Marja Viitahuhta is a Helsinki-based visual artist and filmmaker who grew up in the Inari region in Northern Finland. Her works are often based on archive materials, interviews and collaboration. She sets the visual elements in each work in dialogue with its narrative or audial material.
She holds a BA degree in performance art from the Turku Arts Academy and an MFA degree from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts.
Her works have been screened, exhibited and performed at international film and media art festivals, in gallery and museum spaces, in public spaces as well as online and on television. She has been awarded internationally at Cannes Film Festival, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Mediawave and L’Alternativa. Her works have been acquired to public collections by the MoMA (New York, USA), Saastamoinen Foundation (Espoo, Finland) and Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum (Helsinki, Finland).
Since 2019 she has collaborated with the musicians Ánnámáret (yoiking), Ilkka Heinonen (carelian bowed lyre) and Turkka Inkilä (electronics) since 2019, creating visual counterparts to their music, publishing a series of video works and performing in live concerts combining the moving image and the music. In addition to her artistic work Viitahuhta has worked as an art teacher and lecturer.

Ánnámáret aka Anna Näkkäläjärvi-Länsman is a musician and a yoiker who belongs to the Arctic indigenous people Sámi. Her unique voice and yoik interpretation are directly descended from the nomadic culture of her ancestors, the Reindeer Sámi.
In recent years, Ánnámáret has researched the luohti (Northern Sami yoiking) tradition of her family by studying old archive recordings. She has convened a four-member working group where the sound of the Carelian bowed lyre jouhikko by Ilkka Heinonen, organic electronic music by Turkka Inkilä and moving images by Marja Viitahuhta meet with her luohtis, the norther Sami yoiking.
Since she is the convener of the group and the works deal with her cultural heritage, the working group wishes to mention her whenever the video works and films are shown. The collaboration in many ways defys and rearranges the traditional hierarchies of working groups of film production: the works are born out of a process of sharing, listening, suggesting, contemplating and playing together.
As a musician Ánnámáret gets inspiration from the arctic nature in Sápmi and the Sámi culture and way of living. She makes music and lives on the tundra with her reindeer-herder family.