Am I Calling You at a Bad Time

X is growing up in the 1990s, she makes prank calls as a child and gets her first job in telephone sales as a teenager. Office smells, heavy breathers, and meaningless greetings follow her from one workplace to another. Through archival material and amateur video footage, the narrative reflects X's actions as a faceless subject playing with her voice as a commercialised asset. Am I Calling You At A Bad Time is an experimental documentary with fictional elements based on recollections of true events.

Martta Tuomaala is a visual artist (MA) who works between documentary and fiction. She focuses on various forms of film, video and installation. Over the past decade she has mainly concentrated on work culture and workers’ issues. Tuomaala has worked in many low-income fields and her own experiences have inspired her to create projects emphasizing workers’ rights. In her recent artworks, a notable satirical touch and expressive body language are evident, but the form and the tone of the artwork depends largely on the content that is dealt with. Tuomaala is a co-founder of Kenno Filmi co-op, a production house proposing reconfigurations of film and media art production practices through creative exchanges.