Juha van Ingen’s Web Safe (1999–2000) is included in the online exhibition of digital art by Centre Pompidou. “Sans objet. 9 abstract works made for the web browser” is on view until November 19 2021. The online exhibit groups 9 creations,… Read more »
At the Water's Edges
Rita Jokiranta
New work
At the Water’s Edges is a multichannel video installation about rising seas, the climate change and a big city. The work employs New York City as an example—due to its long and shallow shoreline, the city is very vulnerable to storms and flooding. The structure of the work is episodic and controlled by random... Read more »
The Devils of Paasselkä
Axel Straschnoy
New work
The Devils of Paasselkä is a film about our relationship with the unknown. For more than three hundred years, mysterious lights have appeared floating over a lake sitting on a meteorite crater. Witnesses of the lights share their experiences while two men set out to find them.
Read more »Mika Taanila’s Patent No. 314805 screened at Flatpack Festival, San Francisco Documentary FF, and New Jersey IFF
Mika Taanila’s experimental short film Patent No. 314805 (2020) will be streamed at Flatpack Festival, held online from May 21–31. The film is included in the Optical Sound short film programme, available from May 27. In June, Taanila’s film will… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic screened in Winterthur and Ascona as ISFF Winterthur reaches local cinemas
International Short Film Festival Winterthur, held online in November 2020, is taking its programme to local cinemas in front of the live audience in May and June. Among other shorts in the official competition programmes, Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic is… Read more »
Short films by Niina Suominen, Milja Viita, and Mika Taanila in the competition at Regensburg International Short Film Week
Niina Suominen’s What Time Is? (2020), Milja Viita’s When We Are Nothing Left (2019), and Mika Taanila’s Patent No. 314805 (2020) were selected for the international competition of Regensburg International Short Film Week, held online from May 21 – June… Read more »
Short films by Elina Oikari and Azar Saiyar streamed at International Ethnographic Film Festival of Québec
Short films by Elina Oikari and Azar Saiyar will be streamed in the official selection of International Ethnographic Film Festival Québec (FIFEQ). Elina Oikari’s Govadas (2018) will be streamed in the Québec edition from May 20 – June 6 while… Read more »
might not fit
Tanja Koistila
New work
A diptych of two sculptures moving. One quite self-centered, the other one reaches more outwards. The sound plays an important role.
Read more »Reversals
Pauliina Salminen
New work
A choreography in an urban space shows a person trying to adapt to city structures, looking at cracks in walls and reflections, as if searching for a passage to another space. Her body movements confront the built environment and challenge gravity. Finally, the person and her movements proceed in an underwater environment... Read more »
Sari Nordman’s Assembling at Art in Odd Places, New York
Sari Nordman’s Assembling (2019) is part of the programme at Art in Odd Places, a grassroots art event taking place in New York, from May 13–16. This performative work highlights female-identifying performers. They assemble on the cobblestones of a NYC… Read more »
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic screened at Dreamscapes: A Static Vision Festival in Australia
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic (2020) is screened at Dreamscapes: A Static Vision Festival on May 15 in a joint programme with Moara Passoni’s feature-length film Ecstasy (2020) and Sid Iandovka’s and Anya Tsyrlina’s horizōn (2019). The screening at Pink Flamingo Cinema marks the… Read more »
Superposition 50x02v03
David Muth
New work
The piece "Superposition 50x02v03" is part of a collaboration between Salome Schmuki and David Muth. Black forms are successively drawn on white background. They look like letters; the beginning of a text or a message. Seemingly familiar at first, they cannot be recognised. After a set of forms is complete, the process... Read more »
Half Full
Pinja Valja
New work
Half full deals with the subjectivity of truth by playing with the common saying of a cup being half empty or half full. In one channel of the work, white vases are filling up with black liquid. Simultaneously on the other channel, black vases are filling up with white liquid. The liquids overflow, turning the white vases... Read more »
Failed Emptiness. Time
Mika Taanila
New work
Suddenly there is an enormous amount of time. At first everything is possible. Anything might happen. Gradually the possible becomes impossible.
