Panu Johansson’s Water Tower Symphony (2023, in featured image) and Milja Viita’s Delight at Robert St. (2023) will be screened at Antimatter Media Art Festival, held from October 20–29 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The screening of Panu Johansson’s Water… Read more »
Jarkko Räsänen’s Altlanti screened in the shorts film competition of Split Film Festival
Jarkko Räsänen’s Altlanti (2023) is screened in the short film competition of the Split Film Festival, held from October 12–21 2023 in Croatia. How would the AI imagine a collective performance in the lost Atlantis? An etude with Stable Diffusion… Read more »
Short films by Maija Blåfield, Pink Twins, Marja Helander, Arttu Nieminen and Milja Viita at Uppsala Short Film Festival
This year’s Uppsala Short Film Festival is held on October 23–29, 2023 in Uppsala, Sweden. The festival features Maija Blåfield’s Scenic View (2023, in featured image) and Pink Twins’ The Transient (2023) in competition, while Marja Helander’s Áfruvvá (Mermaid) (2022),… Read more »
Saara Ekström’s Amnion and Hanna Hovitie’s Square the Circle screened at Flight International Film Festival
Saara Ekström’s Amnion (2023, in featured image) and Hanna Hovitie’s Square the Circle (2023) have been chosen for Flight International Film Festival, taking place October 18–22, 2023 in Genoa, Italy. Amnion is screened in Cinema Gioiello on Friday October 20… Read more »
Pink Twins’ The Transient and Ánnámáret Ensemble & Marja Viitahuhta at Fredrikstad Animation Festival
Pink Twins’ The Transient (2023, in featured image) is screened at Fredrikstad Animation Festival taking place October 19–22, 2023 in Fredrikstad, Norway. The screening titled Abstraction at hoi polloi takes place on Thursday October 19 at 6pm. This year the… Read more »
Present
Sini Pelkki
New work
A Composition of a human figure placed in a challenging position. The impossibility of the image is discharged into movement and sound, into a stream towards a free form: of the performer, camera and image. In the centre of the work is the movement between spaces, dialogue between control and reflex, improvised performance,... Read more »
Guests of Honor
Paula Lehtonen
New work
In this speechless video, a dinner is laid on the table. Arriving guests are creatures that are typically found on the plate. The work aims to present this farm animal as an equal to humans, even though the situation, and the perspective, is human-centred.
Read more »Last Call
Risto-Pekka Blom
New work
The lawnmower, the vacuum cleaner and the tram are using up the last of electricity man has left behind on earth. Man behaving badly has finally been evicted from Earth, which is a good thing for other species.
Read more »Sematectonia
Joonas Hyvönen
New work
Sematectonia is a 3D animation where a character scoring basketball throws behind his back finds himself stuck in a loop in which he, as if cursed, keeps producing the same content over and over again, aware of his situation but unable to stop. As the environment becomes even weirder, the protagonist must confront it as... Read more »
Hovering Over Us
Hanna Kaihlanen
New work
Very small beings are often behind major events on the planet. Hovering over us observes mosquitoes, the tiny creatures that float around us. The hybrid film dives into a reality where the smallest creatures have become unpredictably significant. Past, present and the imaginative overlap and create strange visions, where... Read more »
Homo sapiens
Juhani Koivumäki
New work
Homo sapiens is a short film about a family whose entire life happens in their home. They have no contact with their species partners and live under constant surveillance. The family knows nothing but the prevailing circumstances. Not even the viewer knows who is watching them.
Read more »Game Over
Nina Lassila
New work
In Game Over, a hunter encounters a deer and receives a message. It is a similar story to that of Hubert, who goes out hunting and encounters a deer with a lit-up cross over its horns. After his vision, Hubert gives up hunting and becomes a pious person. Later he would be canonised as Saint Hubert. Stories and legends about... Read more »
Sound Recordings in Kalasatama Helsinki 2023
Marjatta Oja
New work
Sound Recordings in Kalasatama Helsinki 2023 looks at the he environment we are living in and the parameters we are supposed to trust in our every day lives. It looks like there are several contradictions that should be accepted without questions. A question in a home setting arises: How many technology devices are we able... Read more »
Everything Flows...
Ilkka Pitkänen
New work
A video triptych filmed on Örö Island. On the left, a view from a cliff towards the sea. In the middle, the same landscape filmed through the bore of a cannon. On the right, a video of the moving sea surface magnified 100 000 times. A distinctive landscape depiction and a study of perceiving colors.
Read more »Fukushima – The Home That Once Was
Timo Wright
New work
Meet the former residents of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident’s Exclusion Zone, who share their experiences of the loss of home, importance of community, and the fragility of memories. Walk freely in the 3D-captures of former homes and gardens and create your own version of the film.
