Letters to Katja (1989)
Amber Films | Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen
Film and Video
A deeply personal documentary by Finnish-born photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen on her return to her native Finland with her daughter Katja, after 23 years in Britain.
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My Finnish Routes
Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen
Photographic
A photographic reflection on landscape, memory and environmental change, made by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen during her return to Finland in 1992 after decades working in Britain.
River Project
Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen
Photographic
Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s photographs of the River Tyne’s industrial landscape formed part of Amber’s first major group collaboration - a touring exhibition that led to the founding of Side.
Mai (1973)
Amber Films
Film and Video
A film portrait of the eccentric and obsessive collector Mai Finglass - landlady to founder Amber members Murray Martin and Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, when students in London.
The Writing in the Sand (1991)
Amber Films
Film and Video
An evocation of beach life in the North East of England, constructed from Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's black & white photographs spanning from the 1970s - early 1990s.
The Hoppings
Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen
Photographic
Photographed in the early 1970s, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s The Hoppings captures the rich visual culture of Europe’s largest travelling fair on Newcastle’s Town Moor.
A Song for Billy
Amber Films
Film and Video
A photo film blending Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s "Coal Coast" images with an original score by So Percussion - reflecting on memory, landscape and post-industrial change.
Byker (1983)
Amber Films | Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen
Film and Video
A partly dramatised documentary film built around Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's photographs of the Newcastle terraced community, demolished to make way for the Byker Wall Estate in the 1970s.
Today I'm With You (2010)
Amber Films
Film and Video
A documentary film arising out of Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's Byker Revisited portraits, exploring the new and changing communities in Newcastle's Byker Wall Estate.
Step by Step
Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen
Photographic
Photographed in the 1980s, Step by Step is Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s portrait of mother and daughter relationships and female community within a North Shields dancing school.
Byker Revisited
Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen
Photographic
A portrait of life in the Byker Wall Estate, capturing the changing community that replaced the original streets Konttinen photographed in the 1970s.
Honnos My Fiddler
Pentti Sammallahti
Photographic
A photographic series documenting Romani communities in Transylvania in the early 1980s, focusing on daily life, family structures and cultural practices within rural village settings.
The Coal Coast
Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen
Photographic
Colour photographs of Durham’s post-industrial shoreline, developed between 1998-2002, capturing the haunting beauty and environmental legacy of its coal mining past.
T Dan Smith (1987)
Amber Films
Film and Video
Leader of Newcastle City Council, 1958 - 1965, T Dan Smith was a controversial politician. This docu-drama film takes an experimental structure to deal with the uncertainty of the evidence around his conviction for corruption in 1974.
Keeping Time (1983)
Amber Films
Film and Video
An experimental film, blending drama, documentary footage, and still photographs into a continuous narrative to explore mother daughter relationships and a dancing school in North Shields.
Urban Landscapes
Isabela Jedrzejczyk
Photographic
Photographs of Newcastle and North Tyneside, commissioned as part of the North Tyneside Survey, 1979.
The Art of Shipbuilding (2017)
Amber Films
Film and Video
A 2017 photofilm by Amber bringing together shipyard poetry, painting, photography and film to reflect on the community, memory and artistry of Tyneside shipbuilding.
Writing In The Sand
Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen
Photographic
A photographic celebration of the life of beaches in the North East of England, captured between 1973 and 1998.