Mika Taanila’s Thank You for The Music – A Film about Muzak (1997) will be screened from 25-30.11 at Tabakalera Center for Contemporary Culture in San Sebastián, as part of the programme Emotional. Around 160 million people around the world… Read more »
Artor Jesus Inkerö and Aurora Reinhard contribute to RE/defining Masculinities
Aurora Reinhard’s Boygirl (2002) and Artor Jesus Inkerö’s Swole (2017) are included in the programme RE/defining Masculinities from November 27–30, in Brussels, Belgium, in collaboration with the Beursschouwburg arts centre. The programme also includes Inkerö’s new performance, Score. RE/defining Masculinities… Read more »
What Time Is?
Niina Suominen
New work
The essence of our time under the magnifying glass. The starting point was to create a visually interesting and intense, kaleidoscopically abundant work that could be set together with the pioneering electric composition of Jukka Ruohomäki (1947-2022). The sound material was created in 1970 with the DIMI-synthesizer... Read more »
108 Beats
Sophia Ehrnrooth
New work
108 Beats (2018) is a single-channel video, in which various footballs float against a black background, pulsing to the rhythm of a heartbeat. All the footballs shown have been donated by junior football clubs in the Helsinki area. Each worn ball has had a football-loving heart practicing and dreaming with it. Number 108... Read more »
Waste no.6 How Great
Jan Ijäs
New work
Before, we would stick our photos in cardboard albums, keep our letters and other correspondence safely tucked away and display our music and movies on our bookshelves. Now that same data sits on our phones and computer hard drives and lurks on a cloud. That cloud is usually portrayed as blue against white... Read more »
Elina Oikari’s Govadas will be screened at Gijon International Film Festival
Elina Oikari’s Govadas (2018) will be screened at the Gijon International Film Festival, held from November 15–23 in Gijon, Spain. Govadas is included in the “Llendes” programme, screened on Wednesday, November 20, at 20:00, and on Thursday, November 21, at… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Sakke at Ljubljana International Film Festival
Anssi Kasitonni’s Sakke (2018) will be screened at the 30th Ljubljana International Film Festival, held from November 13–24. Part of the selection for the Europe in Short 2 -programme, Sakke will be screened Monday, November 18, at 21:00 in Kinodvor… Read more »
Special Mention for Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker at the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Bilbao – Zinebi 61
Pilvi Takala’s short film The Stroker (2019) was awarded with a special mention at the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Bilbao – Zinebi 61, held from November 8–15 in the Basque Country, Spain. The Stroker is based on… Read more »
Marjo Viitala’s Mirror and Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker screened at the 33th Braunschweig International Film Festival
Marjo Viitala’s Mirror (2019, in featured image) and Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker (2019) were selected for the 33th Braunschweig International Film Festival, held from November 19–24 in Germany. The Stroker will be screened in the programme “Different Touch” on Friday,… Read more »
Carolin Koss’s Copper Mountains at Festival Mente Locale
Carolin Koss’s Copper Mountains (2018) was selected for the sixth edition of Festival Mente Locale, held in Vignola (Modena) and Valsamoggia (Bologna), from November 13–17. Copper Mountains will be screened on Saturday, November 16, at 16:30 in Teatro Cantelli, Vignola. During… Read more »
Jaakko Pallasvuo’s, Azar Saiyar’s, and Pilvi Takala’s videos at Kasseler Dokfest
Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker (2019), Azar Saiyar’s Monument of Distance (2018), and Jaakko Pallasvuo’s Heterosexual Love Story (2018) will be shown at the 36th Kasseler Dokfest held from 12-17 November in Kassel, Germany. Pilvi Takala‘s The Stroker will be screened… Read more »
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth screened at Brest Short Film Festival
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth, recently screened at the konstazer kurz.film.spiele, will be shown at Brest Short Film Festival held from November 12–17. Birds in the Earth is selected as part of the UFO Competition and will be shown… Read more »
The Stroker screened at International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao & Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival
Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker (2019) is screened at International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao from November 8-15 and Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival from November 6-10. At International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, The… Read more »
Patrik Söderlund’s Realms screened at Reggio Film Festival
Patrik Söderlund’s Realms (2018) will be screened at Reggio Film Festival, held from November 5–18 in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Realms will be screened in the short film programme “Earth Section” on Tuesday, November 12, at 21:00 in Teatro San Prospero…. Read more »
Johanna Lecklin’s and Pilvi Takala’s short films at Aesthetica Short Film Festival
Johanna Lecklin’s Not Just a Matter of Passion (2019) and Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker (2019) are included in the selection of the Aesthetica Short Film Festival, held in York, England, from November 6-10. Johanna Lecklin‘s Not Just a Matter of Passion… Read more »
