Stream brings up dialogue between exterior and interior as well as between movement and stagnation. Sections related to the sea, airports and to the other public transports visualise movement and nostalgia of the universe while on the other hand the character is inside “doing nothing”.
Read more »Senses of a Blind is a photograph projection in which photos fades in and out and sometimes they are blinking faster. The work deals with thematics of seeing, hiding and appearance – and the relation in-between human and animal in dark landscapes and places. The sound consists of field recordings.
Read more »Hand drawn stop-motion animation that contemplates both the uniqueness and the averageness of humanity. If all the people of the world would be put together, and from that, a sort of average human made, what would that human be like?
Read more »Panu Johansson’s Picturing a Micropolis: 96100-97690 (2018) travels the world. Johansson’s experimental short film will be screened at Pugnant Film Series – This Is not a Robot Film Festival (October 5–6, Athens, Greece), Experimental Film Guanajuato (October 11–12, Guanajuato, México),… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s On the Art of the Set Design (2018) will be screened in the official Radar Competition at Curtocircuito Film Festival, held from September 28 to October 6 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Ijäs’s short documentary is included in… Read more »
Jaakko Pallasvuo’s Heterosexual Love Story (2018) will be screened at WNDX Festival of Moving Image, held from October 2–6 in Winnipeg, Canada. Heterosexual Love Story is included in the screening “Who Do You Love?“, screened on Friday, October 4 at… Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s Monument of Distance (2018) will be screened as a part of Tallinn Photomonth‘s film programme. The video is included in the screening “East from West“. The screening, curated by Ingel Vaikla, takes place on Wednesday, October 2, at… Read more »
Jonna Kina‘s first solo exhibition in Rome, “Objects and Sounds”, is open until November 20 in Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome. The exhibition is curated by Manuela Pacella. The project has received the patronage of the Finnish Embassy in Rome and has been… Read more »
Held in Paris from October 2–18, the Festival of Different and Experimental Cinemas presents two screenings of Finnish experimental shorts in collaboration with AV-arkki, FixC, and Institut Finlandais. The screenings have been curated by Kari Yli-Annala. Focus: Relations de pouvoir… Read more »
Sara Pathirane (born in 1985) works with video, installation and painting. She is agraduate of the Academy of Fine Arts, and her works often engage with the tradition of landscape painting. We discussed future projects, fictions of places, and the… Read more »
Premiered at IFF Rotterdam in January 2019, Patrik Söderlund’s short film Realms (2018) continues its successful film festival life. Recently, it was awarded for the best cinematography (by Jussi Eerola) at Arctic Film Festival, held in the worlds northernmost film… Read more »
Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker was awarded with Honourable Mention at Nordisk Panorama, held from September 19–24 in Malmö. The Jury states: “The film depict the discomfort of superficial intimacy when a strange concept is introduced in the workplace. A simple… Read more »
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth (2018) will be screened at Doha Film Institute, Qatar, in a joint screening with Lil’ Buck’s feature-length documentary film Real Swan (2019). The screening will take place on Monday, September 23, at 19:00. Birds… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s On the Art of the Set Design (2018) will be screened at DMZ Docs, held from September 20–27 in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. Ijäs’s short documentary is included in the programme DMZ Vision: Inter-Korea with a screening on Wednesday,… Read more »
Neurocinematic dive into surreal prophecy, where awareness of mankind reaches to the heavens.
Read more »There was no room for other animals in the ark. The only one left is the king of creation, the worst of all animals, human.
Read more »In the video C, a figure in a black costume of charcoal follows a circular route in a white space, leaving light marks on white paper. The fragile, hand-made charcoal costume covers the figure completely.
Read more »For You is a flow of images which hide a story about a girl who wants to learn skateboarding. The film can be interpreted in different ways, depending on the viewer’s background. It is a film about love, daring, loneliness and the warmth that exists around us even if we were physically alone.
Read more »A thorough showcase “Nordic Avant-Garde – Moving Images from the North”, including several treasures from AV-arkki’s archive, will be screened at International Film Festival Message to Man. The programme is curated by Swedish curator Martin Grennberger. IFF Message to Man… Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s Monument of Distance (2018) was awarded with the Prix du Jury Hybride at Festival Silhouette, held in Paris from August 30 to September 7. In Monument of Distance, Googoosh, a popular and loved iranian-azerbaijani singer, performs a version of… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s On the Art of the Set Design (2018), Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker (2019), and Elli Vuorinen’s Still Lives (2019) will be screened at Cairo Video Festival, held from September 9–30. Jan Ijäs’s On the Art of the Set… Read more »