Kristina Laine’s and Albert Laine’s Memories in the Clouds (2023) was selected for the international competition of Melbourne International Animation Festival, held from 5–12 May 2024 in Australia. Memories in the Clouds is included in the international competition programme 1,… Read more »
August Joensalo’s The Rootless and Azar Saiyar’s Solar Book screened at the International Ethnographic Film Festival Québec, Montréal
August Joensalo’s The Rootless (2024, in featured image) and Azar Saiyar’s Solar Book (2024) will be screened at the International Ethnographic Film Festival Québec (FIFEQ), held in Montréal from May 7–11 2024. Both films are included in a short film… Read more »
Exit Song
Kaisu Koski
New work
Exit Song embraces one of the most misunderstood nocturnal creatures, the rat. It is a requiem to a rat-like creature, Bramble Cay Melomys, the first mammal recorded to become extinct as a result of anthropogenic climate change in 2016. The music video includes speculative-performative interventions with real and imaginary... Read more »
Ali Tajunnan
Petteri Cederberg
New work
An abstract video artwork that explores the logic of the subconscious and the emergence of ideas.
Read more »Acting Screensaver (for Mac)
Arja Kärkkäinen
New work
Acting Screensaver (for Mac) is a dance performance in which an actor imitates the classic screen saver Flurry by Apple. The video can be set as a screensaver.
Read more »Sentences
Jaakko Pietiläinen
New work
Sentences is a 20-minute architectural journey into the labyrinthine interiors of late capitalism. The film follows the POV of its protagonist on their passage through an endless building complex. By its vast, chaotic and eclectic setting, Sentences immerses the viewer into a state of constant liminality. The film studies... Read more »
Rat and Border Dog
Vesa-Pekka Rannikko
New work
"Rat and Border Dog" is a poetic animation fable about the insignificance of the human-built border zone for nature. The work is a hand-drawn sketch-like animation, where animals, plants and poems are drawn into the picture and build a collage of parallel events. Animation is a network where the human logic takes a back... Read more »
Diabolus ex Machina
Niina Suominen
New work
When the capabilities of technology are pushed over the limits, beautiful devils come out. Image sequences focused on white screens of consumer electronics were shot with handheld camera. Experimental piece made in the spirit of concretism and avantgarde animation.
Read more »Contingent Space 3
Leda Vaneva
New work
Contingent Space is a series of virtual collages built up from physical parts. The viewer is guided to explore the environment through a specific route. Entering one of the spaces is similar to entering a dream. It is another layer of reality where the physical is transformed into intangible.
Read more »When Will the Day Break
Sanna Liljander
New work
When Will the Day Break is a romantic documentary film that travels on the borders of dreams, memories, hope and realism.
Read more »Mothering
Minna Suoniemi
New work
In Mothering, an adult daughter carries her mother on her back, struggling through the forest. The chorus soundtrack repeats in a loop. Mothering refers to motherhood as an ongoing and changing active state of being and caring, not necessarily tied to biological motherhood alone. The Finnish title Äitiä (to... Read more »
Message in a Bottle
Sami Ala
New work
It is interesting to think what kind of consequences it would have if we were to get in touch with alien, human-like beings on other planets. It is interesting to think about what kind of feelings a person projects into the intellectual life they are looking for. It would be interesting especially if their civilisation was... Read more »
If You Fall, We Will Fall Too
Leena Kela
New work
The video performance If You Fall, We Will Fall Too takes place in a primeval forest in Southwest Finland. Performance artist Leena Kela and seven performers with different ages and backgrounds have settled among the old trees. The performers move very slowly, rising and falling in different rhythms. The silence of the old... Read more »
Flight
Lau Rämö
New work
Some familiar form, small and significant – an individual – takes shape in the dark. The video work pauses at this twisted flight, focusing the gaze to the cyclicity and fragility of life. The video work is viewed as a small scale projection inside a dark hut. It fits inside one person at a time.
Read more »I must alter myself into a life-form which can exist on this planet
Lau Rämö
New work
The work feels and imagines life in an environment that is in flux, time and the water element, where it dives inside. By imitating, stumbling, flowing, taking over, hiding and shapeshifting, life re-organises itself. Again and again. A four-channel installation version of the video piece is also available by request.
Read more »MEDIA
Sauli Tvaltvadze
New work
Video performance about mass communication. One month has passed since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. A performer filmed in Helsinki listens to radio stations in Moscow on his phone and simultaneously interprets what he hears in Finnish.
Read more »The Closing Circle
Kai Oka
New work
The Closing Circle depicts the inner journey of a female protagonist into the mythopoetic world, which opens up the possibility of self-realization for her. The film's visual language deviates from conventional realism and naturalism, guiding the viewer into the protagonist's dreamlike reality.
