Elina Saloranta‘s film A Letter from Elli (2019) is part of DINAMO’s short film screening programme Exposure/Obscurity at the upcoming International Film Festival Rotterdam. The video is based on a letter written by the Finnish singer Elli Forssell-Rozentāle in August… Read more »
Marja Viitahuhta & Ánnámáret‘s Vuoiŋŋat (Spirits) (featured image) won the Best Nordic Art Film award and Elli Vuorinen‘s Flower Show the Best Nordic Animation at the Minimalen Short Film Festival. The festival took place January 13–18, 2026 in Trondheim, Norway…. Read more »
A story of the grief surrounding a mother’s death, memories of loss, and the joy of summer cabin life, drawn from 8 mm home movies filmed by three generations.
Read more »A drone ponders on the meaning of existence.
Read more »The work is a documentation of my imagination. I reflect on the legacy left to me and my relationship with it. Daddy’s little princess works the woodpiles continuously. Even though wood is hauled into the woodshed every summer, all summer long, the amount of wood remains the same.
Read more »Handmade 35mm and 16mm film transform subtle plant impressions into expansive projections. The work opens a contemplative environment in which microscopic gestures unfold into immersive spaces, allowing varied sensorial encounters with time, impermanence, and nature’s quiet resilience.
Read more »In the Nordic winter, sunlight is fleeting and intensely warm; in its absence, the world sinks into the coldest shades of blue. This work is hand-engraved in the dark with logographic characters onto 16mm film. The film unfolds as a visual poem, where the marks resonate with the movement of light and color.
Read more »An experimental short film following a fictional journey of granite beyond our time, exploring how challenges facing human societies might be viewed differently through nonhuman, inanimate perspectives.
Read more »In 18 minutes, a solitary creator weaves together introspective landscapes, vintage devices, and haunting memories. In Finnish lakeside scenery near the Russian border, broken VCRs flicker with melancholic sci-fi. Nature silently observes as fragmented memories intertwine, forming an inner space of reflection.
Read more »A hand-drawn history of the universe from the perspective of a solitary person living in a small one-room apartment, spending their birthday going through old slide images from films.
Read more Ȯther is an installation composed of four poetic video fragments, exploring states of physical and psychological recovery, inner experience, and affective memory. Rather than linear interpretation, the installation invites lingering as before a living painting: to look, feel, remember.
Read more »The work depicts a performance with the ash tree growing on the rock near the Eckerö post office landing site. It is part of a series of performances for camera with the tree that took place in July 2021.
Read more »The work depicts a daily performance with the apple tree growing in front of Eckerö Mail & Customs house in July 2021.
Read more »The work depicts a day and night with a mountain birch The performance took place every two hours from June 6 at 3:45 pm to June 7 at 3:45 pm on the shore of Lake Kilpis in 2021.
Read more »Azar Saiyar‘s My Home (2022) is part of LABOCINE‘s January 2026 issue Archives. The issue presents films that reshape memory and revive what already exists—images found, recorded, preserved, or reimagined. “A bee stung me on my finger. It happened yesterday… Read more »
Niina Suominen‘s Smoking Spot (featured image), Jukka Silokunnas‘ D/Composition and Sanna Liljander‘s When Will The Day Break will are selected for the 39th Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media, taking place from January 14–21, 2026 in Stuttgart, Germany. Smoking… Read more »
Pilvi Takala‘s Feeling Defensive (Part 1) (featured image), Heidi Piiroinen‘s I am a River and Matti Harju‘s Nox will be screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), held from January 29–February 8, 2026 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. I am a… Read more »
Timo Bredenberg‘s You Saw Nothing (featured image), Risto-Pekka Blom‘s Invasive Species, Marja Viitahuhta & Ánnámáret‘s Vuoiŋŋat (Spirits), Juha van Ingen‘s Monumental, Marja Helander &Liselotte Wajstedt‘s In My Hand and Elli Vuorinen‘s Flower Show will compete in the Nordic Competition at… Read more »
Taija Goldblatt’s installation Ocean’s Skeleton is part of the exhibition Raging Vigil at Les Instants Vidéo 2025, in Marseille France. The exhibition runs through January 11th, 2026 at La Friche la Belle de Mai. Ocean’s Skeleton (2024) is an animation… Read more »