The special screening of works by VAFT 2025 juror Pilvi Takala has been compiled around the festival theme “Curiosity”. Takala's video works are based on performative interventions in which she explores specific communities to focus on societal structures to question the normative rules of our behaviors and truths in different contexts. Takala proves that often the hidden rules of a specific social situation are revealed only by disruption.

The Trainee (2008) 13:52 min (Finnish with English subtitles)

Real Snow White (2009) 9:19 min (French and English with English subtitles)

The Stroker (2018) 10:15 min (English, no subtitles)

If your heart wants it (2020) 15:37 min (English, no subtitles)

Pilvi Takala (b. 1981) is one of the best-known and successful video artists of her generation, whose works have been shown in Finland and abroad at MoMA PS1, the New Museum, Palais de Tokyo, Kunsthalle Basel, Manifesta, and the Istanbul and Venice Biennales.