Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 5 The Raft of the Medusa (2017) was awarded with Amnesty International Award at the 15th IndieLisboa, held in Portugal from 26.4.–6.5.2018. The jury communicated the following statement: “It is with subtle irony and with a lot… Read more »
Aniko Kuikka’s new installation in the exhibition “Chumming” at Glasgow International 2018
Anikó Kuikka is showing her new virtual reality moving image installation Wednesday 12 (2018) in a group exhibition ‘Chumming‘. The show is part of the official programme of the biannual Glasgow International, held from 20.4.–7.5. ‘Chumming’ is a group exhibition of… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene selected for Sheffield Doc/Fest
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene (2017) will be screened at Sheffield Doc/Fest. Held from June 7–12, the festival is the third largest documentary film festival in the world. Included in the Doc/Rhythm strand, the screening of Arr. for a… Read more »
Timo Wright’s Solace awarded at 20MINMAX INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, INGOLSTADT
Timo Wright’s Solace (2017) was awarded as the best short film monochrome at 20minmax International Short Film Festival, held from April 20–28 in Ingolstadt, Germany. Solace is an experimental short film about the necessity of grief, an ode to sadness. The film… Read more »
Vappu Rossi’s wall paintings in the Mental Health: Mind Matters exhibition in Science Museum of Minnesota
Mental Health: Mind Matters, the award-winning exhibition about mental health opens on the May 4th at the Science Museum of Minnesota. The visual style of the exhibition is based on the unique wall paintings by Vappu Rossi, who has created… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s new installation in the Memory Appendix exhibition in Van Eyck institute, Maastricht
Maija Blåfield’s On Destruction and Preservation (2017) is included in the Memory Appendix exhibition in Van Eyck Institute, Maastricht. Open from 4.5.–15.6.2018, the exhibition deals with the relationship between time and memory. On Destruction and Preservation was previously installed in the… Read more »
FinnCycling-Soumi-Perkele! Volume 2
Martta Tuomaala
New work
Perkele is a cursing word in Finnish and refers to the devil. Suomi means Finland in Finnish, but Soumi means absolutely nothing. FinnCycling-Soumi-Perkele! dives into the dark side of Finland. It is a combination of politics, dark humour and protest rap in a form of an indoor cycling exercise: one woman’s gritty... Read more »
AV-arkki’s screening, Horelli & Kasitonni in competition & programme by Mika Taanila at ISFF Oberhausen
AV-arkki will present a distributor’s screening at International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, held from May 3–8. AV-arkki’s screening is a compilation of recent short films in distribution and takes place on Friday, May 4 at 22:00 in Lichtburg Filmpalast Star. The films… Read more »
Saara Ekström’s Amplifier in the Fugas Short Film competition of DocumentaMadrid
Saara Ekström’s Amplifier will have its world festival premiere in the Fugas Short Film Competition of the 15th International Documentary Film Festival DocumentaMadrid, held from May 3–13. The screenings of Amplifier take place on Friday, May 4, at 21:30 and… Read more »
Sami van Ingen’s film Flame wins the Best Film by Audience Jury Award at Fronteira Festival, Brasil
Sami van Ingen’s short film Flame wins the Best Film by Audience Jury Award at the IV Fronteira International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival in Goiânia, Brasil. The Short Film Competition of Fronteira 2018 featured 18 works selected out the 2755… Read more »
Timo Wright’s Ex Nihilo screened at New York Independent FF
Timo Wright’s experimental short documentary film Ex Nihilo (2017) will be screened at New York City Independent Film Festival, held from May 7–13. The screening of Ex Nihilo takes place in Experimental Film Session #1, on Wednesday, May 9, at… Read more »
Namibia Today
Laura Horelli
New work
Seven people wait in an underground station below Karl-Marx-Allee in former East Berlin. Billboards line the walls, each combining a front page of “Namibia Today” with associative material. “Namibia Today” was a journal of the Namibian liberation movement, which was printed and distributed by GDR... Read more »
Films by Mika Taanila and Marja Helander at Finnish Film Week in the Cineteca Nacional, Mexico
La Cineteca Nacional in Mexico celebrates Finnish cinema with a special programme of eight feature-length films and nine short films. The event is held from April 12–19. The selection includes films by Mika Taanila and Marja Helander. Mika Taanila‘s Tectonic… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 3 Boom and Waste no. 1 Money at Trento FF & Kyiv ISFF
Two short documentary films by Jan Ijäs, Waste no. 1 Money (2017) and Waste no. 3 Boom (2017) are screened this spring at Kyiv International Short Film Festival (Ukraine) and Trento Film Festival (Italy). Waste no. 1 Money is selected… Read more »
Meet the Artists: Minna Rainio & Mark Roberts
Recently awarded at the 8th Turku Biennial, Minna Rainio and Mark Roberts work on complex topics such as immigration, global capitalism, and climate change. In their installations and single channel works, they often look for new perspectives by drawing parallels… Read more »
Sami van Ingen’s Flame in the international competition of Fronteira IFF, Brasil
Sami van Ingen’s experimental short film Flame (2018) will be screened in the international short film competition of Fronteira International Film Festival. Held from April 12–21 in Goiânia, Brasil, the festival focuses on documentary and experimental film. The screening of… Read more »
The Ghost of the Present
Simo Saarikoski
New work
The video follows the protests against government in Bulgaria at summer 2013. It draws a parallel between the experiences of two generations. The video concentrates on two sites: the main stage of protests in the streets of the Sofia, and the surroundings of the Buzludzha Monument.