Saara Ekström’s Body All Eyes & Sami van Ingen’s Flame at Festival Instants Vidéo
Saara Ekström’s Body All Eyes (2018) and Sami van Ingens Flame (2018) are included in the selection of the Festival Les Instants Vidéo, held in Marseilles, France, from October 24 to December 31. Both Body All Eyes and Flame are… Read more »
Minna Långström’s The Other Side of Mars awarded at Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Minna Långström’s documentary film The Other Side of Mars (2019) was awarded at the 23rd Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, held from October 24–29 in Czech Republic. Långström’s film won the main award of its competition selection “A Testimony on… Read more »
Elli Vuorinen’s Still Lives awarded the Golden Gunnar Grand Prix at Fredrikstad Animation Festival
Elli Vuorinen’s Still Lives won the Golden Gunnar Grand Prix at the Fredrikstad Animation Festival, held 24-27.10 in Fredrikstad, Norway. The Jury states: “The winning film is in equal parts funny, sacral and contemplative. Dancing between modernity and history, it… Read more »
AV-arkki presents a showcase on the latest generation of the Finnish Artists’ Moving Image in St. Petersburg
AV-arkki presents a lecture and a showcase on the latest generation of the Finnish artists’ moving image in St. Petersburg on Saturday, November 2. The event is part of the screening programme hosted by the New Holland Island International Debut… Read more »
Meet the Artist: Reija Meriläinen
The latest AVEK Award laureate, Reija Meriläinen (b.1987), works with moving image, sculpture and installation. She is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts, and her work often explores social dynamics and power. We discuss her work Survivor, and… Read more »
Laura Horelli’s Namibia Today and Uutisten aika in an exhibition in Katutura, Namibia
Two works by Laura Horelli, Namibia Today (2018) and Uutisten aika (2019) are shown in an exhibition Changes in Direction. The exhibition is open until October 25 in JMAC Gallery, College of the Arts, KCAC, Katutura, Namibia. In Namibia Today, the… Read more »
Films by Minna Långström, Milja Viita, and Saara Ekström & Eero Tammi compete at Ji.hlava IDFF
Minna Långström’s The Other Side of Mars (2019), Milja Viita’s The Enemy Within Me (2019), and Saara Ekström’s & Eero Tammi’s Biblion were selected for competition programmes of the 23rd Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, held from October 24–29 in… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 2 Wreck screened at Uppsala International Short Film Festival
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 2 Wreck (2016) is screened at the 38th Uppsala International Short Film Festival, held from October 21–27 in Sweden. Ijäs’s short documentary film is included in the theme programme “Breaking the Wall“, screened on Wednesday, October… Read more »
Absolute Street
Jan Ijäs
New work
Samuel Beckett made a single work for projected cinema. The film was shot in New York in the summer of 1964. Beckett needed one exterior street scene for the opening of the film. He wanted that street image to be shot in street that he described as ”absolute street”. All images in this film are from streets... Read more »
Akiya
Jonna Kina
New work
In Akiya, a reel-to-reel tape recorder plays a song that tells a contemporary story of the increasing number of abandoned houses and buildings in Japan in the ancient style of Noh, a traditional Japanese theatrical form. The work does not show images of uninhabited buildings, but serves as a conceptual starting point for... Read more »
If Your Heart Wants It (Remix)
Pilvi Takala
New work
Taking place annually in Helsinki, SLUSH is a three-day super event that aims to invigorate the tech-startup community by bringing together entrepreneurs with venture capitalists in a party-like environment. If your heart wants it (remix) is grounded in research Takala conducted at the 2018 edition of SLUSH. Together... Read more »
Rainy Day in Rekdal - Grey Day in Rekdal
Annette Arlander
New work
The two-channel installation consists of two attempts at spending time together with a downy birch on the shore in Rekdal, Lofoten, on 19 July 2017 for a moment in rain and on 20 July 2017 for a day once every hour, beginning at 10 am and finishing 10 pm. The notes written during the day are added as a voice-over, as... Read more »
A Dream That Came True? Part II
Sepideh Rahaa
New work
A Dream That Came True? is an ongoing long-term project initiated in year 2016, with multiform media productions resulting from artistic investigation and research. The project brings together personal narrations of everyday life and of migration from perspective of women in Finland who have also Southwest Asian and... Read more »
In Transition
Sepideh Rahaa
New work
In Transition is a poetic and metaphorical approach to the concepts of migration, womanhood and resistance intertwined with identity and dreams through the act of knitting together an indirect dialogue between two women who have never met. They attempt to self-position and to explore their roots and to find the higher... Read more »
Delete All Duplicates
Thomas Westphal
New work
A group of people was filmed in the process of sorting out screws of various sizes. The protagonists are visible only by their arms entering the designated area from all sides. Each arm has an individual style and pace of picking. Eventually the hundreds of screws disappear. The banal and hypnotic event touches on how... Read more »