Maija Tammi’s essay film The Problem of the Hydra (2020) was recently screened at ImagineScience Film Festival, held in New York from October 15-22 2021. Next screenings will be Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, held from November 4-14 2021… Read more »
Risto-Pekka Blom’s, Azar Saiyar’s, and Mika Taanila’s short films selected for “In Silico” competition of IFF Message to Man
Risto-Pekka Blom’s Please Leave a Message After the Tone (2021, in featured image), Azar Saiyar’s Laila’s Apple (2021), and Mika Taanila’s Failed Emptiness. Time (2021) were selected for the experimental “In Silico” competition at International Film Festival Message to Man,… Read more »
Jaakko Pietiläinen’s, Marja Helander’s, and Elina Oikari’s short films at Nordic Film Days Lübeck
Jaakko Pietiläinen’s Shrouds Have No Pockets (2021, in featured image), Marja Helander’s Suodji (2020), and Elina Oikari’s Flying Potato and Other Misunderstandings (2021) were picked for the short film selection of Nordic Film Days Lübeck, held from November 3-7 2021… Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s retrospective at Uppsala International Short Film Festival
The 40th Uppsala International Short Film Festival presents a retrospective of Azar Saiyar’s short films. The festival is held from October 25-31 2021, and the screening of Saiyar’s retrospective takes place on Saturday, October 30, in film theater Fyris. The… Read more »
Dissortion
Jade Kallio
New work
Dissortion is a poetic depiction of longing on the obscure border of real and delusion. Two bodies detached from a Baroque painting seek touch - they cling to each other, wandering timeless rooms that localize in mind rather than matter. Desire and violence, genders and epochs mix into a fragmented love story.
Read more »Prelude Op. 28 No. 2
Jenni Toikka
New work
During a single long shot, we see two people taking turns playing the piano and listening alternately. The piece is the same on both times - Preludi Op. 28 No. 2 by Chopin - but when the performer changes, the interpretation of the song changes along with the perspective from which the song and its performance are viewed.... Read more »
How it was?
Sami Ala
New work
Four people who lived in the same apartment building at different times tell what it was like to live in the house. They tell about their apartment and the spaces they knew and the spaces they were aware of but never visited. Are all places, spaces ultimately mere states of mind?
Read more »Mika Taanila’s films touring Europe from Portugal to St. Petersburg
Mika Taanila’s Failed Emptiness. Time (2021) and other films are screened at various film festivals around Europe. Failed Emptiness. Time is screened at the moment at DocLisboa, in the “New Visions” strand. The festival is held on-site and online from… Read more »
Videos by Elina Brotherus in the Nordic House at the Faroe Islands
18-31 October 2021, the Nordic House at the Faroe Islands is showing five video works by Elina Brotherus from the series called Règle du jeu (rules of the game). In the videos, Elina Brotherus is following various instructions from other artists’ performance… Read more »
New animations by Pink Twins and Marja Viitahuhta at Fredrikstad Animation Festival, Norway
Pink Twins’ The Eternal (2021, in featured image) and Marja Viitahuhta’s Dolat (2021) are screened at Fredrikstad Animation Festival, held from October 21–24 2021 in Norway and online. The Eternal is included in the “Abstraction” showcase, taking place on Thursday,… Read more »
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic at Athens International Film + Video Festival, the United States
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic (2020) is screened at Athens International Film + Video Festival, held in the United States from October 15–24 2021. The screening of Blue Honda Civic takes place on Friday, October 22, at 13:00. The romantic… Read more »
Finnish Focus at Fracto Experimental Film Encounter, Berlin
Fracto Experimental Film Encounter is presenting this year a Finnish Focus. The event is held from October 21–24 2021 in Berlin, Kunsthaus Acud. The Finnish Focus screenings take place in Acud Kino on Thursday, October 21 at 21:30 and on… Read more »
The 1m3 of Human Experiment
Maija Tammi Charles Quevillon
New work
The 1m3 of Human Experiment is a vivid, claustrophobic, and possibly an occasionally nauseating artwork that examines the problematic separation of mind and body and questions the trustworthiness of our senses. In the work, a human confined in a square box tries to make sense of his world. A cable coming out of his mouth... Read more »
Down to the Water
Paula Saraste
New work
A story of a small family escaping their home at night. They embark a journey towards an unknown destination and go missing. The father drives his family to an increasingly despaired state and finally he ends up in confusion and loneliness. It is a story of an end of a family. The daughter and mother gradually liberate... Read more »
Minus World
Matti Harju
New work
Nintendo game, codeine and online bdsm all blend in this minimalist speculation circling and edging towards a new view of otherness within.
