I film e la musica sono paesaggi sperimentali del sentire che esplorano i temi del pathos, della malinconia e della speranza, come alla ricerca di racconti privati nascosti e sotto il dogma di non avere a che fare con il tempo in modo lineare. Abitati da un clima weird, multicomposito e trasognato, i suoi live alternano sostenuti momenti ritmici densissimi di sonorità dalle provenienze più improbabili a divagazioni cinematiche liriche e sospese.
Sami Sänpäkkilä aka Es lives and works near the forests of Tampere, Finland. He is a musician, film-maker and, since 1995, the head of Fonal Records (releasing 55 records of experimental, folk, ambient and popular genre). To date he has released five full length releases under the name Es. Sami has made more than 20 short films and music videos which have been screened in various museums, art galleries and film festivals around the world.
The films and the music are experimental moodscapes that explore the themes of melancholy, pathos and hope. His films and music are concerned with discovering hidden private narratives and does not deal with time in a linear fashion. Es’s live performances are inhabited by weird and dreamy atmospheres, balancing bizarre moments of dense rhythmic sound with more unlikely lyrical and suspended cinematic digressions.