Read more »The Magic Kitchen
Simo Saarikoski
New work
The video portrays the life in a Balkan city at the edge of the European Union through its main character, Boriana Marinova. It is a present day image of life in Bulgaria after more than twenty years since the fall of communism. It documents people who live their lives in the shadow of the past.
Read more »Jaakko Pallasvuo’s Filter competes at ICDOCS and EMAF
Jaakko Pallasvuo’s short film Filter (2017) is selected in the international competitions of the European Media Art Festival (EMAF), held in Osnabrück, Germany, from April 18–22, and The Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival (ICDOCS), held from April 26–28. At EMAF,… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene and Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 5 The Raft of the Medusa at IndieLisboa
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene (2017) and Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 5 The Raft of the Medusa (2017) will be screened at IndieLisboa, held from 26.4.–6.5. in Portugal. Kina’s Arr. for a Scene was selected in the international short… Read more »
Films by Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Joakim Pusenius, Jan Ijäs, and Pink Twins at Rencontres Internationales
Short films by Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Joakim Pusenius, Jan Ijäs, and Pink Twins are screened at Rencontres Internationales. The festival is held in Paris from April 10–15. Eija-Liisa Ahtila‘s Studies on the Ecology of Drama (2017) is included in the opening… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene in the short film competition of Las Palmas IFF
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene (2017) is one of 12 short films picked for the official short film competition selection of Las Palmas International Film Festival, held from April 6–15 in Gran Canaria. Kina’s short film will be screened… Read more »
Finnish media artists selected for the first Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art
The first Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA1) will be held from 2.6.–28.10.2018. The theme of the RIBOCA1 is “Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More”. The Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA) is an international biennial… Read more »
Finlandia
Paavo Räbinä
New work
The past century has been bloody and painful. In Finland, those who experienced war were left permanently scarred. The subject was and still remains a taboo. Our generation today acknowledges the truth at last, but the suffering caused by past wars has left its mark on this generation as well. The video explores historical... Read more »
To the Unknown
Liinu Grönlund
New work
Scientists around the world come to Madagascar in order to study the mysteries of its unique forests and species, showing us that there is still much unknown to man. The poetic film takes a look at the researchers' work, the curious human mind and the vanishing time left to save the last forests.
Read more »Trick Brain
Kalle Nio
New work
Three magicians repeat the same magic trick again and again. The film delves into the essence of magic. How is the illusion of magic created? What is a magic trick? Will magic cease to exist if you see the trick repeatedly? If so, what will be left of it? The film lends its name from Dariel Fitzkee’s book The Trick... Read more »
Govadas
Elina Oikari
New work
Govadas explores the contradiction and harmony between humans and nature through Sámi poetry. The cyclical perception of time among the only indigenous people living in the European Union is presented in the work as unfolding forms and layers based on the archive material from the 1940's and the super 8 mm film... Read more »
Animal Days and Nights II (2010-2014)
Annette Arlander
New work
The video compilation consists of one work of each of the last five days and nights of the series recorded on Harakka Island (2010-2014): Day and Night of the Ox, Day and Night of the Tiger 1, Day and Night of the Rabbit - In the Year of the Dragon, Day and Night of the Dragon 2, Day and Night of the Snake - Swinging.
Read more »Animal Days and Nights I (2003-2009)
Annette Arlander
New work
The video compilation consists of one work of each of the first seven days and nights of the series recorded on Harakka Island (2003-2009): Day and Night of the Goat - Easter, Day and Night of the Monkey 1, Day and Night of the Rooster 1, Christmas of the Rooster - standing 2, Day and Night of the Dog, Day and Night of the... Read more »
Interceptor
Risto-Pekka Blom
New work
In 1989, an unknown person halted the column of armored troops at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. On the previous day, a demonstration that originated as a student protest, was violently suppressed by the army. In democracies, the use of brutal force has been replaced by structural violence, where the power is centered... Read more »