side of Mars

Being, Increasingly

Film, Installation
Being, Increasingly

To Melt

Film, Installation
To Melt

Thin Membrane

Installation
Thin Membrane

The Line

Film
The Line

The Sleep Lab

Installation
The Sleep Lab

The Chinese Room

Film, Installation
The Chinese Room

Biography

Minna Långström is a filmmaker and moving image artist from Helsinki, Finland. Her films, often dealing with questions of perception, representation and various mediated narratives, have been screened at several international film festivals such as Bergen IFF, Helsinki International Film Festival and Jihlava IDFF. One of her most recent films is the award winning one hour docummentary The Other Side of Mars (napafilms 2019). Her feature screenplay was selected for the 28th eQuinoxe International Screenwriters’ Workshop in Germany, fall 2023. Her moving image installation work have been exhibited internationally at museums such as Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Arts, Frankfurter Kunstverein and Charlottenborg Kunsthal in Copenhagen and is part of the Finnish National Gallery collection. In both her films and installations the intuitive, active experience of the viewer is a central aspect.

In addition to her artistic work, she founded a company that produced short and mid length films between 2002-2008 and held the position of assistant professor in moving image at the University of Arts in Helsinki 2008-2012.

Curriculum Vitae

News & Blog

Two weeks of story structure work with Claire Dobbin.

Two weeks of story structure work with Claire Dobbin.

May 22, 2025

Two focussed and insightful weeks of story work on a new screenplay with the outstanding writer, dramaturg and script editor Claire Dobbin. The work took place as part of the Pro Artibus’ Residence-in-Residence program connected to my ongoing residence at Villa Snäcksund.  

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Short film selected for Nordic Short Film Pitch @ Nordisk Panorama

Short film selected for Nordic Short Film Pitch @ Nordisk Panorama

September 11, 2024

Theory and Practice, a short fiction film in development,  was selected for the Nordic Short Film Pitch for invited market guests at the Nordisk Panorama Film Festival in Malmö, 19-24.9.2024. Writer and Director: Minna Långström Producer: Mika Ritalahti, Silva Mysterium Photo Credits: Päivi Kettunen, F.S.C.  

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3 Channel Film Installation Photons of Mars exhibited @ Photo North 24. September 2024 – 19. January 2025

3 Channel Film Installation Photons of Mars exhibited @ Photo North 24. September 2024 – 19. January 2025

July 13, 2024

The More-than-Planet exhibition by Photo North – Northern Photographic Center in Oulu, will take place in Photo North’s galleries Valve and Photo North galleries. The More-Than_Planet-exhibition, opening on the 24th of September and running until the 19th of January 2025, focuses on environmental literacy, offering perspectives and views from space, the forests and beneath the … Read More

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Publications, exhibition and film screening, fall 2023

Publications, exhibition and film screening, fall 2023

December 15, 2023

The Other Side of Mars was screened as part of a lecture series Landscape Revisited at the Helsinki University of Arts, organized by professor and artist Sigrid Sandström. A book with essays and photographs based on the lectures was later published, by the university press. It is available here.        The Other Side … Read More

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Exhibition and screenings, autumn 2022

Exhibition and screenings, autumn 2022

September 16, 2022

The Photons of Mars three channel film installation is shown as part of the Waag Society‘s More-Than-Planet exhibition curated by Miha Turšič. Taking place in the world’s oldest university observatory in Leiden the exhibition opened on July 1st , and closes December 23rd 2022. The exhibition More Than Planet was reviewed by Annick Bureaud for … Read More

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We Make Money Not Art Review on the Supre:Organism – exhibition

We Make Money Not Art Review on the Supre:Organism – exhibition

November 17, 2019

A review on the Supre:Organism – exhibition has been published on the We Make Money Not Art – blog. The Photons of Mars installation was shown as part of the group exhibition Supre:Organism at Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen in the Netherlands, by the Waag Society. The curator of the exhibition was Miha Turšič. Photons of Mars, 2019. Waag & Kunstfort bij … Read More

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Residency at SPACE Art + Technology in London

Residency at SPACE Art + Technology in London

June 10, 2019

During three months, October – December 2019, I worked on a short documentary and a feature film script at a residency at the SPACE Studios in London. The residency provided external mentorship (from Film London) and it was awarded via an open call for the Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts alumni by the Academy of … Read More

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The Other Side of Mars premiere at DocPoint 2019

The Other Side of Mars premiere at DocPoint 2019

January 10, 2019

  The one hour documentary The Other Side of Mars, produced by Liisa Karpo at napafilms, has its premiere at the Doc Point Festival in Helsinki. The film was screened in three different theatres, including three Q&As.  

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Contact

+358 41 5348 603

Cable Factory, Tallberginkatu 1,
00180 Helsinki, Finland

minna.langstrom@gmail.com