Below, you will find a selection of written work. Please click on the categories to reveal individual texts.
Experience of practice based research and using primary source material in several archives and libraries including:
The British Library, Colindale Newspaper Library, London Metropolitan Archives, British Film Institute, Theatre Museum Covent Garden, Victoria and Albert Museum, Senate House Library collections, University of London, SSEES and SOAS collections, University of London, The British Museum.
Stock image and film archive experience for film and documentary purposes. Experience of interviewing for research e.g. camera facility staff and production companies for production terminology not yet existent in Finnish during the translation of the book 'Filming on a Microbudget.'
Please see the Office page for details of tutoring and other work within the educational sector.Past academic studies and practical research projects include:
Plasticine: a screenplay development tool that became a book project comparing and analysing the systems of so-called 'screenwriting gurus'.
This AVEK (the Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture) funded project is currently in development. Please click here for samples, and here for video, including images and the following chapters: Introduction, Aristotle, Syd Field.
Bach's partita no 2
Richard Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra
Clement Greenberg on Modernist
painting
Voltaire's Candide
Akseli Gallen-Kallela's painting 'Lemminkäinen's
Mother'
Please see the Creative page for commercial treatments, storyboarding and other related writing. For screenplay translations, see below.
Divine Consultants 54x1" animation series created and produced by Juha Fiilin of Fiilin Good Films and the Finnish national broadcaster YLE. Working as a screenwriter on the series storylines and episodes. See here for sample for an early and very different season outline , the produced early season outline and a script sample for a produced, earlier version of the series with Jan Andersson's great artwork.
Children of the Sun A five page synopsis for magic realist animation short.
Erased A feature screenplay synopsis and treatment. Click here for a sample.
Zero A short screenplay, outline and statement of intent. Zero deals with similar themes as the later Erased and is an attempt to write with as little dialogue as possible. Click here for samples.
Dendrokronologia A study for the opening scenes of an intercultural screenplay with contrasting characters from C17th and C20th. Click here for samples.
English National Opera Interactive (Screenwriting/Theatre) A video treatment/ proposal for the ‘Lost Highway Behind the Scenes’ project based on the David Lynch film. Written with the documentarist Pentti Turunen. Click here for the treatment.
Tracing paper/Fragments (Theatre/video) An experimental, game-like participatory performance text for live performance and four screens. Click here for concept and proposal.
Four Characters (Stage Adaptation) The theatrical premiere of Steven Soderbergh's ‘sex, lies and videotape’ together with Luigi Pirandello's ‘Six Characters in search of an Author’ in a new piece exploring suburban ennui and role-play. “A relationship begins with its pathology. Identity begins with its histories.” Click here for the programme and notes and here for the adaptation text.
Persona (Stage Adaptation) The British Premiere of Ingmar Bergman's classic film, reworking the piece into a modern context of cultural hybridity and rejection of past personal choices - a mixed-race child. This play further explores the theme of identity, which began with adapting ‘sex, lies and videotape’. Here, instead of working on the creation of identity, exactly the opposite - the erosion of it - is explored. Click here for notes/sketches and here for the images and proposal text
The Mating Dance Written for the Performance Night Platform in London, this is a one-act
absurdist melodrama written for a Japanese messiah,
Freud, death-row
convict and three photographs.
Very compact and dense in form, it is an exploration of audience interaction and
collaboration - and
the opposite, dividing
and deliberately misleading
the audience -
and using local information the writer/performer
knows the audience has, to play with insider jokes and references.
It also explores hybrid characters, absurdist narrative
techniques and 'narrative curve balls' - making references that wander off, or switch the content, to
subvert the
audience's assumed or conventional expectations. This continues an interest in split scenes/staging e.g. in
Maria Irene Fornes's work, the simultaneous scenes and overlapping character identities in the Four
Characters and Persona productions and the Tracing Paper/Fragments experiment (above), which employ almost
film-like narrative and editing techniques.
See here
for play text.
Article on the state of screenwriting, immigrant voices and Finnish cinema abroad for AVEK magazine (2005). Click here for the article (referenced in Maria Sainio's Master's degree dissertation here).
Article for Lehtiset magazine’s ‘Tämän haluaisin tehdä’ series on the film Delicatessen. Click here for the text.
Articles for an early example of a satirical fake news blog It’s All Lies (2005-6) on topics as varied as the new MTV dating series ‘Unlikely Match’, George. W. Bush on grammar and his ‘New Compassionism’, frozen concentrated orange juice panic on the stock market and Margaret Thatcher’s flirty side.
