My name is Mirkka Suhonen. I am a Finnish filmmaker, visual artist and an art educator, currently working on a film project set in a daoist kung fu school in Wudang mountain, China. The fiction film, The First Sword of Wudang, premiered in June 2018, and in 2020 I released a documentary, Kung Fu Brothers, to complete the project. I am now working on an online release.

For me, there is nothing more interesting than the process of discovery, whether it is travelling the world and learning from other cultures, or the creative process of art-making. Films are my passion, but I also enjoy digital photography, drawing, painting, and graphic design. I am very much into the spectacular, and in the past I have organized concept events combining film, music and performance art.

I put a lot of time and effort in my projects, and I want them to be meaningful. My subjects and topics are often inspiring people or things that I find neglected or forgotten. In my works, I wish to contribute to preserving cultural heritage, and examine interesting ways in which traditional and contemporary culture clash and coexist.

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