Eija-Liisa Ahtila (*1959) studied at the Helsinki University, the London College of Printing and then at both UCLA and the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. After experimentation with photography, installation art and performance art, Ahtila turned to film and video in the 1990s. Ahtila's main preoccupation is the narrative and what she terms ‘human dramas'. In 2000 she was the first recipient of the Vincent van Gogh Award for Contemporary Art in Europe.
