Pirjo Honkasalo
- Directing
- February 22, 1947 · Helsinki, Finland
Biography
Pirjo Honkasalo is a highly established director, cinematographer and scriptwriter. She directed several feature films in the 1970s and 80s together with Pekka Lehto, including Flame Top which was in Cannes Competition in 1980. In the 1990s, she continued alone and turned to feature documentaries, directing the prize winning trilogy Mysterion, Tanjuska and the 7 Devils, and Atman. Since then, she has directed the stunningly beautiful The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (2004), and her return to fiction was Concrete Night in 2012.
Known for
Filmography
- Orenda · Director
- The Dinosaur · Self
- Donner - Private · Writer
- Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women · Self
- Concrete Night · Screenplay, Director
- ITO – A Diary of an Urban Priest · Director, Writer
- The Interrogation · Cinematography
- Helsinki, Forever · Thanks
- The 3 Rooms of Melancholia · Writer, Director
- Fire-Eater · Director
- Ingmar Bergman on Life and Work · Cinematography
- Atman · Director, Writer
- The Cinderella of Tallinn · Writer, Director
- Christmas in the Distance · Thanks
- Tanjuska and the 7 Devils · Director, Producer
- Mysterion · Still Photographer, Director
- Molle: A Director's Portrait of Academian Rauni Mollberg · Self
- Da Capo · Director, Editing
- 250 Grammes – A Radioactive Testament · Editing, Producer
- Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki · Cinematography, Director
- Flame Top · Director, Screenplay
- Two Forces · Self, Editing
- The Sign of Danger · Director, Writer
- Ikäluokka · Director, Writer
- The Earth Is a Sinful Song · Screenplay, Assistant Director
- Uuno Turhapuro · Nainen raitiovaunussa (uncredited)
- Hangover · Cinematography
- Hellyys · Camera Operator
- Marja pieni! · Cinematography
- Laulu tulipunaisesta kukasta · Still Photographer
- Pilvilinna · Cinematography
- Portraits of Women · Film Crew Member (uncredited), Still Photographer
- The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth · Director, Writer
- Before I die · Director