Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) was awarded with the Grand Prix in the short film competition of Split Film Festival, held from October 4–12 in Croatia. The Jury states: “A celebration of a fortunate accident – discovery of a nitrate… Read more »
Mika Taanila’s exhibition The End at STUK Arts Center, Leuven
Mika Taanila’s exhibition The End is open at STUK Arts Center, Leuven, until December 16 2018. For his solo exhibition in STUK, the museum selected four works providing an insight into Taanila’s practice. The large triple-screen installation The Most Electrified Town… Read more »
Hotel President
Elina Oikari
New work
Hotel President opens a multifaceted view to a centrally located four-star hotel in Berlin that is currently used to accommodate asylum seekers. The short film includes interviews with asylum seekers, whose thoughts are contrasted with portraits of presidents, prime ministers and other politicians who seem to be giving the... Read more »
Somnivm
Jonna Kina
New work
Relations between anarchism and the marble industry in the quarries of Carrara, in Italy, the chopped mountains, sculpted in time, lost traces of human activity, are present in the seemingly documentary film work. The absence created by the acts of erasing almost all the quarry equipments relating to the contemporary... Read more »
Seeing
Alisa Javits
New work
Seeing speaks about aging and tries to reveal the person under the wrinkled, old skin. It can be hard to see the human behind it, because age is such a strong category. Work is a combination of memories, separate images, flashbacks and the voice-over. It is not a portrait of one person, rather a contemplation on... Read more »
Glitter Dreams
Alisa Javits
New work
Images flowing in the work are like sporadic, recurring mental images with seemingly nothing in common. The work is not about glitter, rather, it is a metaphor. It ponders over trying, daring and things which people choose to have in their lives and to which they can return.
Read more »Gimme Winter and You Can Keep the Rest
Leena Lehti
New work
Experimental film about love, winter, passion, and obsessive proceeding. Animations are scratched directly on 8mm film.
Read more »Distance
Leena Lehti
New work
Experimental film about distance. Originally filmed on BW super8-film. "responsibilities are few: to leave a beauteous trace, / pick a stone from the water" (K. Wallin)
Read more »Eclipse
Kati Roover
New work
Eclipse is a collage-like body of work about different ways of knowing. Scientific and indigenous knowledges side by side. The gap between different knowledges marked by the long history of colonisation. The film material is an anthropology film about Batak dances from Indonesia and Nasa footage about total sun... Read more »
threshold. boundary.
Leena Lehti
New work
"I close my eyes. I breathe the wasteland, asphalt, area plan. The fir-trees I breathe, the years." The lyric video combines poetry and cine film material and discusses identity, memories and the overlapping layers of different eras in a person’s life.
Read more »Risto-Pekka Blom’s Interceptor & Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene compete at Festival de Cine de Madrid
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene (2017) and Risto-Pekka Blom’sInterceptor (2018) were selected in the international competitions of Festival de Cine de Madrid FCM-PNR, held from October 11–23. Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene will be screened in the international short film competitions… Read more »
Antti Tanttu’s Qualia & Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth at Konstanzer kurz.film.spiele
Antti Tanttu’s Qualia (2017) and Marja Helander’s Eatnanvuloš lottit – Birds in the Earth (2018) are screened at Konstanzer kurz.film.spiele, held from October 20–21. Both films will be screened on Saturday, October 20, at 20:10. Antti Tanttu’s blackboard animation Qualia seeks for the essence of… Read more »
Juha van Ingen’s Hello Everybody at the Paris Festival for Different and Experimental cinema
Juha van Ingen’s Hello Everybody (2017) will be screened at the Paris Festival for Different and Experimental cinema, held for the 20th time from October 3–14. The festival is organised by Collectif Jeune Cinéma. The screening of van Ingen’s experimental… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene screened at Festifreak FF, Buenos Aires
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene (2017) will be screened at Festifreak – Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de La Plata, held from October 11–21 in Buenos Aires. Kina’s experimental short film will be screened on Tuesday, October 16, at 23:00. Awarded… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 3 Boom & Risto-Pekka Blom’s Interceptor compete at dokumentART FF
Risto-Pekka Blom’s Interceptor (2018) and Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 3 Boom (2017) were selected for the international competition of dokumentART film festival, held from October 17–21 in Neubrandenburg. Both films are screened on Friday, October 19; Blom’s in the Competition Programme… Read more »
Salla Tykkä’s exhibition Short Titles at Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest, until January 6, 2019
