Outline is a music video and triptych of cafe life. It's also a short essay on the ontology of images. It shows pictures of people in small heptagon shape Cafe Mutteri in Helsinki.
Read more »Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Animations Gun Holmström: The Spiritual Life of a Spruce (2020, 08:00) A charcoal animation with a message from nature. Life is flow, diversity, and… Read more »
Discover these recent single channel works and installations in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Heini Aho: Touching the Modern Life (2020, 09:30) In the video a pair of hands first emerges from… Read more »
Mika Taanila’s Patent Nr. 314805 (2020), Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) and Jonna Kina’s Akiya (2020) have been selected for Kasseler DokFest in Germany. Kasseler DokFest is held online November 17–22. Patent No. 314805 is part of the Short &… Read more »
A block of ballistic gel is repeatedly stabbed and then beaten. Somewhere there is a cat.
Read more »This video brings up questions about our relationship with space, the notion of home and the everyday in the context of the extreme (lockdown). The composition consists of a series of videos of mundane situations, embedded in the borders of Leda Vanevaʼs living room 3d scan.
Read more »"Sometimes the greatest victories happen on the sidelines.” When unexpected storm threatens a Finnish artist’ installation, an assist comes from an unlikely group all too familiar with weathering the perfect storm: The children of illegal immigrants in exile in Rome.
Read more »In his extensive career, Oliver Whitehead (b.1947) has worked with multiple forms of art – painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture and video, to name a few. We discussed a few of his video works and the themes he likes to… Read more »
Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen’s work Complaints Choir (2006) will be displayed by VIDEOGUD in Sweden from November 12 to December 2. VIDEOGUD works to make video art available to the general public, by displaying video works in video stations… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) continues its tour of festivals across Europe, having been selected for VERZIÓ International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Hungary and Festival dei Popoli in Italy. At VERZIÓ, the film is part of the Archive… Read more »
Stolen existence is a short essay on the ontology of images. It is a triptych which shows pictures of people in small heptagon shape Cafe Mutteri in Helsinki.
Read more »This time-lapse video is part of the project "Performing with Plants". I sat on an alder stub in Kaivopuisto Park in Helsinki in 2017, between 12 January and 17 December, all in all 100 times. I recorded the sessions and edited them into a video that contains one minute of each session.
Read more »Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) received the Best of Fest and the Best Documentary Awards at Aesthetica Short Film Festival in York, UK. The Best of Fest Award is the main award of the festival and includes £1,000 in prize… Read more »
A video about the expressive power of hands. The darkness and light of the studio surrounding help to create a situation where the hands could be brought apart from the rest of the body to show the poetry, quality and sensitivity of their movement.
Read more »Love letter is a series of one minute video performances speculating the difficulty in admitting or expressing one’s affection towards the other. Sometimes difficult things are easier to shout than whisper.
Read more »Roberts’ and Rainio’s To Teach a Bird to Fly (2020) will be screened at Alcine Festival in Spain. The film is competing for the European Short Film Audience Award (ESFAA). Alcine Festival is one of the 10 festivals around Europe… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’ Waste No. 5 The Raft of the Medusa (2017) will be screened in Casa do Cinema Manoel de Oliveira, part of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art. The film was included in the Social Ecology? film programme, held… Read more »
Iona Roisin’s Muistatko (A Method) (2019) was selected for the OVNI competition at Brest Short Film Festival in Brest, France. Brest Short Film Festival is held online from November 10 – 15. In ‘Muistatko (a method)‘ a singer attempts to… Read more »
Niina Suominen’s What Time Is? (2020) and Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) were selected to be screened at Aesthetica Short Film Festival. What Time Is? is part of the Experimental 2 -program, and The Fantastic is part of the Documentary… Read more »
A dark pair of hands appears in the black image. The character dips its hand into the white paint and paints a paint dripping circle to the foreground of the image. Hand continues to paint the circles. Gradually, as the character crawls backwards, the painted rings form a three-dimensional white tunnel.
Read more »Carnivalesque and hairy. A fantastical escapade, unrestrained and free from disgust. Detached human leg hair march across the screen in the name of liberation from beauty standards.
Read more »Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) was selected to be screened at Message to Man International Film Festival, held from November 3 – 8 in St. Petersburg, Russia. It was also selected for the International Competition at Winterthur International Short Film… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’ Waste No. New York, New York (2019) was selected to be screened at the 62nd Nordic Film Days Lübeck. The film is part of the “Alienation” programme, screened on November 4 at 22:15. Nordic Film Days Lübeck is… Read more »
Marja Helander’s short film Suodji (2020) was awarded with the Award for Innovation in Storytelling at ImagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival, held from October 20 – 25 in Toronto, Canada. Suodji is an adaptation of an old story from… Read more »
Stop motion animation about a forgotten van. Odometer is not running anymore but it does not mean it would not move.
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