The outer limits of a body are porous. We continuously seep into our surroundings and they seep into us. Time is a border, a boundary we lean on to. It bends around us, future seeping into past, past into future. This is an ASMR-video about presence and grooming the surfaces of a human.
Read more »”B”, The Queen of the Galaxies, has saved the Earth in the future only to realise that it will be destroyed before this by its own citizens. She has to stop the negative development of self hatred among people. With her broken english she conducts an intervention.
Read more »Sini Pelkki (b.1978) works with photography and moving image. In her works, landscapes, figures and objects turn into layered narratives that lead to various paths and ambiguous readings. We discussed her inspirations, her style and her working methods. Inspirations and… Read more »
Festival Instants Vidéo has faced some changes due to COVID-19 situation in France and Italy. Some of the programme was cancelled while the exhibition and part of the screening programme were postponed to December and are about to open. The… Read more »
In Café Helsinki, a cow and a fool meet to discuss the power of refusal.
Read more »Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) is screened in the programme “Fireworks” in the Contemporary Art Centre “Typography” in Krasdonar, Russia, on Saturday, December 5. The programme, curated by Dmitry Frolov, was initially part of the Moscow International Experimental Film Festival… Read more »
Haemocyanin is based on a strand of artworks and research on ecological change, consciousness, and mythologies via octopuses. Since 2016, this process has resulted to 12 glass objects made for octopuses. In Haemocyanin, the octopus is seen in interaction with the glass object.
Read more »Dreams and memories merge together at the moment of disappearance. Recurring visions and gestures are drawn into the void within the portrait of a fading self.
Read more »David Muth, along with the Belvedere Museum, has curated a selection of Finnish media art to be screened as part of the Blickle Archive series. The screening will take place on Thursday, December 10 at Belvedere 21, in Vienna, Austria…. Read more »
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic (2020) and Joel Autio’s The Other Night (2019) were selected for the international competition of the Beijing International Short Film Festival. BISFF is held from December 4 – 14. Eerola’s film was also recently shown… Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s Monument of Distance (2018) is included in the screening programme “East from West“, curated by Ingel Vaikla and previously screened during Tallinn Photomonth 2019. The online screening takes place on Wednesday, December 2 at 19:30 and is hosted… Read more »
The outlines of oneself merge into a given space. An image of shifting connections, the rhythm and movement of contemplation. A conversation between one or two. Departing Shadow examines the forming of a connection and its failure. The interaction and attempted dialogue between a space, a performer and a camera.
Read more »The work revisits Hercules’s second labour, which was to kill the multi-headed water serpent Hydra. However, in the artwork, killing is replaced with dancing, and the monster Hydra is not the mythic hydra, but rather the real freshwater polyp Hydra. And cats like water.
Read more »Laura Horelli’s Uutisten aika (Newstime, 2019) is included in the streaming programme “Imagined Community IV – Broadcastig” by etc. galerie, based in Prague, Czech Republic. The programme will be online until December 9. Premiered in Forum Expanded strand of Berlinale… Read more »
Mox Mäkelä’s feature-length audio play movie Strange (2018) will have its Australian premiere at Geelong Underground Film Festival, based in Australia but held online from November 28–29. “The ‘Strange’ will enter a house of the human world, with the trophy… Read more »
Soile Mottisenkangas’ They Go Gentle Into That Night Work (2020) was selected to be screened at Pimedate Ööde Film Festival in Tallinn, Estonia. The film is included in the Ascent of a Woman – Live Action Documentaries 2 -programme, which… Read more »
The Wave is about letting go of the control we try to have over everything and trusting the intuitive feeling which helps us navigate in life. It is about daring to move towards the unseen and personal freedom.
Read more »A short documentary film about people in the Berlin main railway station. People coming and going, appearing and disappearing
Read more »Milja Viita’s When We Are Nothing Left (2019) was selected for the experimental short film competition at Amarcort Film Festival, based in Rimini but held online from November 24 – December 13. When We Are Nothing Left is a minimalist… Read more »