How to do a vanishing act backwards? A poetic film about living on the brink of biodiversity loss, growing up, boundaries, and negotiation. It is about imagining new ways of coexistence and listening to one’s surroundings. The work combines live action with stop-motion animation, dialogue, and voiceover.
Read more »What might declining oxygen levels bring about at the edge of the Baltic Sea? Informed by symbiosis and the plasticity of aquatic life, the film meditates on the coping mechanisms of submerged organisms as they respond to shifting environmental conditions.
Read more »Does foam breathe? In the tidal zone of a lagoon, new relationships unfold in the in the wake of a catastrophic event.
Read more »Milja Viita‘s experimental documentary Seafearers (SKÖNÄRIT) will compete at Archivio Aperto, taking place in Bologna, Italy from September 26–30, 2025. Archivio Aperto is a festival dedicated to the rediscovery of small-format film heritage — private, amateur, experimental, artist’s cinema —… Read more »
Sophia Ehrnrooth‘s 879 Heroes by Heart will be presented as a major four-channel moving image installation at the 2025 Coventry Biennial, held from October 3rd, 2025 to January 25th, 2026 in Coventry and Warwickshire, United Kingdom. 879 Heroes by Heart… Read more »
The film takes the form of a road movie — a bleak, fear-tinged coming-of-age story during which the protagonists spiral downward as their internal moral compass disintegrates, ultimately leading them to a kind of self-acceptance: a hazy, entangled creation, like tightly compressed playdough.
Read more »The program Public Provocations puts together eight short films by Pilvi Takala, curated by Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen. The program includes the following films: Broad Sense (2011), Drive with Care (2013), Easy Rider (2006), If Your… Read more »
Martta Tuomaala‘s Am I Calling You at A Bad Time will premiere at Nordisk Panorama Film Festival, held from 18–23 September, 2025 in Malmö Sweden. The film is nominated for the Best Nordic Short Film Award. Nordisk Panorama Film Festival… Read more »
Saara Ekström‘s work titled Geopsyche is presented as a part of Time After Time, an exhibition featuring five Nordic artists exploring themes like nature, energy, time, light, darkness, as well as and human presence and absence. The works, both above… Read more »
Lau Rämö‘s Anima (featured image) and Pink Twins‘ Firewalk will be screened at the Open-Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, held from August 14th to 18th, 2025 in Weiterstadt, Germany. The film Anima follows the perspective of a primate researching life through books…. Read more »
Eyes Eyes Baby is a psychoanalytic makeup tutorial on how to paint eyes in order to see more. This humorous and thought-provoking video piece contemplates the self (image) as both subject and object.
Read more »The work depicts a sense of being in a constant state of alert. The natural, relaxing sounds resemble the sounds of emergency vehicles, mixing with urban sounds. Due to the rapid alternation of light and darkness, one cannot be certain what is real, and what is a figment of one's imagination.
Read more »The artist performs in three different ways with a pine in Nobelparken, Stockholm, over the course of a year (10 January – 22 December 2022), altogether 69 times. In the work, these three performances are edited into three synchronized videos and inserted side by side into an image of the pine.
Read more »On 21 February 2021, the artist sits on a twisted pine tree on Örö Island and writes a letter to the tree, wondering at the fog and the silence. The text appears as a crawl at the bottom of the image.
Read more »Pictures of the sky appear on a phone forgotten outdoors. Nearby, slime trails shimmer in the fading evening light. The animation, unfolding at the pace of a phone conversation, explores crossing paths, multispecies communication, and perception. It is an associative journey into the unknown.
Read more »A couple living with intellectual disability are testing a Dutch innovation, SentiSocks by Hume, originally designed to detect stress of people with dementia or speech impairment.
Read more »Shubhangi Singh‘s Birth of A Grenade (featured image) and Niina Suominen‘s Good Stuff are part of LABOCINE‘s July issue Fruitopia. In this curated selection of films, the fruit becomes a prism—splitting into themes of innocence and decay, labor and leisure,… Read more »
Mika Taanila‘s film Failed Emptiness (2024) has been selected to New Horizons International Film Festival, taking place from July 17th to 27th, 2025 in Wrocław, Poland. The film will be screened in the section “Lost, Lost, Lost” curated by Agnieszka… Read more »
AV-arkki invites all artists working with moving image to submit their new title(s) for AV-arkki’s distribution catalogue 2025-2026. For the catalogue, we are looking for primarily single channel works that are/will be released in 2025 or 2026. The works can… Read more »
Milja Viita‘s experimental documentary SKÖNÄRIT has been selected to Festival ECRÃ of Experimental Art and Cinema, held from July 3–27, 2024 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. SKÖNÄRIT is a collage film about seafarers based on archival footage shot around the… Read more »
The Earth's Mantle Hides an Ocean is a song about time — its layers and the life beneath the surface. It explores childhood and its fleeting nature, the tensions and the consequences of our actions. It is intertwined with the essence of lichen and the imagination of a child.
Read more »In Roman Charity, the artist recreates the famous painting of the same title by Peter Paul Rubens from the perspective of the breastfeeding woman. The video essay weaves together reflections on art history and fragments from Rubens’ life with elements of the artist’s personal history.
Read more »Hannaleena Heiska’s film Metamorphosis will be screened at the Lago Film Festival, held from 18th to 26th July, 2025 in Revine Lago, Italy. The film will be part of the section Moving Bodies, which features dance-focused films. Founded in 2005… Read more »