Fleeting moments pass behind the dirty window of a train– short stops at stations, passengers leaving the train, others waiting for other trains on other platforms. People who shared some moments on the same train, disappear and remain as strangers, unknown even though they would be there everyday.
Read more »Carolin Koss’s Copper Mountains (2019) had its Czech Premiere at One World International Human Rights Film Festival, held in early March. The first two screenings of Copper Mountains took place on March 7 and 8, but the third screening, scheduled… Read more »
Sasha Huber’s Karakia – The Resetting Ceremony (2015) was included in the Into the Open moving image programme included in the New Zealand Festival of the Arts. The programme took place from March 2–8 . In Karakia – The Resetting… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s documentary film The Fantastic (2020) will have its international premiere in the short and mid-length film competition at Visions du Réel International Film Festival, held from April 24 to May 2 in Nyon, Switzerland. The Fantastic was awarded… Read more »
Mika Taanila’s Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow (1998) will be screened at Arkitekturfilm Oslo 2020 event in Norway. The screening of Futuro takes place on Sunday 15 March 2020 at 13:00 at ROM, followed by a talk on The Futuro House… Read more »
Mox Mäkelä’s new video Strange – Art is on view on Vdrome until March 8, introduced by poet Jöns Carlson. Strange – Art is a version of the audiovisual play Strange, the story of The Stranger, an androgynous (or what?) character who travels… Read more »
The 50th Tampere Film Festival is held between March 4 and 8. The oldest and largest short film festival in the Nordic countries is AV-arkki’s main associate in Finland. A total of 12 works by AV-arkki’s artists were selected for the… Read more »
Running in three parallel images in black & white and colour, and complemented with an evocative soundtrack, Biblion is a poetic study on the medium of the book. A nocturnal mood leads way to a dreamlike world, where no reading is required and where books are dreaming of their own disappearance.
Read more »What is left unsaid is a study on people’s inner speech and messages that do not get through the way we want them to.
Read more »Sini Pelkki’s Sheet no4 (2018) will be screened at Rencontres Internationales Paris, held from Feburary 25 to March 1. Sheet no4 is included in the screening “Protocol”. The screening takes place on Wednesday 26 at 18:00 in Grand Palais Auditorium…. Read more »
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth (2018) is screened at International Fantastic Film Festival Même pas peur, held in Réunion from February 19–22. Helander’s film is included in the short film screening that takes place on Saturday, February 22 at… Read more »
Minispectacles is a series of one-minute films, cinematic haikus. Minispectacles 45-47/100 are making the rounds with the sounds in Hungary and Switzerland. All the way to the 100min feature film. Woman with pocket camera.
Read more »Saara Ekström’s Body All Eyes (2018) was awarded as the Best Experimental Film at Melbourne Short Film Festival, held in February 10 2020 in Australia. Body All Eyes is a requiem for barren skies in which archaic myths of flying… Read more »
The romantic landscape paintings often portrayed weather condition, topography of national landscape, religious themes, spirituality of nature and hunting scenes. Blue Honda Civic is a minimalistic road movie mirroring the emotions of the driver through the landscapes (s)he has chosen to look at.
Read more »A camp is a place where mohajers live in a state of waiting. Mohajers are asylum seekers, refugees, and other migrants in precarious situations. Their camps are reception centers, detention centers, and temporary shelters, or in other words: facilities for storing humans.
Read more »Fill the Screen shows us the nucleus of Myllymäki's movie perception. "Movie art is a glamorous hybrid of visual arts and sound art. Movie art is not a repetition of established practices, but the search for unused possibilities."
Read more »Mox Mäkelä’s audio play film Strange (2018) was awarded as the Best Experimental Feature Film at Caribbean Sea International Film Festival, held from January 23–25 in Venezuela. “The ‘Strange’ will enter a house of the human world, with the trophy… Read more »
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth (2018) will be screened in short film and cultural showcases in Glasgow and London on Friday, January 31. Both events are organised or co-organised by the Finnish Institute in the UK. The screening in… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene (2017, in featured image) and Gunzi Holmström’s Aura Kanerva Merivuokko (2020) are included in the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition, open from February 2 to March 8 in Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen. Gunzi Holmström’s Aura Kanerva Merivuokko… Read more »
Inversia Festival will present a showcase of short films by the artists of Magneetti Northern Media Culture Association. The festival is held from February 6–8 in Murmansk, Russia. The screening, curated by Panu Johansson, takes place on Friday, February 7,… Read more »
Mox Mäkelä’s feature-length audio play film Strange (2018) will be screened at Caribbean Sea International Film Festival, held from January 23–25 in Venezuela. “The ‘Strange’ will enter a house of the human world, with the trophy hall and tableware supported… Read more »
Saara Ekström’s Body All Eyes (2018) will be screened at RPM Fest, Boston, held from January 32 to February 2. Body All Eyes is included in the screening “Mytologies”, taking place on Sunday, February 2, at 14:00. Body All Eyes… Read more »