Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) will be screened at he 16th Bogotá Short Film Festival Bogoshorts, held from December 4–11 in Colombia. Flame is a fractured melodrama, based on damaged frames from the last minutes of the only remaining nitrate reel… Read more »
879 Heroes by Heart
Sophia Ehrnrooth
New work
879 Heroes by Heart is an installation about youth, fandom and identity. It shows four young boys competing in who remembers the most football-players by heart. The boys talk out of turn, they focus, they try their hardest. In the end each boy recalls over 200 names. How many names would you remember?
Read more »Dream of Championship
Sophia Ehrnrooth
New work
"Manuel Neuer, Medhi Benatia, Jérôme Boateng, Dante, Bernat…" This is not a FIFA tournament, but a competition on who can name the most football players by heart. Four boys are trying their hardest, and as the list goes on they start to struggle, it even looks like someone is losing his breath. In the... Read more »
Mika Taanila’s Optical Sound and The World at Leuven ISFF
Two short films by Mika Taanila, The World (2017) and Optical Sound (2005) will be screened at Leuven International Short Film Festival, held from December 1–8 in Belgium. The World is included in the programme The Labo 1, screened on… Read more »
First Person Shooter
Hanna Arvela
New work
The danger provided by the virtual reality refreshes two men who spend an evening playing computer games connected through a network.
Read more »Asylum
Hanna Arvela
New work
People exercising and discussing Tinder while ignoring global problems.
Read more »Veera
Hanna Arvela
New work
The oldest dolphin who lived in Finland spent most of her life in two concrete pools. In the film Veera she is shown as a woman locked up 24/7 in a two room apartment with her three colleagues working in the entertainment business.
Read more »Fracturen
Markus Renvall Tuomo Kangasmaa
New work
The Palmqvist Method, named after a Swedish scholar Sven Robert Palmqvist, is a common method to determine the fracture toughness for cemented carbides. Similarly, Renvall’s and Kangasmaa’s project examines the artistic and social fractures by means of music and video art. Experimental music video Fracture is... Read more »
Literal Translations
Anton Nikkilä
New work
An audio piece with on-screen texts that mixes old scriptures of Russian avant-garde art with atonal fields of sound, asymmetric synthetic rhythms and deadpan observations from a basement studio in Helsinki.
Read more »Meandering
Pasi Autio
New work
In Meandering, images show the environment through the eyes of someone who moves in forests, in meadows, and close by water. At times, the common sounds heard express a life of their own, creating music-like entities. The sounds portray the concrete environment as well as the wanderer’s reality, where the lines... Read more »
Nearness
Leena Lehti
New work
Nearness is an essay about motherhood, closeness and existence. The film contemplates on presence. Phenomena such as childhood and memories can be present and at the same time out of reach and untouchable.
Read more »Two Hundred Miles
Anneli Nygren
New work
Love song for old home town and new love.
Read more »Mox Mäkelä’s Host Sapiens screened at Swedenborg Film Festival
Mox Mäkelä’s Host Sapiens (2018) was screened at Swedenborg Film Festival, held in November 23, in the Swedenborg Society, London. Mox Mäkelä’s Host Sapiens is an experimental ecocritical video art poem. “Mass extinction is here. Our plate will be soon bigger than… Read more »
Sami van Ingen’s Flame at PÖFF Shorts
Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) is screened at the International Short Film and Animation Festival PÖFF Shorts, held in Tallinn from November 20–28. Flame is included in the programme “Rebels With a Cause“, screened on Friday, November 23, at 20:30,… Read more »
Jaakko Pallasvuo’s Heterosexual Love Story at Close-Up Film Centre
Jaakko Pallasvuo’s Heterosexual Love Story (2018) is screened at Close-Up Film Centre‘s November Film Festival, held from November 22–24. Pallasvuo’s short film is included in the screening 4, on Friday, November 23, at 20:30. In Heterosexual Love Story, the filmmaker… Read more »
Jukka Silokunnas’s Vanishing Point competes at Amarcort FF
Jukka Silokunnas’s Vanishing Point competes at Amarcort Film Festival, held from November 14–18 in Rimini. Vanishing Point is included in the competition of experimental short films, Gironzalon, screened on Friday, November 16, at 18:30. Vanishing Point portrays the visage of decomposition… Read more »
Laura Horelli’s Namibia Today screened at Exground Filmfest
Laura Horelli’s Namibia Today (2018) will be screened at Exground Filmfest, held from November 16–25 in Wiesbaden, Germany. Namibia Today is included in the short film programme Colonial, screened on Saturday, November 24, at 15:00 in Caligari FilmBühne. Namibia Today premiered at… Read more »
Saara Ekström’s solo exhibition Amnion at Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo
Saara Ekström’s solo exhibition Amnion is open at the Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, from November 3–23. Amnion is a thin membrane forming a fluid filled sac, which provides protection for the developing embryo. Landfill sites on the fringes of cities are… Read more »
Special Mention for Jukka Silokunnas’s Vanishing Point at Alter-Native ISFF
Jukka Silokunnas’s Vanishing Point (2017) was awarded with the Special Mention of the Jury in the international competition of Alter-Native Film Festival, held from November 7–11, Targu Mures, Romania. Vanishing Point portrays the visage of decomposition playing out in unreal time. “When I… Read more »
Life As It Flees
Rita Jokiranta
New work
The work is a multichannel video installation that can only be seen as episodic fragments. The installation is inspired by a short story "The Adventure of a Photographer" by Italo Calvino, and the title, referring to the difficulty of catching the real life in images, is a quotation from the short story.
