Azar Saiyar’s Laila’s Apple (2021) will be screened at 20minmax International Short Film Festival Ingolstadt, held from November 18–25 2022 in Germany. Laila’s Apple will be screened in the programme “Touching Moments” on Saturday, November 19, at 20:00 and on… Read more »
Risto-Pekka Blom’s The Human Torch and Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur selected for Black Nights Film Festival Tallinn and Interfilm Short Film Festival Berlin
Risto-Pekka Blom’s The Human Torch (2022, in featured image) and Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur (2022) were selected for the short film competitions of Black Nights Film Festival, held in Tallinn, Estonia, from November 11–27 2022. Both films will also be… Read more »
Ánnámáret’s and Marja Viitahuhta’s collaboration in Mundial Montréal
Ánnámáret is one of the selected official showcase artists in Mundial Montréal, a world music event taking place in Canada from November 15–18 2022. In Ánnámáret’s audiovisual concept Nieguid Duovdagat, Ánnámáret’s music and Marja Viitahuhta’s video art gain influence from… Read more »
Anni Puolakka’s, Jenni Toikka’s, and Noora Geagea’s videos at Instants Vidéo
Anni Puolakka’s From the Heart (2021, in featured image), Jenni Toikka’s Prelude Op. 28 No. 2 (2022) and Noora Geagea’s Life Goals (2020) are included in the programme of Instants Vidéo, held in Marseille, France, and Milan, Italy, from November… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s and Pilvi Takala’s videos included in the e-flux screening programme “Takeover”
Jonna Kina’s Secret Words and Related Stories (2016, in featured image) and Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker (2017) are included in the screening programme “Takeover“, streamed in e-flux during the fall 2022 and curated by Julian Ross. The programme explores the… Read more »
I Call Them Glowsuckers
Minna-Kaisa Kallinen
New work
I Call Them Glowsuckers lets the viewer experience the extraordinary encounter of a swimmer and an unknown sea creature. At first the swimmer is horrified, but soon also enchanted by her discovery. In a short period of time the creatures take over her daily life, as her endless curiosity brings her ever deeper into their... Read more »
Holy Dolls
Maippi Ketola
New work
Holy Dolls in a grand meeting of the nations. All the dolls collected by my grandparents from 1963 to 2012 are invited.
Read more »Swan Song
Maippi Ketola
New work
A dancer built from plastic trash, a lonely swan, dances Le Cygne (Swan) part of Camille Saint-Saëns' Carnival of Animals, choreographed by Michel Fokine for Anna Pavlova in 1905, on the calm water surface littered with plastic trash.
Read more »White House
Maippi Ketola
New work
We are standing right in front of the End, led by the greedy, ridiculous and cruel. Soon it will all stop. Everything we build turns into the dust under the burning Sun or will be wiped into the sea and there will be no one to remember.
Read more »Colombia
Maippi Ketola
New work
Small stories on insects, monsters, fruits, ghosts, saints, leaders and the led together loosely form a greater story attached to the history of Colombia. The animation is made in Campos de Gutiérres, Medellín, in summer of 2014.
Read more »Everyday Vrealities
Timo Wright
New work
Everyday Vrealities is an “open world” -type free movement virtual reality documentary about different kinds of homes, families and lifestyles. You can walk freely through the 3D-scanned homes and see the on-location volumetrically captured everyday moments.
Read more »Delight at Robert St.
Milja Viita
New work
Buddy, an old stray cat in Toronto, had managed to conquer a small territory of his own in the city center. The filmmaker met Buddy’s gaze every time she went out. She befriended her neighbor and captured his last autumn with her old 35mm hand cranked movie camera. Delight at Robert St. is a visual poem about the... Read more »
Equilibrium
Petteri Cederberg
New work
Equilibrium is achieved when opposing forces or influences are balanced. Regardless of inner or outer chaos and imbalance, the totality will end up in a balanced state. This comforting idea is the motive of this animation.
Read more »Legacy
Timo Bredenberg
New work
A photogrammetry-based animation documents the demolition of a former state office building. In addition to the architectural legacy, the title of the work refers to a term used in programming, used for outdated code.
Read more »Noli Timere
Antti Tanttu
New work
Noli Timere is a work about the experience and emotion of fear or anxiety. What is common or private in those feelings and what do they have in common? The work contemplates on the collective fear and its elements.
