Saara Ekström‘s experimental films are now included in the collection of and distributed by Light Cone, based in Paris. Light Cone is a renowned organization whose aim is the distribution, promotion and preservation of experimental cinema in France and around… Read more »
Shubhangi Singh’s Birth of a Grenade selected to Athens Digital Arts Festival (April 3–7, 2025)
Shubhangi Singh’s Birth of a Grenade (2024) has been selected in the program of Athens Digital Arts Festival, held from April 3–7, 2025 in Athens, Greece. For over a hundred years, when the ships belonging to the East India Company… Read more »
Taija Goldblatt’s Ocean’s Skeleton selected to compete at 2ANNAS International Short Film Festival, Riga
Taija Goldblatt‘s Ocean’s Skeleton has been selected to the International Short Film Competition at 2ANNAS International Short Film Festival held from 4-6 April, 2025 in Riga, Latvia. Ocean’s Skeleton (2024) is an animation of the ocean’s bones, the joints of… Read more »
Existence III
Leena Lehti
New work
Anacampsis fuscella is an endangered species of moth. The film is shot on one suburban block in the Finnish city of Tampere, where the insect lives invisibly among the city life. Existence is an experimental short film trilogy dedicated to insects and life.
Read more »Existence II
Leena Lehti
New work
Excistence II focuses on bees, proposing a gaze filled with curiosity and compassion. The bees seen in the hand processed film died due to winter loss. Existence is an experimental short film trilogy dedicated to insects and life. The title refers to the alarming decline in insect populations.
Read more »Vesa-Pekka Rannikko’s Rat and Border Dog and Saara Ekström’s Amnion compete at video art festival VIDEOFORMES, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Vesa-Pekka Rannikko‘s Rat and Border Dog (featured image) and Saara Ekström‘s Amnion have been selected in the video art competition of the international video art festival VIDEOFORMES. The festival takes place from March 13 to 16, 2025 in Clermont-Ferrand, France…. Read more »
Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl part of the exhibition Disruptions. Early video Art in Europe at FMAC Geneva
Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl is part of the exhibition Disruptions. Early video Art in Europe at FMAC Geneva is on view from February 20 to April 23, 2025. The exhibition is part of the research project Emergence of Video Art in Europe… Read more »
Art for Art’s Sake screening series continues at Cinema Orion on March 11th exploring themes of habitation and belonging
The beloved Art for Art’s Sake screening series is back! The first screening of the year takes place on Tuesday, 11th of March 2025 and explores themes of habitation and belonging. On various scales, the city as well as dynamics… Read more »
Sami Sänpäkkilä’s Ritual for the Rainbow to be screened at five Nordic children’s and youth film festivals and included on the educational platform Norden i Skolen
Sami Sänpäkkilä‘s film Ritual for the Rainbow will be shown at five film festivals who are part of NosJE network of Nordic children’s and youth film festivals: Reykjavik International Film Festival (Iceland), BUFF Malmö Film Festival (Sweden), Kristiansand International Children’s… Read more »
Earth
Marja Viitahuhta
New work
In Eanan, a luohti (Northern Sami yoik) about earth and land, the lifegiver and cultural starting point of the Sámi people, is performed by indigenous musician Ánnámáret.The video, animated by Marja Viitahuhta, is produced from ethnogaraphic photographs and drawings from the... Read more »
Njáhcu
Marja Viitahuhta
New work
Plants growing in Sápmi appear in this video work as an animated wallpaper, where the plants are covered in fog or snow. Day and night, summer and winter, real and dream alternate. The luohti in the work calls for Biegg'olmmái, the God of Wind, for help: the exceptionally warm air and rainfall of northern... Read more »
Invasive Species
Risto-Pekka Blom
New work
Invasive species are a threat to biodiversity, including all other invasive species. Note: The film includes a musical performance by an extremely harmful invasive species.
Read more »Almanach
Monika Czyzyk
New work
Three characters transform natural, elemental materials into music in a hypnotic, shamanic dance of bodies, sounds, and landscapes. Stones, shells, clay, wood, and air act reverberate together in hypnotic and constantly expanding audio-visual echoes.
