Saara Ekströmin teos Unconsuming Flame (2004) esitetään Nuoren Voiman Liiton pyhiinvaellusteemaisella Nuori/Voima-klubilla perjantaina 17.5.2019 Korjaamolla. Videossa Unconsuming Flame kuvattu halkaistu liekehtivä omena on kuin Danten kiirastulen kuudennen piirin lumotun puun hedelmä. Ylösalaisin kasvavan puun ihanilta tuoksuvista paratiisin hedelmistä on katumuksentekijän… Read more »
Laura Horelli’s Uutisten aika in the Shorts Competition of DocAviv
Laura Horelli’s Uutisten aika (“Newstime”, 2019) will be screened in the Shorts Competition of Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival, DocAviv, held from May 23 to June 1. The screenings of Uutisten aika take place on Saturday, May 25, at… Read more »
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth screened in Krakow, Prague, and São Paulo
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth (2018) continues its world tour. On Wednesday, May 15, it will be screened both at Dance Moments 19, Krakow, Poland (curated by Christiane Hartter from Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln), and at Dance Film Festival Prague,… Read more »
World Festival Premiere of Saara Ekström’s Body All Eyes at Sheffield Doc/Fest
Saara Ekström’s Body All Eyes (2018) will have its World Festival Premiere in the Official Selection of Sheffield Doc/Fest, held from June 6–11 in the UK. Doc/Fest is the UK’s biggest documentary festival and the third largest in the world. The screening of… Read more »
Homage for women’s work in three acts (4 hours, 30 minutes and 4 hours)
Hinni Huttunen
New work
According to a survey carried out by Statistics Finland in 2018, the most common profession for women in Finland in 2016 was in the industry of human health and social work activities. The average duration for a workday for a person working within this industry is 8 hours with a separate break. The video performance Homage... Read more »
Video of a fat person not eating in it
Hinni Huttunen
New work
In contrast to all the other representations of fat people, this is a video of a fat person not eating in it. The setting of the scene reflects the setup of a talk show stage. The fat person is sitting still and looking at the camera.
Read more »Interweave
Anne Siirtola
New work
Interweave is a video work where elderly people from Greenwich Village, New York share unforgettable memories and stories from their past. They encompass survival, immigration, miracles - and a story about secret atomic city. Those valuable invidual stories get lost very easily and with them, we lose a piece of our common... Read more »
Sound Esthautomatism
Clément Beraud
New work
Warning: This video may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised. The film is the implosion by the rhythm or the ciné-prose of the 21st century. Venom for eternity. “Esthautomatism” is a word taken from the lettrist movement that wanted to... Read more »
Trees 2.0
Clément Beraud
New work
Everything disappears, one way or another. Will our environmental amnesia lead us to replace nature completely with digital reality? This film is part of a wider project "Stratum", which combines photography and video installation. The film has been made during the AARK A.I.R program in Korpo, Finland.
Read more »Jan Ijäs’s and Elli Vuorinen’s short films compete at Leiden International Short Film Experience
Jan Ijäs’s On the Art of the Set Design (2018) and Elli Vuorinen’s Still Lives (2019) were selected among the seven short films in the Competition General Award at Leiden International Short Film Experience (LISFE), held from May 9–12 in… Read more »
Strange Snow Falling
Markus Viljanen
New work
Strange snow falling in the artist’s backyard.
Read more »Trees in Victoria (Lorne)
Annette Arlander
New work
In July 2016 I stand with old fir trees for a camera on tripod in a town called Lorne in Victoria, Southern Australia. The close-up to the left is of the same tree I stand next to on the right.
Read more »Trees in Victoria (Apollo Bay)
Annette Arlander
New work
In July 2016, I stand with old fir trees for a camera on tripod in a town called Apollo Bay in Victoria, Southern Australia. The close-up to the left is of the same tree I stand next to on the right.
Read more »In the Minds of Others 1: Parallel Days
Rita Jokiranta
New work
The video is an independent part of the multichannel video installation In the Minds of Others. It deals with questions of the incongruence of time and events. It also reflects the thought that all that happens may be paralleled, coincidental and layered, and without any connection to other events.