Read more »Leena Lehti’s Taiga screened at Arctic Shorts Film Evening hosted by BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels
Leena Lehti’s Taiga was screened in the Arctic Shorts film evening in BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, on Tuesday, November 8 2022. The annual Arctic Shorts Film Evening is an official side event of the Arctic Futures Symposium which… Read more »
Meet the Artist – Pekka Sassi
Pekka Sassi has combined live music with video art, attempted to write a novel that became a short film, and found inspiration from outer space and forgotten stories of the Bible. We meet with Pekka Sassi and he explains how… Read more »
Video works from Juha van Ingen screened at Centre Pompidou, Paris on November 9
Videos by Juha van Ingen’s are shown at Centre Pompidou in Paris, France. The event “As long as possible” takes place on November 9 2022 at 7-9 PM in Cinéma 2. The screened works include (Dis)integrator (1992), Ghost Rider (2012),… Read more »
New Bugs by Miia Rinne screened at Kasseler DokFest
Miia Rinne’s short film New Bugs (2022) has been selected for Kasseler DokFest in Germany. Kasseler DokFest is held on November 15-20 2022 on site and online. New Bugs is part of “Simulamatter” screening which is held on Satuday, November… Read more »
Short films by Anssi Kasitonni and Mika Taanila screened at Winterthur International Short Film Festival in Switzerland
Le Saboteur (2022) by Anssi Kasitonni and Six Day Run (2013, featured image) are part of International Short Film Festival Winterthur this year. The festival is held in Winterthur, Switzerland from November 8-13 2022. Taanila’s short film is included in… Read more »
Lauri Astala’s Sketch for the Last Map awarded for the Best Video Art at Flight Film Festival, Genova
Lauri Astala’s Sketch for the Last Map (2022, in featured image) was awarded for the Best Video Art at Flight Film Festival, held in Genova, Italy, from October 28 – November 1 2022. The jury gave the award “for making the… Read more »
Birds in the Earth by Marja Helander screened at Brest Short Film Festival
Marja Helander’s short film Birds in the Earth (2018) will be screened at Brest Short Film Festival held on November 8-13 in Brest, France. Helander’s short film is part of “Opening night” program, taking place on Tuesday November 8 at… Read more »
Short films by Mia Mäkelä and Anssi Kasitonni screened at Alcine Film Festival, Spain
Anthropobee (2022) (featured image) by Mia Mäkelä and Le Saboteur (2022) by Anssi Kasitonni are part of Alcine Film Festival. The festival is held on November 4-11 2022 in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain. Both of the short films will… Read more »
Finnish short films on display at Nordic Film Days, Lübeck on November 2-6
Nordic Film Days Lübeck is held on November 2-6 2022. Festival program includes short films by many Finnish artist such as Helka Heinonen, Anssi Kasitonni, Jenni Toikka, Risto-Pekka Blom, August Joensalo and Marja Helander. The festival is held in Lübeck,… Read more »
The Transient
Pink Twins
New work
What is The Transient? It is that fleeting moment when you question what you are seeing, when uncanny valley takes over and when harmonious wildlife is revealed as a monstrous result of cloning and obsessive manipulation of nature. Or the moment when you ignore the lure of the real and give in to the overwhelming beauty of... Read more »
7 P.M. on a Sunday
Sevgi Emel Eker
New work
The point of no return. Laura's life falls apart when she hears that her 14-year-old daughter Ida is suspected of a serious crime.
Read more »Short films by Risto-Pekka Blom, Flis Holland, Anssi Kasitonni, and Leena Pukki at Uppsala International Short Film Festival
Uppsala International Short Film Festival was held from October 24–30 2022 in Sweden. Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur (2022) and Risto-Pekka Blom’s The Human Torch (2022) were selected for the international competition, while Flis Holland’s Subserotic Bulge (2021) and Leena Pukki’s… Read more »
Mika Taanila’s and Seppo Renvall’s short films at Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Mika Taanila’s Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow (1998, in featured image) and Seppo Renvall’s Parting (2022) were screened at Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, held from October 24–29 2022 in Czech Republic. Seppo Renvall’s Parting was selected for… Read more »
Man Made
Elian Mikkola
New work
Man Made, a repurposed narrative of a boy who gets introduced to the wonders of life by a beautiful shining trumpet. But the struggle to be oneself has only begun. Utilizing found 16mm footage and both digital and analog manipulation techniques, the filmmaker pierces conventional masculinity with a transformative queer... Read more »
Metamorphosis
Hannaleena Heiska
New work
What happens when the audience and staff have left and the art begins to live its own life? The work suggests indulging in a viewing experience and surrendering to the introduction of non-verbal narration. Metamorphosis is an experimental short film shot on 16mm black and white film that combines painting and contemporary... Read more »