About the artist
Media artist and filmmaker Jan Ijäs (born 1975) lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. Ijäs works with documentary, fiction and alternative film. The films of Ijäs deal with serious and difficult social themes, like migration into foreign and hostile societies. Ijäs's films have been shown very widely abroad by over a hundred film festivals (including Tribeca Film Festival 2014) and as installations in museums and galleries.