Love letter is a series of one minute video performances speculating the difficulty in admitting or expressing ones affection towards the other. In relationships love is often confessed but seldom asked for: "would you love me?". On the other hand, Love letter 0 does not specify if its message is a request or command.
Read more »A woman is hiding under the cover. Later on, it appears that she's being chased by the room and she's trying to get out of its sight. She manages to escape for a short run but eventually the room reaches the stray and surrounds her to protect or to prison her.
Read more »A fragmented collage reassembles a life lost. A radiant yet fractured narrative replete with lacunae found in history and time, refracted through the half light of memory and film.
Read more »Exact words from artist interviews are mouthed by other professionals.
Read more »14 people meditated eyes open in the studio conditions for 20 minutes. The director chose a specific excerpt from each meditation. The documentary short film “The presence” depicts meditation as an experience that unites people extending the unity into the viewers. Meditation can also be meditated.
Read more »In a near future, inside a virtual fragmented landscape, artificial intelligence is trying to interpret events that led to the abandonment of network capitalism. Without Friction is speculative fiction built around different polarities and tensions found in the network capitalism.
Read more »KUTSU AV-ARKKI RY:N JÄSENILLE Tervetuloa AV-arkki ry:n kevätkokoukseen! Paikka: AV-arkin toimisto, Tallbeginkatu 1/76, 00180 Helsinki Kaapelitehdas, C-rappu, 4-kerros Aika:Torstai 25.4.2019 klo 17.00 Kokouksessa käsiteltävät AV-arkki ry:n sääntöjen mukaiset asiat: ESITYSLISTA 1. Kokouksen avaus 2. Valitaan kokouksen puheenjohtaja, sihteeri, kaksi pöytäkirjantarkastajaa ja kaksi… Read more »
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth (Eatnanvuloš Lottit – Maan sisällä linnut, 2018) will be screened at Florida Film Festival and at Festival of Tolerance, Zagreb. Focused on independent cinema, the 28th Florida Film Festival is held from April 12–21…. Read more »
Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) is included in the programme of Festival Format Court, held in Paris from April 3–7. Flame will be screened on Friday, April 5, at 18:00 in Les Ursulines. Flame is included in the screening “En… Read more »
Mox Mäkelä’s feature-length audio play film Strange (2018) will have its UK premiere at TATE Modern, London, on Wednesday, May 15, at 18:30 with discussion with Mox Mäkelä and Tate Film curators. Midway between a film and an audio play,… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s and Sami van Ingen’s films were awarded at Ann Arbor Film Festival, held from March 26–31 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This year’s jury consisted of Bryan Konefsky, Akosua Adoma Owusu, and Stacey Steers. Maija Blåfield’s On Destruction and Preservation… Read more »
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth (2018) and Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker (2019) will be screened in the European Competition of Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, held from April 3–7 in Netherlands. Go Short is the main festival for short film in the Netherlands. Marja… Read more »
Liisa Lounila’s Niagara (2009) is screened at Festival Histoire et Cité, held in Genève from March 28–30. Niagara is included in the video art screening “Waterproof“, including e.g. videos by Bill Viola and Jean Painlevé. The screenings take place on… Read more »
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth is included in the Native Cinema Showcase at the Smithsonian National Museum of American Indian, New York. The Showcase takes place from March 29–31. Helander’s short film is included in the screening “The Land Speaks“,… Read more »
On a winter’s night a traveller arrives in Venice. In the morning, a gondola takes her to Murano. The boat passes by the cemetery island of San Michele. About her grandfather, the glassblowers said: “Era un vero muranese.”
Read more »After the original script by Mieko Shiomi, 1963.
Read more »After Geoffrey and Bici Hendricks, Fly a sky kite, from Friday Book of White Noise, 1963–1965
After John Baldessari, Running Past Camera – Running Toward Camera, 1971
Read more »National Landscape is a short film and musical improvisation against alt-right cultural appropriation. A cry of a flute cuts through the disintegrating landscapes. The admiration of Carelian hill scenery takes a disturbing turn, as once common national symbols are hijacked by fascists.
Read more »Elli Vuorinen’s new animation Still Lives (2019) starts its festival life at four film festivals. It will premiere in the experimental competition of the International Animation Short Film Festival Roanne, held from March 18–24 in France. The screening takes place… Read more »
Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) will be screened in the competitive Offical Short Film Selection of 19th International Film Festival Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, held from March 22–29. Flame is included in the competition programme 3 “Art Devices“, screened… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Saladdin Castique (2018) will be screened at BUFF International Film Festival, held from March 23–29 in Malmö, Sweden. The festival focuses on children and young audiences. Saladdin Castique will be screened on Wednesday, March 27, at 19:15 in… Read more »
Milja Viita’s Animal Bridge U-3033 (2018) and Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker (2019) were selected for Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival, held in Toronto from April 25 to May 5. Hot Docs is the largest documentary festival in North… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s On the Art of Set Design (2019) will have its world premiere in the international competition of short and mid-length films at Visions du Réel IFF, an internationally renowned documentary film festival, held from April 4–13 in Nyon,… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Sakke (2018), Johanna Lecklin’s Not Just a Matter of Passion (2018), 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… Read more »
After Tuomas Timonen, Your Art Is About to End, 2016
Read more »After Mieko Shiomi, Wind Music, Fluxversion I, 1963: Scores are blown away from stands by wind from a strong fan in the wings as the orchestra tries to hold them.
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