Read more »Returning to the Island
Paola Fernanda Guzmán Figueroa
New work
Strolling in the streets of Helsinki together with a plastic bag full of water, Paola is trying to find something. She sees something between the water. Finally, she can see what she was looking for: her parents are swimming in the Atlantic Ocean. Through the work, Paola explores topics related to fluidity, migration, and... Read more »
Mommy say something to the camera, mom!
Paola Fernanda Guzmán Figueroa
New work
Paola reconstructs her past and reflects on the reasons why she is away from her homeland and family. She uses archive material showcasing memories including the graduation of her mother, a family journey to Margarita Island in Venezuela in search of a new life, and the birth of a new member in the family.
Read more »5, 50, 100 Years From Now
Anu Pennanen
New work
5, 50, 100 Years from Now looks to the future in an era of resource-based conflict and global environmental crisis. The short essay video is based on Neste gas station customer's reflections on what the future will look like. 5, 50, 100 Years from Now weaves together people's imagination with the associative imagery of the... Read more »
Birth of a Grenade
Shubhangi Singh
New work
For over a hundred years, when the ships belonging to the East India Company brought barrels of saltpetre to the shores of England, they also brought with them a force that determines how we exist in the world today. Saltpetre, also known by its chemical name, Potassium Nitrate (KNO3) was a coveted global commodity that was... Read more »
Appu Jasu’s Drift and Hannaleena Heiska’s Metamorphosis at WNDX Festival
Appu Jasu’s Drift (2022, in featured image) and Hannaleena Heiska’s Metamorphosis (2022) will be screened at WNDX Festival of Moving Image, held in Winnipeg from October 4–8 2023. Both short films are included in the screening Quest: Open Call, screened… Read more »
Saara Ekström’s Amnion awarded as the best experimental film at Blue Danube Film Festival
Saara Ekström’s Amnion (2023) was awarded as the best experimental film at Blue Danube Film Festival, held from September 20 – 30 2023 in Austria, Slovenia and Hungary. The jury states: “Amnion’s strength is its lightness of touch with relation to… Read more »
Niina Suominen’s Golden Headacher screened at Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, Switzerland
Niina Suominen’s Golden Headacher (2022) will be screened at Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, held from October 18–22 2023 in Switzerland. The screening takes place on Thursday, October 19, at 18:30 in Cinématographe, and on Saturday, October 21, at… Read more »
Jenni Toikka’s Prelude Op. 28 No. 2 screened at FestCurtas, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Jenni Toikka’s Prelude Op. 28 No. 2 (2022) will be screened in the parallel section “Another Double” at FestCurtas, held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, from October 13–22 2023. During a single long shot, we see two people taking turns playing… Read more »
Three videos by Marja Helander in Luminocity, Canada
Three videos by Marja Helander, Dolastallat – To Have a Campfire (2016), Eatnanvuloš lottit – Birds in the Earth (2018), and Suodji – Shelter (2020, in featured image) – are included in the outdoors exhibition Luminocity, held in Kamloops, the Province… Read more »
August Joensalo’s, Pasi Autio’s and Johanna Lecklin’s films and videos at Instants Vidéo, Marseille, France
August Joensalo’s Space Is Quite a Lot of Things (2021, in featured image), Pasi Autio’s Feel the Heat (2022), and Johanna Lecklin’s Her Subjects (2022) were selected for the programme of Instants Vidéo Festival, held in Marseille, France, and several… Read more »
Plenty of Finnish artists’ moving image at doclisboa
This year’s doclisboa, taking place October 19–29, 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal, has Finland as a focus country, supported by the Finnish Film Foundation. The Finnish focus includes a retrospective of Markku Lehmuskallio and Anastasia Lapsui and also an extensive pitching… Read more »
AV-arkki presents a special screening at Image Forum Festival, Tokyo
AV-arkki presents a screening titled Dozen Treasures at Image Forum Festival from September 30 – October 6, 2023 in Tokyo, Japan. The screening takes place Tuesday October 3 at 18:30 in Theatre Image Forum. As the name suggests, the screening… Read more »
Two Wars
Jan Ijäs
New work
Two Wars is a work of thought, imagination, presentation and narrative divided across two chapters, World War I and World War II. The first chapter is set in Monte Cassino in Central Italy and the second ten kilometres to the south in the village of San Pietro Infine.
Read more »Azar Saiyar’s, Niina Suominen’s and Ilppo Pohjola’s films at Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris
Azar Saiyar’s My Home (2022, in featured image) and Niina Suominen’s Golden Headacher have been selected to compete in Competition 3 and Competition 5 series of the 25th edition of Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris respectively. Competition… Read more »
Pink Twins’ The Transient selected for Videomedeja, Serbia, and Animatou, Switzerland
Pink Twins’ The Transient (2023) has been selected for Videomedeja Media Projects programme. Videomedeja takes place October 12–14, 2023 in Svilara cultural content factory, Novi Sad. It has also been selected for the Compétition Labo at Animatou Geneva Animation Film… Read more »