Azar Saiyar’s and Jan Ruscica’s videos were selected to Seoul International NewMedia Festival (NEMAF), held from August 17–25 in South Korea. Saiyar’s short documentary film History Bleeds Under Your Fingernails (2016) is picked in the international competition called “Glocal Propose.”… Read more »
Risto-Pekka Blom’s Theme Park screened at Rooftop Films, New York
Risto-Pekka Blom’s short film Theme Park (2015) opens the closing night screening of the Rooftop Films series on Saturday, August 19 at 20:00. Rooftop Films travels around the New York City presenting events on rooftops, parks, and other scenic spots, celebrating… Read more »
The Leaning and the Blind
Sara Pathirane
New work
By the Leaning tower of Pisa, an endless choreography goes on. Attempting to catch the iconic shot, people are posing as if holding the tower up. Hundreds of strangers fumble and probe at air, like the blind, finding their way. This creates a shared language of movement, a global game of chinese whispers. In... Read more »
REVERSEforward
Mikko Kallinen
New work
Animated dance film reaches towards “familiarly alien” athmospere. It approaches choreographic concept from a very wide perspective. All movement is considered as grand choreographic network, where everything is interconnected. All moving characters and abstract architectural constructions of the network have... Read more »
The Raft of the Medusa
Jan Ijäs
New work
Le radeau de la Méduse parallels the wrecked boats of the African immigrants on the Italian Lampedusa island and the abandoned cars of asylum seekers that have travelled from Russia to Salla, Finnish Lapland with Théodore Géricault’s painting The Raft of the Medusa (1818-1819), located in Louvre.... Read more »
Amplifier
Saara Ekström
New work
Time inevitably moves from past to future, passing the present moment. Mankind encloses to time its marks, stains and ruins. On the verge of vast changes time acts abnormally. It leaks, folds and fractures, allowing things belonging elsewhere, to the otherworldly, to
permeate itself. In the 8mm film the Helsinki Olympic... Read more »
Island
Salla Myllylä
New work
Cars move by behind a painted surface. A traffic island with small pine trees is revealed by scratching the painted surface. Trams and people pass by. The traffic island is a strange piece of urban nature.
Read more »Prime
Kari Yli-Annala
New work
A re-structured glitch portrait of the Finnish prime minister in the middle of an interview, where he questions the existence of the critical media in the future.
Read more »Black Lives Matter
Petri Saarikko Sasha Huber
New work
Black Lives Matter is a performance about police brutality faced predominately by African-American population due to deep rooted racism. The performance depicts a fictitious police officer writing uncountable times Black Lives Matter on a chalkboard wall as a form of non-violent penalty.
Read more »Lullabies
Petri Saarikko
New work
It's been said that children speak the truth. Where this blind faith of truth they provide us with originates from? From the metaphysical ether of ideas? From the Sirens in the seas of the unconscious, or from the Dreamtime? From our own foolish unconditional love? Indigenous cultures preserved the essence of their... Read more »
Parsley
Petri Saarikko Sasha Huber
New work
The tragic Parsley Massacre event took place in the Dominican Republic during the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in 1937. The word perejil was used to identify and separate Afro-Dominicans from Afro-Haitians. The pronunciation of the Spanish word parsley (perejil) determined their fate. The genocidal event influences Haiti... Read more »
Nonstop
Rita Jokiranta
New work
Nonstop is a multi-layered video work about the everyday carousel of life that cannot be avoided or controlled. It focuses on a revolving door through which a stream of people come and go, sometimes fast, sometimes slower, but always without individual possibilities for change.
Read more »Suomi Finland
Aimo Hyvärinen
New work
A man is running towards the camera closer and closer. The landscape is large countryside, agriculture. When the man is close to the camera he takes a paper from his pocket and says "My boy did it". And then he continues to run towards his own house, followed by the camera.
Read more »Botox Baby
Anneli Nygren
New work
After punk and heavy rock, Jonne 59 & friends try their luck with disco music.
Read more »PaperBabes - Age of Reason
Anneli Nygren
New work
Too young, too old, always the wrong age.
Read more »Summer at Söder
Annette Arlander
New work
This is a video created of material recorded in the mornings on the shore near Eriksdal on Söder during the days in the summer 2016 when the artist lived on Blekingegatan in Stockholm.
