Elli Vuorinen’s Still Lives continues its festival life. It was selected for the international competition of Fantoche International Animation Film Festival in the competition programme 1. Fantoche IAFF is held from September 3–8 in Baden, Switzerland. It is also included… Read more »
Housing Fair
Jaakko Pietiläinen
New work
The work is set in a typical suburban residential area, where all residents have evaporated. Autonomous home appliances, such as service robots, intelligent refrigerators, robotic lawnmowers and self-guided cars, consume their time, maintain their surroundings, and think back on the missing humans.
Read more »Archiving Ice
Renja Leino
New work
Sea Ice is melting. Ice blocks crack and move with waves. There is both silent visual beauty and horror of the ice and the sea surface. Slowly, the idea of the Climate Change starts to dominate this suggestive silent flow of images.
Read more »(swimmer)
Renja Leino
New work
Endless sound of the waves on an empty beach. A horizon. Suddenly a swimmer appears, swims out of sight, swims back as if there was nothing else in the world.
Read more »Helsinki Acts
Jan Ijäs
New work
During the Cold War, from 1967 to 1997, Helsinki served as a stand-in for various Russian/Soviet cities in a total of nine American feature films, mainly spy thrillers. Helsinki was chosen as the location as it would not have been possible to shoot the film inside the Soviet Union and Helsinki could easily be “dressed... Read more »
Sibelius
Jaakko Pietiläinen
New work
An experimental short film combining documentary and fiction follows Jaakko Pietiläinen's transformation into a reborn national composer Sibelius. The work deals with male artist myths and nationalism.
Read more »New documentary and live works in our online archive
Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Laura Horelli: Newstime (2019, 00:39:11) “Newstime” is a found footage film which discusses cultural differences, being an outsider, the Namibian independence struggle,… Read more »
Screening Relational Capacities kicks off the Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities in Bio Rex, September 9, 6:30 pm
AV-arkki, Frame Contemporary Finland, Amos Rex, and Saastamoinen Foundation present a collaborative screening Relational Capacities to kick off Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities, a six-day gathering taking place from September 9–14 in Helsinki. The screening, curated by Rachael Rakes, takes place… Read more »
Marja Viitahuhta’s and Azar Saiyar’s works in Gallery Kurant, Tromso
Azar Saiyar and Marja Viitahuhta take part with Ida Palojärvi in a group exhibition “While We Forget” in Gallery Kurant, Tromso, Norway. The exhibition is open from August 23 to September 8. While We Forget is a group exhibition bringing mixed-media… Read more »
Sasha Huber’s Space Race in a group exhibition at Ballarat International Photo Biennale, Australia
Sasha Huber’s Space Race is installed in a group exhibition To the Moon and Back, open from August 24 to October 20 in Ballarat Municipal Observatory and Museum, Australia. The exhibition is part of the core programme of Ballarat International… Read more »
Sampsa Virkajärvi’s What Remains? and With You in a group exhibition in Seoul Museum of Art
Two videos by Sampsa Virkajärvi, What Remains? (2018) and With You (2011–2018) are installed in a group exhibition Aging World: Will you still love me tomorrow? in Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea. The exhibition is open from August 27… Read more »
Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker selected for the BFI London Film Festival
Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker was picked for the short film programme of the 63rd BFI London Film Festival, held from October 2–13. Takala’s film is included in the screening “In an Age of Consent“, screened on Friday, October 4, at… Read more »
New experimental works in our online archive
Discover these recent acquisition in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Hanna Arvela: Bird’s-eye View (2019, 00:05:31) Exact words from artist interviews are mouthed by other professionals. Clément Beraud: Esthautomatisme sonore (2017, 00:05:57)… Read more »
New installations, animations and performative videos in our online archive
Discover these recent acquisition in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Installations Clément Beraud: Trees 2.0 (2018, 01:59) Everything disappears, one way or another. Will our environmental amnesia lead us to replace nature… Read more »
Carolin Koss’s Copper Mountains awarded with Donne Si Fa Storia award at Edera Film Festival
Carolin Koss’s documentary film Copper Mountains (2018) was awarded with Donne Si Fa Storia award at Edera Film Festival. The prize will be given at Venice Film Festival on Saturday, August 31. The Donne Si Fa Storia project offers an… Read more »
Meet the Artist: Marikki Hakola
Marikki Hakola (born in 1960) is a Finnish media artist who has worked with video for over 30 years, and is considered a pioneer of the field. We met at her studio in Hakaniemi where she was working on post-production… Read more »
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth screened at Sao Paulo ISFF
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth (2018) is screened at Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival, held from August 22–30. Helander’s short film is included in the special showcase of Finnish female filmmakers, “Women That Came from the Cold“, screened… Read more »
Orpokotijuhlat Saarella (01)
Lauri Ainala
New work
Black wind blown by a "god" is caressing wretched rodent's fur from eternity.
