Ilppo Pohjola

Ilppo Pohjola was born on Jan 30, 1957 in Finland. Ilppo Pohjola's big-screen debut came with Daddy and the Muscle Academy directed by Ilppo Pohjola in 1991.

Independent filmmaker / producer Ilppo Pohjola works with the vocabulary of film, examining its structural and social elements in order to create a body of work that pushes the limits of the medium's physical possibilities. He works between the narrative tropes of Hollywood and the deconstructive methodologies of independent film. The cumulative bodies of knowledge in Pohjola's works are noticeable for their crispness of conception and excess of information. Given his interest in the formal elements of filmmaking, the content of Pohjola's works are surprisingly physical and sensual, even if assaultive.