Read more »Scenes of Disclosure
Kaisu Koski
New work
Standardized patients work with medical students to help them practice their clinical and interpersonal skills. In this film, standardized patients of the McGovern Medical School in Houston portray three distinct characters and repertoires of responses, while medical students learn to proceed according to a “breaking... Read more »
Frozen
Minna Suoniemi
New work
Frozen portrays two girls sitting next to each other in a forest environment. One of the girls is facing the camera with melancholic expressions on her face. The other girl is portrayed with her eyes closed turned sideways to the camera. The video speed is altered, which creates a dense atmosphere between the girls. The... Read more »
Rule the World
Minna Suoniemi
New work
Rule the World portrays a teenage girl standing seemingly still surrounded by a forest. She has a masked bite wound on her neck and her face seems tense. Micro expressions on her face are changing rapidly. The soundtrack is a composition with the same title by 15-year-old Elsa Pursio. The fast electronic beat contradicts... Read more »
Researchers of Vampires
Anneli Nygren
New work
The story of Turku Vampire (2010) continues. Lead by their charismatic teacher Sidonia, the female vampire researchers get too close to their subject. But what has Elizabeth Bathory to do with Turku?
Read more »Waste no.3 Boom
Jan Ijäs
New work
Boom was shot in Kittilä in northern Finland, in a ‘lunar landscape’ on top of a hill where the Finnish armed forces annually disposes of expired explosives. Calculations show that detonation is the least expensive method of disposal. During a weeklong camp a total of 1.2 million kg of explosives are... Read more »
Waste no.1 Money
Jan Ijäs
New work
Inflation has resulted in the Zimbabwe dollar completely losing its value. Banknotes are literally recyclable goods, turned into tablecloths and lampshades, for example. In the Harare slums, which are rife with crime, valuable US dollar banknotes must be concealed in clothing, which means that the notes quickly become... Read more »
Ex Nihilo
Timo Wright
New work
Ex Nihilo is an experimental short documentary about life, death and our attempts to control them. It tells the stories of an advanced humanoid robot, a cryonics facility, where brains of deceased are held and of a seed vault, where crop seed from around the world are kept frozen.
Read more »Jurmala
Laura Horelli
New work
Collaboration with Agnese Luse, Angela Melitopoulos, Eléonore de Montesquiou, Tanja Ostojic, Meggie Schneider, Isabell Spengler, Gitte Villesen.... Read more »
Predictions
Marja Viitahuhta
New work
Predictions is a series of monologues depicting visions of the future spoken out as personal predictions by young performers. The layout is plain: speech, nothing more. Each monologue unfolds as an image described in relation to the narrator’s experience of the situation depicted. The monologues combine fiction with... Read more »
Bremer's Nightmare
Marja Viitahuhta
New work
Robert Bremer (1777-1844) was a Finnish miner, factory owner, alchemist and astronomer who predicted a deluge that would flood over the city of Turku in 1827. He had boats attached underneath the windows of his family members in case the water would start rising some night. However, since the deluge never came, he built a... Read more »
The Inland Sea
Marja Viitahuhta
New work
Two stories of parenting and the fear of the drowning of one’s child based on real experiences. The juxtaposition of the stories reveals the many similarities in them, but at the same time the difference between the situations where these events happened. The first story describes how the daughter of a Finnish... Read more »
Qualia
Antti Tanttu
New work
Blackboard animation Qualia seeks for the essence of experience. There is no such thing as same feeling, same pain, same colour. Qualia is always subjective. The essence of universal experience is unreachable.
Read more »Hello Everybody
Juha van Ingen
New work
Greetings from near to far, from us to you. All inclusive, welcoming all. Over distances, over time. You are all welcome. While greeting customs are highly culture and situation-specific, they exist in all known human cultures. The greetings that form the narrative in Hello Everybody are taking the familiar ritual one step... Read more »
Workers' Forum
Pilvi Takala
New work
The idea for Workers' Forum developed from Takala’s experience as a micro-tasker in the United States, working for a service where users pay to have a pretend girlfriend or boyfriend texting them. Through a crowdsourcing platform, the artist responded to the task "Write a text message that is positive, engaging and... Read more »