Other reviews:
(For blog posts, please see the 'Articles and Reviews' section above. For Technical and Marketing translations, see 'Translation' below.)
Below you will find Finnish and English translation work for film, TV and the theatre, for marketing and very specialised fields, such as legal and technical translation. Some jobs included related services, such as subtitling, audio transcription, graphic and layout work, writing or video editing, all carried out by a seasoned media professional.
Translation profile on Proz.comVoiceover samples (submitted as samples for an agency job in Los Angeles)
Technical translation
Finnwind – contract, website, operational manual
translations for wind and
solar energy company.
Kaspersky software HMTL user manual file translation and a
style guide and glossaries for GameStreamer
Film and photography Translation of two Canon related books:
Better Images with Canon Legria Camcorders
and
Better Images with Canon Lenses and Flashes by Jukka Kolari
Other end
clients include: Garmin, Kavika, Konecranes,
Saher, Cypress Wind, Synlab Neobona, Abloy locks.
Advertising & Marketing (incl. corporate magazine copy)
Teekauppa Chaya – translations for various tea making
products.
Other end clients include: Triumph
motorcycles,
KONE, Konecranes, Arcada, Twentieth Century Fox, Warner
Brothers, KONE, Visit Finland, T&A Mämmelä, Tikkurila,
Comatec, Paloheimo, MEK,
Kemira, Petsafe,
Dräger medical and safety equipment, Music Television, Hotel Haikko Manor, Villa Kutuluoto, Levi Summit,
Tracker GPS hunting accessories.
Legal and financial
Aalto University (Taik and HSE) - 120 page IP/copyright law guide for the creative arts; various press
statements and documents. Link to current online
version of the guide.
The cities of Helsinki and Turku - contracts and other documents, e.g. tender documents.
The European Enterprise Awards.
Other end clients include: Finavia, Laurea, AstraZeneca, Valio, Maritime Transport & Harbor
Services, The
Finnish National Board of Customs, HSL, Talentum publishing house, The Centre for Occupational Safety
occupational safety exams, Helsinki City Transport.
Film and Television
Subtitling Diving into the
Unknown
documentary
Juan Reina and Marc Hoeferlin, Monami Agency
Screenplay translation and subtitling Keys of
Heaven (Paratiisin Avaimet) by Hamy Ramezan and Ilmari Aho
Translation of synopsis, screenplay drafts and subtitling of completed film, produced by For Real
Productions. Click here for a sample.
Television series translation
Television series synopses for Love
&
Order
(Myrskyn jälkeen)
by Leea Klemola and Kaarina Hazard, produced by Elokuvayhtiö Aamu.
Screenplay translation
Citizen B by Hamy Ramezan and The Gold Diggers by Auli Mantila - feature treatment and screenplay
translations, produced by Elokuvayhtiö Aamu.
Subtitling Hannu Aukia's short film ‘Helsinki-Turku’ for No-Office
Subtitling Criterion Collection/Subtext Subtitling - subtitling of Where
is Musette?, the making of
documentary for Aki Kaurismäki’s film La vie Boheme by Veikko Nieminen and Jarkko Vesteri
Subtitling YLF-vertalingen - subtitling the feature documentary The Year 1952’ by Peter von
Bagh for his
tribute program at the Rotterdam Film Festival.
Subtitling synopses and press kit materials:
Kinotar - Six Day
Run (Kuuden päivän
juoksu) dir. Mika Taanila
For Real Productions - Alppikatu 25 dir. Marika Väisänen and Inka Achté
Subtitling Mete Sasioglu/Filmfly and Sons of Lumiere:
Various translation, subtitling and dramaturgy work
Salpa (Latch, proofing the
dialogue list), Yhden
miehen elokuva (One man’s movie, subtitling), Samuli Valkama's Here and Now (utelias iho)
Tero Saarinen documentary trailer subtitling, translation of contracts and speaker scripts.
Subtitling European Commission video subtitling for Semantis, Paris.
Subtitling Schnelluebersetzer GmbH - Mondi Lohja health & safety audio transcription/translation
Film book translations
(Publication proposals to invigorate and internationalise the Finnish independent film scene - these
projects
ultimately didn't go through due to funding reasons)
Stage
Translations for the stage include selections from the work of:
(click for samples)
Bernard Marie Koltes: Paluu Aavikolle (Return to the
Desert)
Jose Rivera: Marisol
Maria Irene Fornes: Mudassa (Mud)
Henry Adam Naapuritalon väki (The people next door)
Literary translation
Holy Week (Piinaviikko) by Maritta Lintunen
Submission for the Finnish Institute’s fiction translation competition, 2009. Click here for
sample.