Salla Tykkä’s exhibition Short Titles is open in Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest, from October 6 2018 to January 6 2019. Salla Tykkä began her career in the mid-1990s. Her short films have been shown not only at international exhibitions but also… Read more »
Sami van Ingen’s Flame competes at Riga International Film Festival
Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) was selected for the international short film competition of Riga International Film Festival, held from October 18–31. Flame is included in the Competition Screening 1, screened on Wednesday, October 24, at 18:30 in Kino Bize…. Read more »
Sami van Ingen’s Flame won the Videorama award for the best experimental film at Timishort FF
Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) was awarded with Videorama award for the best experimental film at Timishort Film Festival, held from October 3–7 in Romania. Flame is a fractured melodrama, based on damaged frames from the last minutes of the only… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Saladdin Castique awarded with the special mention by the youth jury at Curtocircuito FF
Anssi Kasitonni’s Saladdin Castique (2018) was awarded with the special mention by the youth jury at Curtocircuíto International Short Film Festival, held from September 29 to October 7 in Santiago de Compostela. Previously, Saladdin Castique was awarded with a Special Mention at the 64th International… Read more »
Ewa Górzna’s, Sami van Ingen’s, Antti Tanttu’s, & Timo Wright’s short films compete at Split FF
Ewa Górzna’s Collapse (2017), Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018), Antti Tanttu’s Qualia (2017), and Timo Wright’s Ex Nihilo (2017) were selected for the short film competition of Split Film Festival, held from October 4–12 in Croatia. Górzna’s and Tanttu’s films… Read more »
Dossier of Tentacular
Tuomas A. Laitinen
New work
Dossier of Tentacular is a knotty and tragicomic organism that explores the techniques behind information production and dissemination, as well as ecological change and issues related to neoliberal language. The visual form of the work is reminiscent of a notebook whose pages become filled with pictures, diagrams and notes.... Read more »
Monument of Distance
Azar Saiyar
New work
Googoosh, a popular and loved iranian-azerbaijani singer, performs a version of the song Ayrılıq – Separation. The performance is from 1970s television show and it has been copied several times from one videotape to another. Ayrılıq could be a love song but it is told that composer Ali Salimi (who had migrated... Read more »
I Am Neuter
Nina Lassila
New work
Neutrum is a latin adjective meaning neither masculine or feminine. In this video we see a person talking to the camera in French. It is obvious that French is not her native language. She talks about the difficulties one faces being a stranger, the other. It is important to learn languages but is it possible to integrate... Read more »
Lichen at Allinge
Annette Arlander
New work
In the first part a human figure stands variously positioned on the shore among the rocks covered with yellow lichen, in the second part the rocks with the lichen standing on their own.The first part (on the left) was recorded on the evening of March 26 2016 and the second part (on the right) on the evening of March 27 2016... Read more »
Mirror
Marjo Viitala
New work
Longing for love and acceptance gets us to pursue the company of others. However, we tend to let some people closer than others. The same principles and rules do not apply to everyone.
Read more »Laura Horelli’s Namibia Today Awarded with a honorary mention at CineMigrante, Buenos Aires
Laura Horelli’s Namibia Today (2018) was awarded with a honorary mention “Mención CineMigrante” in the competitive Panorama Selection of CineMigrante, held in Buenos Aires from September 18–26. The CineMigrante Film Festival proposes describing the current problems that intercultural movements entail, tackling the… Read more »
Jukka Silokunnas’s Vanishing Point competes at Milano Film Festival
Jukka Silokunnas’s Vanishing Point (2017) was selected for the international short film competiton of Milano Film Festival, held from September 28 to October 7. Silokunnas’s film will be screened on Tuesday, October 2, at 19:30 and on Friday, October 5,… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Saladdin Castique in the international competition of Curtocircuíto ISFF
Anssi Kasitonni’s Saladdin Castique (2018) was selected in the international competition of Curtocircuíto International Short Film Festival, held from September 29 to October 7 in Santiago de Compostela. Saladdin Castique is included in the Radar selection, screened on Friday, October… Read more »
Marja Helander’s Eatnanvuloš Lottit – Birds in the Earth at Choreoscope Festival, Barcelona
Marja Helander’s Eatnanvuloš Lottit – Birds in the Earth (2018) will be screened at Choreoscope International Dance Film Festival, held in Barcelona from October 9–14. The film will be screened on Saturday, October 13, at 19:00. Birds in the Earth is… Read more »
Hannaleena Hauru’s and Sami van Ingen’s short films in the Videorama Competition of Timishort FF
Hannaleena Hauru’s The Ice Hockey Film by Heidi (2017) and Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) were selected for the Videorama Competition of Timishort Film Festival, held in Romania from October 3–7. Videorama focuses on cinematographic creations that stretch the audio-visual language… Read more »