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ANTTI ALANEN
Kapteeninkatu 5 C 33
00140 Helsinki
FINLAND
+358 40 9000464
antti.alanen@gmail.com
Blog: Antti Alanen Film Diary
Antti Alanen is since 2023 an independent film historian, critic and teacher. He has written books on Marilyn Monroe, the horror film (with his brother Asko Alanen) and the music video (with visual design by Ilppo Pohjola) and encyclopedias of major films and film directors. He has edited five volumes on film and psychoanalysis. He has contributed to books including Encyclopedia of Early Cinema and the Finnish national filmography and monographies on Orson Welles, Steven Soderbergh, Valentin Vaala, Teuvo Tulio, Hannu Leminen, Salla Tykkä, Jörn Donner, F. M. Dostoevsky and Lev Tolstoy. He has also contributed to books about copyright and Amazon. He has translated books by Georg Simmel, Walter Benjamin and Robin Wood, also Lindsay Anderson’s About John Ford, and edited the Finnish translation of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sculpting in Time. Peter von Bagh entrusted Alanen to edit his posthumous papers in a series of online publications.
Alanen worked in 1980–2023 at the Finnish Film Archive (now National Audiovisual Institute), first as a regional programmer in Tampere, and since 1985 as film programmer, successor to Peter von Bagh. In 2001-2023 he was active also in PACC (Programming and Access to Collections Commission), also as its head in 2006-2011. Alanen was the director of the Finnish Board of Film Classification in 1996-1998 when film censorship was abolished in Finland. Since 2019, Alanen is a member of the board of the Finnish Film Foundation.
