New artists’ moving image in our online archive / July–September ’20
Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Elina Brotherus: Meaningless Work (2018, 25:17) After Walter de Maria, Meaningless Work, March 1960: “(…) By meaningless work I mean work which does not… Read more »
New installations in our online archive / July–September ’20
Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Clément Beraud: I Was Born (2020, 04:17) I was bornin the suburbs of Paris.In a middle class family.I grew up in the concrete.I’m 31… Read more »
The Problem of the Hydra
The Problem of the Hydra is an experimental documentary film about the practical and metaphysical problems a small fresh-water polyp, known as Hydra, has caused since the 1700s to the present day. Contrary to most animals, Hydra vulgaris does not age – at all.
Read more »Anywhere But Here
Liquidity
Petteri Cederberg’s Median Life and/or Death competes at Ottawa International Animation Festival
Petteri Cederberg’s Median life and/or death (2019) is competing in the Short Competition 8 programme at Ottawa International Animation Festival. OIAF is held online from 23 September – 4 October. The Short Competition 8 programme will be streamed live on… Read more »
Fog
ᶈenetralia
Vanitas
Diamond Belly
Diamond Belly explores love and companionship between a human artist, the bot and mosquitoes. The human offers their body as a nourishing 'baguette' to the diamond-bellied mosquitoes, envisioning the flies' bio-chemistry in complementary with their own haematic cycle.
Read more »Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 4 New York, New York in the documentary competition of Signes de Nuit Berlin
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 4 New York, New York (2019) was selected in the international documentary competition of Signes de Nuit Berlin, held from September 16–20 in Berlin. Ijäs’s short documentary film will be screened in the Program 2, on… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic screened at Guanajuato IFF, Mexico, and Lima Alterna, Peru
After the screening at Shorts Mexico, Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) continues its festival tour in the Latin America. It will be screened in the Official Selection of International Documentaries at Guanajuato International Film Festival, held from September 18–27 in… Read more »
Reflector of Living Will
Film tells about Maria, living with arthritis. She doesn’t like the rehabilitative attitude of her new care robot. One night Maria re-programs the robot to fulfill her true needs. The robot becomes her living will and protector against the violent behavior of personal assistants.
Read more »Canary
Every morning thousands of children go to school like canaries in a coal mine, measuring toxicity. The film deals with the chain of harassment and the way we all are broken in our own ways.
Read more »Panu Johansson’s Picturing a Micropolis 96100-97690 competing at That One Film Festival
Panu Johansson’s Picturing a Micropolis 96100-97690 (2018) is competing in the Competitive Program #1 at That One Film Festival, Indiana, USA. That One Film Festival is held as a livestream from September 11–12. The works of Competitive Program #1 will… Read more »
Elina Oikari’s Paris Diaries competing at Split Film Festival
Elina Oikari’s Paris Diaries (2019) is included in the programme at Split Film Festival, held in Split, Croatia from September 10–17. The work is competing in the Competition Shorts programme. It will be screened on September 16 at 18:45 (CET)…. Read more »
Pilvi Takala’s retrospective and two new films by Jan Ijäs at Nordisk Panorama
Nordisk Panorama has unveiled their full programme. The festival will operate as a hybrid of online and live screenings and events. The competition screenings will be available on the festival’s streaming platform, while the on-site events are held in collaboration… Read more »
Iona Roisin’s Muistatko (a method) screened at Leiden Shorts, The Netherlands
Iona Roisin’s Muistatko (a method) (2019) was selected for Leiden Shorts (Experimental @ Old School). Leiden Shorts is held from September 10–13 in Leiden, the Netherlands. The Experimental @ Old School section is screened from September 11–13 at 11:00-18:00 (CET)…. Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 4 New York, New York travels to Spain and Mexico
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 4 New York, New York (2020) was selected for Shorts Mexico (World Cinema Showcase) and Bueu International Short Film Festival FICBUEU (Experimental Section). Shorts Mexico is held from September 2–9 in Mexico while FICBUEU will be… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic awarded as the best short documentary at DOKER, Moscow
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) was awarded as the best short documentary at Moscow International Documentary Film Festival DOKER, held from August 21–30 in Russia. Recently, The Fantastic was also awarded with the Sliced Onion Award for the Best Short… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic awarded at MakeDox
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) won the Sliced Onion Award for the best short documentary film at MakeDox Creative Documentary Film Festival, held from August 19–26 in Macedonia. The Fantastic is a film about encountering the unknown and the relationship between… Read more »
Sini Pelkki’s Sheet No4 screened at Rencontres Internationales Berlin
Sini Pelkki’s Sheet No4 (2018) will be screened at Rencontres Internationales Berlin. The festival will be held as a hybrid of live events at Haus der Kulturen der Welt and online streamings from August 26–30. Sheet No4 will be screened… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 4 New York, New York and Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic screened at MakeDox
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 4 New York, New York (2019, in featured image) and Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) were selected for the Short Dox programme of MakeDox Creative Documentary Film Festival, held from August 19–26 in Macedonia. This year,… Read more »
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic screened in the competition of the online festival Mister Vorky
Jussi Eerola’s short film Blue Honda Civic (2020) is included in the short film competition “9413” of the online edition of the 7th Festival Mister Vorky, held in Russia from August 19–23. The second screening of the short film competition… Read more »
Short films by Vesa-Pekka Rannikko and Saara Ekström & Eero Tammi screened at Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival NEMAF
Vesa-Pekka Rannikko’s Multi-Faith Prayer Room (2020, in featured image) and Saara Ekström’s & Eero Tammi’s Biblion (2019) are included in the programme of Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival (NEMAF), held from August 20–28. Vesa-Pekka Rannikko’s Multi-Faith Prayer Room… Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s Monument of Distance screened at Festival Silhouette, Paris
Azar Saiyar’s Monument of Distance (2018) is included in the programme of the 19th Festival Silhouette, held in Paris from August 22–29. Last year, Monument of Distance won the Prix du Jury Hybride at the same festival. The film will… Read more »
Pilvi Takala’s, Mika Taanila’s, and Risto-Pekka Blom’s new titles in the competition of Nordisk Panorama
Nordisk Panorama has unveiled its competition selection. This year Nordisk Panorama will be a hybrid festival mixing online screenings with select in-person events in Malmö. Audiences in all five Nordic countries will have access to free streaming of the films… Read more »