A cinephile from an early age, Arttu dropped out of engineering studies in favour of fool-hearted filmmaking ambitions. Originally from Finland, he studied editing and post-production at the Tampere University of Applied Sciences with a whirlwind semester of film studies at the prestigious FAMU (Prague) and finally completed a Master’s degree in film editing from the National Film + Television School (UK).
Based in London for more than a decade now, he enjoys crafting stories with their own distinct feel, language and form. Already exhibiting a wide variety, through commercials, animation, music videos, arthouse, experimental and dance films, he consciously tries to pick projects offering new challenges and opportunities to learn.
His latest work includes the boldly erotic gay identity drama SEBASTIAN (dir. Mikko Mäkelä) which premiered at Sundance 2024 (World Cinema Dramatic Competition), the A24-produced fantasy dramedy TUESDAY (dir. Daina O. Pusic) starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, which premiered at Telluride last year, and the dystopian drama THE END WE START FROM (dir. Mahalia Belo) starring Jodie Comer, which premiered at Toronto, and garnered him a nomination for BEST EDITING at the British Independent Film Awards 2023.
His work spans across many genres and styles, both in fiction and documentary, and has screened at Sundance, Berlinale, Toronto, Telluride, Hot Docs, Tribeca, Anima Mundi, AFI Fest, BFI London, Bristol Encounters and Sheffield DOC/FEST, and broadcast by the BBC, Sky Arts, Al Jazeera and YLE Finland.