Read more »Aliens
Matti Harju
New work
A film about how language, be it film, art or written language, creates in itself a system where separation precedes contact.
Read more »Afrikka
Matti Harju
New work
Nerve-wracking and frayed experimental fiction that shows a psychotic man and his direct surroundings in a totally uncompromising way. Our interaction with others is based on the idea that we all share the same reality. That turns out not always to be the case.
Read more »Sketch for the Last Map
Lauri Astala
New work
In the core of Sketch for the Last Map, overlapping translucent indoor and outdoor spaces relate to the multi-layered and placeless world in our digital era. Many faces of cities – private spaces, less “public” realities, cleared, restricted or fenced off out of sight - stay excluded from maps and the... Read more »
Videos by HNV Collective, Pink Twins, and Niina Suominen at Videomedeja
25th International New Media Art Festival Videomedeja is held from October 14–16 2021 in Novi Sad, Serbia. Honkasalo-Niemi-Virtanen Collective’s Atomic (2020, in featured image) and Pink Twins’ The Eternal (2021) were selected for the competitions of the festival. Atomic will… Read more »
Milja Viita’s and Arttu Nieminen’s short films at 20minmax ISFF Ingolstadt
Milja Viita’s When We Are Nothing Left (2020) and Arttu Nieminen’s Ultima Kaltio (2021) are screened at 20minmax International Short Film Festival Ingolstadt, held both on-site and online from October 13–21 2021. Viita’s short film will be screened in “Night… Read more »
The Time of a Slime Mold
Leena Pukki
New work
The movement of slime mold is combined with pattern subjects selected from Karelian thread blankets. Slime molds are primitive Amoebozoa organisms that can move even they do not have a brain or nervous system. The poem heard in the background expresses themes of time, circulation and decomposing.
Read more »Breaks at Dawn
Nina-Maria Oförsagd
New work
In Breaks at Dawn we move in the hours when it is dark and nothing happens, outside of everyday reality in an interstice before a metropolis wakes up. What happens in the surroundings when time has no relevance?
Read more »Arrangement non-existent
Nina-Maria Oförsagd
New work
Arrangement non-existent is a short film on how time is experienced now, in motion, at place. During an improvised performance in a selected location, two characters become connected through movement, and their movement grows into a larger pattern combined with sound, poetry, and words. Isolated from each other, the... Read more »
Risto-Pekka Blom’s Please Leave a Message After the Tone at Offline Film Festival, Ireland
Risto-Pekka Blom’s Please Leave a Message After the Tone (2021) will be screened at OFFline Film Festival, held in Birr, Ireland, from October 13–17 2021. The screening of Blom’s film will take place on Saturday, October 16 at 11:00 in… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic awarded with the First Prize at Videoex, Zürich – also in view in Canada, Lanzarote, and Luxembourg
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) was awarded with the first prize (ex aequo with Suneil Sanzgiri’s Letter from Your Far-Off Country, 2020) at Videoex Experimental Film & Video Festival, held in Zürich from October 1–10 2021. “Both films employ experimental,… Read more »
Framed
Okku Nuutilainen
New work
Three seagulls fly in the fog, each in their own video projection. The framing of the images changes as the seagulls are kept in the centre of the images. In a black space, the projections create the sides of a white cube, that almost comes together over and over again.
Read more »Four Trick Pony
Mina Laamo Pia Andell
New work
Four Trick Pony (2020) is a video installation constructed of the personal film and video archives of two documentarists. Based on prime numbers, the work uncouples itself from the bonds of documentary cinema, the tradition of narrativity, and the logic of causality. It never repeats the same twice.... Read more »
An Island at Sea
Okku Nuutilainen
New work
Two barking dogs are running around an island. A camera at sea is following them. The image changes in size and that creates an illusion of distance. An odd sense of treat is created as the video gaze is sizing up the island.
Read more »My Home
Azar Saiyar
New work
"A bee stung me on my finger. It happened yesterday in the yard of a kindergarten, even though I am not in kindergarten anymore.” Fragmented memories of childhood and adulthood blend together in a song that an unknown narrator is humming. In a sixties TV show children are learning a new game. Someone is waiting in the... Read more »
Evolution In Standstill
Petteri Cederberg
New work
The animation contemplates the effects of isolation and forced standstill on the life of an individual. During the prolonged isolation the view shifts from the world and future inwards. Where one actually is and what has one achieved in one’s life? What will remain from all of it? After the constant movement and... Read more »