Read more »With the Pine in Lill-Jansskogen 1-11
Annette Arlander
New work
Eleven conversations on current topics with a pine were recorded in Lill-Jansskogen wood in central Stockholm in the year 2022 (26.2., 22.3., 15.4., 20.5., 11.6., 26.7., 16.8., 16.9., 7.10., 19.11. ja 18.12.2022). They strive to approach the tree as a subject although the result is a kind of monologue inspired by the pine.... Read more »
Jumi-Jami
Albert Laine Kristina Laine
New work
Jumi-jami is an audiovisual performance that combines physicality with sonic and video art. Every pop and snap are audible through the PA system in the intimate ASMR spirit.Our bodies are versatile, fine-tuned systems that allow us to move and communicate in the world around us. Many of us do sedentary work on... Read more »
Magical Healing Pony II
Katri Tikkanen
New work
Magical Healing Pony II portrays a dreamlike encounter where a magical, healing pony appears. During this dream, all fears dissolve, and the physical burdens of the body vanish.
Read more »Sanna Liljander’s When Will the Day Break, Albert Laine’s Closer and Albert Laine & Kristina Laine’s Memories in the Clouds in the Nordic Competition at Minimalen Short Film Festival, Trondheim
Sanna Liljander’s When Will the Day Break (featured image), Albert Laine’s Closer and Albert Laine & Kristina Laine’s Memories in the Clouds are selected to the Nordic Competition of Minimalen Short Film Festival, held from January 21st to 26th, 2025… Read more »
Anima
Lau Rämö
New work
The film Anima follows the perspective of a primate researching life through books. The views come closer, and crawl under the skin. This associative animation piece combines personal and archival material, exploring distance, physical presence, and connection. It examines the relationships between living... Read more »
Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears and Elli Vuorinen’s Still Lives at International Film Festival Rotterdam (January 30th–February 9th, 2025)
Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears (featured image) and Elli Vuorinen’s Still Lives will screen in the Short & Mid-length category at the 54th edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam, held from January… Read more »
D/composition
Jukka Silokunnas
New work
Stop motion animation about the last piano sonata – realized with a sledge hammer.
Read more »Theory of the derive
Clément Beraud
New work
Warning:This film contain audio that may be alarming and/or trigger traumas.This film is not a spectacle. It has no pretentions.If you're looking for a film that will change from your daily life, this film is not for you.If you want to watch a film that will make you forget your existence, this film... Read more »
Whirl
Clément Beraud
New work
Whirl is a short experimental film that explores the contemporary links between human and nature. The sound work echoes the everlasting longing for life of non-human animals facing extinction. The distorted sound of whales and other animals become a crying song, lamenting the destruction of the environment caused by humans.... Read more »
Ulmus Laevis
Aimo Hyvärinen
New work
Ulmus Laevis (Pen Elm) is a poetic video and photographic work about the Finland's northernmost pen elm and its thoughts as the seasons change. The work evokes thoughts about the relationship between nature and human and attempts to convey the beauty of trees to all of us.... Read more »
Green Land
Jaana Kokko
New work
Green Land takes place in rural Latvia. Its key image – the gestalt of history – is a concrete sculpture by Rasma Bruzīte from 1952. Depicting a collective farm worker, it personifies both personal as well as state memory, in different ways. The main characters, former collective farm workers Irēna, Veronika... Read more »
Kai Oka’s The Closing Circle (1992/2023) at AGORA Movement Space, Budapest
Kai Oka’s The Closing Circle will be showcased at AGORA Movement Space, Budapest on Friday 20th December as part of a special screening event. At the heart of the evening is the premiere screening of The Closing Circle (1992/2023), a 14-minute cinematic… Read more »
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth (Eatnanvuloš Lottit) on view at Botkyrka Konsthall, Sweden
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth (Eatnanvuloš Lottit) is included in Botkyrka Konsthall‘s film programme titled “We are fluid from all directions, from all directions we meet”. The film programme is presented within the exhibition format where films are shown… Read more »
I Was Born
Elina Oikari
New work
A man is born on the river. He travels through contrasting landscapes and seasons. The protagonist yearns for the peace of nature but is continuously surrounded by the artificial, while a mysterious figure seems to follow him on his journey.... Read more »
Gardenia
Helena Aleksandrova
New work
This Frankenstein-inspired sci-fi dance film explores surveillance, video-boredom and the limits of video pleasure. Through movement, music and imagery, it reflects on the tension between observation, obsession, control, and the fleeting nature of visual entertainment.
Read more »Whispers of Odd
Helena Aleksandrova
New work
Whispers of Odd is a surreal Super 8mm short film created in collaboration with Riga Circus. Inspired by clowns, acrobats, and Kenneth Anger, it explores curiosity and boredom through poetic visuals, physical comedy and virtuosity. The film is part of the Trilogy of Stage anthology by Film Tonight! collective.
Read more »Smoking Spot
Niina Suominen
New work
An experimental film about the loss of the communal smoking area.
This work contemplates themes of cultural norms, social meanings and territorial behaviour of human beings. A smoking spot is more than just a place to smoke.