Read more »Sami van Ingen’s Flame screened at Concorto Film Festival, Italy
Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) is screened at Concorto Film Festival, held in Pontenure – Piacenza, Italy, from August 17–24. Flame is included in the screening UBIK_2, screened on Wednesday, August 21, at 00:30. Flame is a fractured melodrama, based on… Read more »
Sara Pathirane’s, Azar Saiyar’s, & Timo Wright’s short films at Rencontres internationales, Berlin
Sara Pathirane’s Holding Clouds (2018), Azar Saiyar’s Monument of Distance (2018), and Timo Wright’s Ex Nihilo (2018) are screened at Rencontres internationales, held in Berlin from August 20–25. The screenings with Pathirane’s, Saiyar’s, and Wright’s works take place in Haus… Read more »
Speech Karaoke
Speech Karaoke Action Group
New work
Speech Karaoke is a technological platform and an expanding catalogue of famous (and not so famous) speeches turned into karaoke versions. During hosted club events audience can choose freely from the 600 speeches and perform them for other audience members. For the 65th International Oberhausen Short Film Festival... Read more »
Short films by Elina Oikari, Johanna Lecklin, Pilvi Takala, & Teemu Mäki at Seoul International NewMedia Festival
Elina Oikari’s Govadas (2018), Johanna Lecklin’s Not Just a Matter of Passion (2019), Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker (2019), and Teemu Mäki’s How Many Genders Are There? (2018) will be screened at Seoul International NewMedia Festival, held from August 15–24 in… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s Somnivm in exhibitions in Tallinn and Tampere
Jonna Kina’s Somnivm (2018) is installed in exhibitions in Tallinn and Tampere. In Tallinn, it is included in the exhibition “Art Museum of Estonia 100. Open Collections: The Artist Takes the Floor“, in Kumu Art Museum until November 19. In… Read more »
Johanna Lecklin’s Not Just a Matter of Passion competes at Open Place ISFF, Latvia
Johanna Lecklin’s Not Just a Matter of Passion (2019) was selected for the international competition of Open Place International Short Film Festival, held in Rēzekne, Latvia, from August 14–18. Lecklin’s short film will be screened on Saturday, August 17, at… Read more »
Mox Mäkelä’s and Panu Johansson’s films screened at CineAutopsia, Colombia
Mox Mäkelä’s Strange (2018) and Panu Johansson’s Picturing a Micropolis: 96100-97690 (2018) will be screened at CineAutopsia Film Festival, held in Bogota, Colombia from August 13–23. The screening of Mäkelä’s Strange will take place on Wednesday, August 21, at 17:45… Read more »
Films by Laura Horelli, Pilvi Takala, and Elli Vuorinen selected for the competitions of Nordisk Panorama
Laura Horelli’s Uutisten aika (2019), Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker (2019), and Elli Vuorinen’s Still Lives (2019) were selected for the competitions of Nordisk Panorama, held from September 19–24 in Malmö, Sweden. Laura Horelli‘s Uutisten aika competes for the Best Nordic… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s On the Art of the Set Design screened at Open-Air Filmfest Weiterstadt
Jan Ijäs’s On the Art of the Set Design (2018) will be screened at Open-Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, held from August 8–12 in Germany. Ijäs’s film will be screened on Saturday, August 10, in the short film programme starting at 13:00…. Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s Monument of Distance screened in Brazil, France, and Sweden
Azar Saiyar’s Monument of Distance (2018) will be screened at Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, held in Brazil from August 30 to September 8, at An Ordinary Day Film Festival, held in Stockholm, Sweden, from August 13–18, and at… Read more »
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth screened at Présence Autochtone – Montréal First Peoples Festival
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth (2018) is screened at Présence Autochtone – Montréal First Peoples Festival, held from August 6–14 in Canada. The screening of Birds in the Earth takes place on Saturday, August 10, at 20:30 in Cinéma… Read more »
Sami van Ingen and Milja Viita contribute to the 25th year celebration of Film Farm
The Independent Imaging Retreat or “Film Farm” was founded in 1994 by Toronto-based filmmaker and teacher Philip Hoffman. The week-long retreat has provided over 260 filmmakers with practice in hand-processing film. The 25th anniversary of Film Farm is celebrated with… Read more »