Read more »Standardized Synchronized
Kaisu Koski
New work
Standardized patients (SPs) work with medical students to help them practice clinical and interpersonal skills. This documentary depicts the work of the SPs in a simulation clinic, as they are being trained for various medical scenarios and perform synchronized encounters with medical students. The filmmaker also undergoes... Read more »
Meet the Artist: Martta Tuomaala
Martta Tuomaala (born in 1983) is a media artist based in Helsinki. Tuomaala graduated from Aalto University School of Art and Design in 2014, and her body of work includes mostly installations and short films. Her initial plan, however, was… Read more »
AV-arkki presents its recent acquisitions at ISFF Oberhausen – Four Finnish shorts in the competition
Anssi Kasitonni’s Sakke (2018), Johanna Lecklin’s Not Just a Matter of Passion (2019), Azar Saiyar’s Monument of Distance (2018), and Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker (2019) were selected for the international competition of the 65th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, held from May 1–6…. Read more »
Kuvan kevät Kansallismuseossa: Artor Jesus Inkerö, Pilvi Takala, Azar Saiyar
Mariliis Rebane on kuratoinut kuvataiteilijoiden Artor Jesus Inkerön, Azar Saiyarin ja Pilvi Takalan videoteoksista koostuvan näyttelyn, joka asettautuu toukokuussa Kansallismuseon tornin kolmeen eri kerrokseen osana Kuvan Kevät 2019 -maisterinäyttelyä. Näyttelyyn on vapaa pääsy, mutta jonotuksen välttämiseksi näyttelyyn tulee ilmoittautua etukäteen. Kulttuurihistoriallisissa museoissa… Read more »
Mika Taanilan The World nähdään Espoo Cinéssä Nicholas Roegin elokuvan The Man Who Fell to Earth parina
Mika Taanilan kokeellinen lyhytelokuva The World (2017) nähdään Espoo Cinéssä Nicholas Roegin elokuvan The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) yhteydessä. Espoo Ciné järjestetään 6.–12.5. Roegin ja Taanilan teosten yhteisnäytös nähdään lauantaina 11.5. klo 16:45 Louhisalissa. “Viime vuosikymmeninä ansaittuun kulttimaineeseen… Read more »
Fruits of the Loom by Jaakko Pallasvuo, Antti Jussila & Jari Kallio awarded at EMAF
Jaakko Pallasvuo’s, Antti Jussila’s & Jari Kallio’s Fruits of the Loom (2019) shared the main prize of EMAF with Dora García’s Segunda Vez / Second Time Around (2018). The 32nd European Media Art Festival (EMAF), held in Osnabrück from April 24–28. Jaakko Pallasvuo received… Read more »
Elli Vuorinen’s, Sami van Ingen’s, and Jonna Kina’s short films in the competition of Flatpack Festival, UK
Elli Vuorinen is this year’s invited filmmaker for Flatpack Festival‘s Dots & Loops screening. She presents her own films with a selection of shorts that have been important to her. In addition to Vuorinen’s Still Lives (2019), the competition selection of… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s SOMNIVM in the competition of Trento Film Festival
Jonna Kina’s Somnivm (2018) will have its Italian premiere in the competition of Trento Film Festival, held from April 27 to May 5 in Italy. Founded in 1952, Trento Film Festival is the oldest international film festival dedicated to the mountains, adventure and exploration…. Read more »
Sasha Huber’s KARAKIA – The Resetting Ceremony screened at Tate St. Ives
Sasha Huber’s KARAKIA – The Resetting Ceremony (2015) will be screened at Tate St. Ives on Friday, April 26 in a short film screening included in the symposium Global Communities: Curating Modern Art Today. After the screening, Katya García-Antón gives a… Read more »
Emilia Ukkosen Journey Back in Time Forum Boxin Mediaboxissa 26.4.–19.5.
Emilia Ukkosen Journey Back in Time (2019) on esillä Forum Boxin Mediaboxissa 26.4.–19.5. Menneiden elämien regressioterapia perustuu uskoon jälleensyntymisestä ja ideaan, että ihmiset voivat käsitellä emotionaalisia ja psykologisia ongelmiaan hypnoosin avulla saadakseen yhteyden menneiden elämien kokemuksiin ja traumoihin. Uskotaan, että… Read more »
Video art by Sini Pelkki, Tuomas A. Laitinen, and Jaakko Pallasvuo, Antti Jussila & Jari Kallio at EMAF
Video art by Sini Pelkki, Tuomas A. Laitinen, and Jaakko Pallasvuo, Antti Jussila & Jari Kallio will be screened at the 32nd European Media Art Festival (EMAF), held in Osnabrück from April 24–28. Pelkki’s Sheet no4 (2018) and Pallasvuo’s, Jussila’s… Read more »
International premiere of Maarit Suomi-Väänänen’s Minispectacles Squatting at Experiments in Cinema, US
Maarit Suomi-Väänänen’s Minispectacles Squatting will have its international premiere at Experiments in Cinema, held from April 16–20 in Albuquerque, U.S. The screening of Minispectacles Squatting takes place on Thursday, April 18, at 19:15. Minispectacles Squatting portrays living at the squat… Read more »
Alienation
Ilkka Pitkänen
New work
A video performance on alienation.
Read more »Newstime
Laura Horelli
New work
"Newstime" is a found footage film which discusses cultural differences, being an outsider, the Namibian independence struggle, and Finland’s long-term ties with the southern African country. Ellen Namhila recites her autobiography "The Price of Freedom". Namhila spent seven years in Tampere in the 1980s as a... Read more »
EN GARDE
Reija Meriläinen
New work
Two fencers stand in their “en garde” positions, on guard, ready for the call to strike that never comes. The tension builds until one of them makes a move. At the moment of impact, the blade plunges into a pool of clear liquid that instantaneously freezes over from the hit, spreading out evenly from the impact... Read more »
Illusory Curtains
Arja Kärkkäinen
New work
Illusory Curtains is a 3-channel video installation that deals with the breakdown of reality under pressure. The hectic life of the characters sneaks into the nights, into the only moments of rest; sleep, which eventually becomes an obligation among all. Sleep and resting has to be performed because it is part of the normal... Read more »