Featured image from: Minna Suoniemi: I’ve been bad but I’ve been good too (2022) Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Sami Ala: Holy Spear (2022, 01:56) Holy Spear is a… Read more »
Short films by Saara Ekström, Jonna Kina, Jussi Eerola, and Matti Harju at Rencontres internationales Paris
The Rencontres internationales festival will be held in Paris from May 2–8 2022. The programme includes moving image works by Saara Ekström, Jonna Kina, Jussi Eerola, and Matti Harju. Saara Ekström’s Shadow Codex (2021, in featured image) will be screened… Read more »
Plenty of Finnish artists’ moving image at the 68th ISFF Oberhausen
The 68th edition of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen will be held from April 30 – May 9 2022. The online programme of the festival is available from April 30 to May 3 on the festival platform. Matti Harju‘s… Read more »
Men At Work
Panu Johansson
New work
This found footage film follows one average workday in a factory environment. With a little fast forward and rewind everything around, the machines and the people working with them, becomes one. The industrial mood is completed with a soundtrack consisting of readymade loops and samples.
Read more »DermaBread Participatory Performance
Kaisu Koski
New work
This participatory performance offers surgical and anatomical training through the experience of tasting. The participants will engage with sensory skills acquisition, simulation, and the relationship between (non)human animal bodies and food through the experimental simulator DermaBread. DermaBread simulates the anatomy of... Read more »
Citizen Surgery Research Kitchen: Baking DermaBread
Kaisu Koski
New work
Enter the Citizen Surgery Research Kitchen. The team is developing a new recipe for a surgical simulator DermaBread in front of a Zoom audience. The session exposes the negotiations, materialities and temporalities involved in co-creation of edible vegan surgery simulators. The team tests various ingredients and techniques... Read more »
DermaBread
Kaisu Koski
New work
This short film introduces an edible surgical training simulator DermaBread. With DermaBread, one can learn about the anatomy of the skin, train their perception of depth, and practice diagnostics by taste. This particular demonstration highlights the difference between superficial and deep injury. DermaBread is part of the... Read more »
Maija Tammi’s and Kaisu Koski’s short films at 57th International Festival of Science Documentary Films, Olomouc
Maija Tammi’s The Problem of the Hydra (2020, in featured image) and Kaisu Koski’s DermaBread (2021) will be screened at the 57th International Festival of Science Documentary Films, held from April 26 to May 1 2022 in Academia Film Olomouc,… Read more »
Bond
Minna Suoniemi
New work
Bond portrays a mother and a son in what appears to be a wrestling bond that the mother repeatedly attempts to escape without succeeding. Closeness and battle intertwine in the protagonists’ bodily struggle. In her work, Suoniemi draws parallels with the bodily, psychological and societal bonds between and within her... Read more »
I've been bad but I've been good too
Minna Suoniemi
New work
I’ve been bad but I’ve been good too intertwines the materiality of film with the materiality of the ageing body and transgenerational bodily experience of excessiveness and being in-excess. The child-like uncanny narration addresses the protagonist’s foremothers, and all women and mothers through... Read more »
New Bugs
Miia Rinne
New work
In New Bugs, things merge, collide, and intrude into each other. At one point, bird eats worms, and the second moment worms eat carcass of a bird. Everything goes around. New Bugs is the sixth part in Rinne’s series of films that construct image and sound by layering and recycling analog and digital fragments.
Read more »Dear Spruce
Annette Arlander
New work
This letter to a spruce was performed with a spruce in Mustarinda in northeastern Finland on 25 September 2020. The artist read the letter written to the spruce in Finnish, recorded it as a voice-over to the video, translated it and added English subtitles.
Read more »Dear Birch
Annette Arlander
New work
This letter to a birch was performed with a birch in Mustarinda on 29 September 2020. The artist read the letter written to the birch in Swedish, recorded it as a voice-over to the video, translated it and added English subtitles.
Read more »Pink Twins’ The Eternal and Matti Harju’s El Centro selected for the New Point of View competition of THIS IS SHORT online festival
Pink Twins’ The Eternal (2021, in featured image) and Matti Harju’s El Centro (2021) were selected for the New Point of View European Online Competition of THIS IS SHORT festival. The Eternal is streamed at THIS IS SHORT platform from… Read more »
End of the line
Markus Viljanen
New work
Two men limewashing the tracks of the sport ground.
Read more »Towards the end
Markus Viljanen
New work
Four episodes of runners in Helsinki City Marathon.
Read more »Finnish shorts at Go Short International Short Film Festival Nijmegen
The programme of this year’s Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen includes several shorts by our artists. The festival will be held from April 1-10 2022 in Nijmegen, Netherlands, and online. Joel Karppanen’s A Nature Documentary (2021, in… Read more »
Their Greenness
Markus Viljanen
New work
Very short film of greenness.
Read more »Alive (but at what cost)
Hinni Huttunen
New work
A short film about convalescing.
Read more »Konijntje
Eeva-Mari Haikala
New work
In this video performance, a woman hides under tree roots.
Read more »Red Devil
Eeva-Mari Haikala
New work
In this video performance, a woman attempts to defend a football goal.
Read more »Cuberdon
Eeva-Mari Haikala
New work
Cuberdon is a traditional Belgian sweet. It is also known with the name neuzeke, small nose. In this video performance, a woman tries to put neuzeke on her nose.
Read more »Zero Robots
Rosa Liksom
New work
A lonely robot living deep in an old-growth forest is looking for a friend. A friend is found from a production forest, and together, they set out for an adventure. They arrive in a desert rural village and settle down for a while in an abandoned house. They continue their travel and head for the city. Suddenly, they have... Read more »
Marja from Carelia
Rosa Liksom
New work
A documentary film tells the story of a gallerist Marjatta Nenander, born in the Finnish Carelia. After the outbreak of the Winter War, she had to flee first to Western Finland and then to Sweden, where she settled down after returning to Finland for some years.... Read more »
Go Hard – Door Closes
Denise Ziegler
New work
While following an endurance exercise in an almost empty ice hockey arena, the sound and movement of the rehearsal start to define the huge space. The massive wooden door of a cathedral closes slowly without sound. These vast spaces are animated by movement, sound and silence.
Read more »Seahorses
Sara Pathirane
New work
Seahorses depicts a dance of seahorses being born in ancient times in mythological land resembling to imaginary Lemuria. Later, far-away in the future, the seahorses wake up from their fossil bodies and through methamorphosis they achieve Rambo-like powers on a sandy beach. Seahorses is a non-linear choreography for camera... Read more »
Hemera - Awakening of Spring
Sara Pathirane
New work
Hemera – Awakening of Spring depicts a dance of a lady bug on the last day of spring just before summer breaks out. The wind blows still cold and wild waking up the lady bug and calling her for learning to fly. Through hardships and metamorphosis, the lady bug finds a new celestial body and grows herself wings that... Read more »
Complementarity
Leda Vaneva
New work
The principle of complementarity comes from quantum mechanics. The idea shows how physical reality is built of partly unpredictable elements, which cannot be known in their entirety. Complementarity embraces this uncertainty and celebrates the intrinsic duality of the world.
Read more »Inurement
Ilkka Pitkänen
New work
Karaisu (Inurement) is a performative video work about the so called dreamtime and man's alienated relationship with nature. The ritualistic music created by composer Ilari Edelmann and musician Olli Kari resonates with the soundscape of the environment and complements the work's dreamlike visual language.
Read more »Paris
Paula Saraste
New work
Paris is a story about a night and an idea that emerges and disappears. It is a portrayal of a mystical encounter and a journey that lasts only till the morning.
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