Read more »Sasha Huber’s solo exhibition in Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam
Sasha Huber’s solo exhibition is open in Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, until August 9. Swiss-Haitian-Finnish artist Sasha Huber uses performance, photography and film, among other media, to investigate colonial residues left in the environment. Her projects conceive of natural spaces—mountains, lakes,… Read more »
Anikó Kuikka’s private exhibition in Fiumano Clase, London
Anikó Kuikka‘s private exhibition Your Dawn Will Come is open in the gallery Fiumano Clase in London until May 22 2021. The exhibition is Kuikka’s exploration of a primordial fear of death, counterbalanced by the hope of rebirth. Visitors will… Read more »
Helena Öst’s A Home in Memory screened at Taiwan International Documentary Festival
Helena Öst’s A Home in Memory will be screened at Taiwan International Documentary Festival, held in Taipei City from April 30 – May 9. Öst’s short documentary film is included in the thematic programme Documemory: Space and Place, curated by… Read more »
Meet the Artist – Dave Berg
Dave Berg (b.1981) graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2013, after which he has made live-action films as well as shorter computer animations. Dark themes, intensity and poetic narration are typical for his art. Berg tells us… Read more »
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen presents Salla Tykkä’s retrospective Profile programme
The 67. International Short Film Festival Oberhausen will be held from May 1–10 online. This year, Finnish media art has a strong presence in different programme sections. Marja Helander’s Shelter (2020) was selected for the new international online competition. The… Read more »
Laila's Apple
Azar Saiyar
New work
Composed of archive footage and interviews, Laila's Apple is a video work about childhood, growing up, learning and rules.
Read more »Compliance
Iona Roisin
New work
Compliance is a poetic examination of how trauma reverberates through the years.
Read more »Atomic by Honkasalo-Niemi-Virtanen in the competition at the new THIS IS SHORT online film festival
Atomic (2020) by Honkasalo-Niemi-Virtanen Collective was selected for the New Point of View competition of THIS IS SHORT online film festival. The film will be streamed from April 25–28. Atomic is a poetic journey, which tells the story of one… Read more »
A Nature Documentary
Joel Karppanen
New work
An essay film about simulated nature, forest animals, nature photographers and national parks, that combines ecocriticism and image critique, archival and modern day footage, natural soundscape and electronic birds.
Read more »My Whimsical Resonance
Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen
New work
A stuttering musician Juuso Sintonen shows how art and playfulness help him not be so afraid of life. During the interview, he performs as a street musician and plays with textile art objects inspired by stuttering.
Read more »Via Karelia
Elian Mikkola
New work
Tracing back a lost identity, hidden in the forests of an abandoned war zone. How does trauma get carried on from a generation to another and is there a way to stop the cycle? The filmmaker tries to understand how to heal from the pressures of the past by searching for their grandmother's childhood home. Taking the journey... Read more »
Magma
Jade Kallio
New work
Magma is a balm for soothing terrestrial aches, a memento of worlds not yet imagined. To exhale is the smallest possible ritual, one that has to do with memory: an old world, a lava lamp, the smell of gas, a suspended bubble; a sacrifice that is the end of all sacrifice. (Anna Tomi)
Read more »Zantedeschia
Anni Kinnunen
New work
The artist spraypaints a flower in a black background, turning invisible to visible.
Read more »Hydrangea
Anni Kinnunen
New work
The artist spraypaints a flower in a black background, turning invisible to visible.
Read more »Feel
Anni Kinnunen
New work
Feel reflects the sense of being an outsider and still trying to blend in. As humans we have this strong need to be part of something and still stand out as an individual. This work was made during a two-month residency in Japan.
Read more »One by One
Anni Kinnunen
New work
A balloon, a positive item and a symbol of light-heartedness and fun turns into something that takes our thoughts on the verge of the distress.
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