Read more »Blue Green
Kai Oka
New work
Filmed in Oslo by Kai Oka, Blue Green is a fast-paced, impressionistic film. As the director himself said: ”This was done on a trip to visit my sister. Inspired by Stan Brakhage, I let the camera roam around freely”.
Read more »Confluence
Kai Oka
New work
Black and white images of back-and-forth zooms in a courtyard in Eira glide over each other, forming a hypnotic choreography of film grain. According to Oka, the film was inpired by Malcolm LeGrice's book Abstract Film and Beyond (1977).
Read more »Before and After Zeno
Kai Oka
New work
A dense synthesis of Oka's cinematic thinking that exudes mysterious beauty. The film is loosely based on Italo Svevo's modernist novel ”Zeno's Conscience” (1923), and it can be seen as a mythological-poetic self-portrait of its maker.
Read more »Oblivion Way
Kai Oka
New work
Filmed near the futuristic office and shopping centre complex Place Vílle Marie in Montréal, the bustling streets are juxtaposed with reproduced images of Raquel Welch, the walk on the Moon, op art, hospital series, and show wrestling shot from a television screen.
Read more »Go Short International Short Film Festival Nijmegen presents Pilvi Takala’s retrospective
Go Short International Short Film Festival Nijmegen presents Pilvi Takala’s retrospective. The programme includes also new shorts by Anssi Kasitonni, Ville Koskinen, Elli Vuorinen, and Matti Harju. Go Short is held from April 3–7 2024 in the Netherlands. Maker in… Read more »
International Women’s Film Fest Dortmund+Cologne presents Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s installation Those Who Kept the Light
Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s multi-channel installation Those Who Kept the Light is included in the Panorama / Formfragen section of International Women’s Film Fest Dortmund+Cologne, held in Cologne from April 16–21 2024. The series will be installed in Filmhaus Köln during… Read more »
Hannaleena Heiska’s, Pasi Autio’s, and Elli Vuorinen’s short films at Filmfest Dresden
Hannaleena Heiska’s Metamorphosis (2022, in featured image), Pasi Autio’s Feel the Heat (2022), and Elli Vuorinen’s Flower Show (2023) will be screened at Filmfest Dresden, held from April 16–21 2024 in Germany. Hannaleena Heiska’s Metamorphosis is included in Short Film… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s Scenic View selected for the short film competition at the 59th International Festival of Science Documentary Films, Olomouc
Maija Blåfield’s Scenic View (2023) was selected for the short film competition of the 59th International Festival of Science Documentary Films, held in Olomouc, Czech Republic, from April 23–28 2024. Finland has the most forest in Europe, but primeval forest… Read more »
Rencontres Internationales Berlin features several AV-arkki’s artists’ works
Jenni Toikka’s Prelude Op. 28 No. 2 (2022, in featured image), Antti Tanttu’s Noli Timere (2022), Jenni Matti Harju’s Ecstasy (2023), and Jussi Eerola’s Grashopper (2023) are screened at Rencontres internationales, taking place April 9–14 2024 in Haus der Kulturen… Read more »
Samira Elagoz’s & Z Walsh’s You Can’t Get What You Want But You Can Get Me selected for Hot Docs
Premiered at IFF Rotterdam earlier this year, Samira Elagoz’s and Z Walsh’s short documentary You Can’t Get What You Want But You Can Get Me was selected for Hot Docs, held from April 25 to May 5 2024 in Toronto,… Read more »
Milja Viita’s, August Joensalo’s, and Jussi Eerola’s short films streaming in THIS IS SHORT platform
Milja Viita’s Delight at Robert St. (2023, in featured image), August Joensalo’s Space Is Quite a Lot of Things (2021), and Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic (2020) are currently streaming in THIS IS SHORT platform. The European streaming platform THIS IS… Read more »
New publication: Artist’s Guide for Festival Distribution
We have published Artist’s Guide for Festival Distribution! The guide includes basic information and advanced insight for artist’s moving image distribution in the film festival circulation – and beyond. The guide advices: The guide was produced with the NextGenerationEU project… Read more »
Ánnámáret’s and Marja Viitahuhta’s collaboration Dreamscapes tours Europe and are presented at Maoriland Film Festival
Dreamscapes, a collaboration between Sámi musician Ánnámáret, visual artist Marja Viitahuhta, and musicians Turkka Inkilä (electronics and shakuhachi flute) and Ilkka Heinonen (Finnish bowed lyre jouhikko), is performed in three concerts across Europe. The first one takes place in March… Read more »