Read more »Meet the Artist: Rita Jokiranta
Rita Jokiranta is known for her installations that use water as a symbol – but essentially, her art focuses on the dynamic between the image and the viewer’s interpretation of it. Her new, puzzle-like installation In the Minds of Others deals… Read more »
Special Mention for Minna Rainio’s & Mark Roberts’s They Came in Crowded Boats and Trains at FrontDoc
Minna Rainio’s and Mark Roberts’s They Came in Crowded Boats and Trains was awarded with a Special Mention of the Youth Jury. The Jury lauded the film for its touching story, topical theme, and appealing scenographic and cinematographic realisation. FrontDoc International… Read more »
Minna Rainio’s and Mark Roberts’s They Came in Crowded Boats and Trains at FrontDoc and Reggio FF
Minna Rainio’s and Mark Roberts’s They Came in Crowded Boats and Trains travels the Italian film festivals. It will be screened on Friday, November 9, at FrontDoc International Documentary Film Festival, held from November 6–10 in Aosta, and on Sunday,… Read more »
Short films by Maija Blåfield, Marja Helander, Simo Saarikoski, and Minna Rainio & Mark Roberts screened at Aesthetica SFF
Four short films by AV-arkki’s artists Maija Blåfield, Marja Helander, Simo Saarikoski, and Minna Rainio and Mark Roberts were selected for the programme of Aesthetica Short Film Festival, held from November 7–11. Aesthetica Short Film Festival is a leading BAFTA-Qualifying… Read more »
Risto-Pekka Blom’s, Mox Mäkelä’s, and Timo Wright’s art at Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille
Risto-Pekka Blom’s Interceptor (2018), Mox Mäkelä’s Host Sapiens (2018), and Timo Wright’s Ex Nihilo (2018) were selected in the programme of the 31st Festival Les Instants Vidéo, held from November 9 – December 2 in Marseille, France. Risto-Pekka Blom’s Interceptor is a short… Read more »
Antti Tanttu’s Qualia at Cinanima International Animated FF, Portugal
Antti Tanttu’s Qualia will be screened at Cinanima – International Animated Film Festival of Espinho, held from November 12–18 in Portugal. Qualia is included in the screening of contemporary Finnish animation, screened in collaboration with Turku Animated Film Festival on Wednesday,… Read more »
Henna-Riikka Halonen’s Placeholder at InScience – International Science Film Festival Nijmegen
Henna-Riikka Halonen’s Placeholder (2017) is screened at InScience, International Science Film Festival Nijmegen, held from November 7–11 in Netherlands. Placeholder is included in the short film screening “AI – Artificial Identities“, screened on Thursday, November 8, at 16:30, and on… Read more »
Jukka Silokunnas’s Vanishing Point competes at Alter-Native FF, Romania
Jukka Silokunnas’s Vanishing Point (2017) was selected for the international competition of Alter-Native Film Festival, held from November 7–11, Targu Mures, Romania. The screening of Vanishing Point takes place on Saturday, November 10. Vanishing Point portrays the visage of decomposition playing out… Read more »
Sami van Ingen’s Flame at the 60th Nordische Filmtage Lübeck
Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) will be screened at the 60th Nordische Filmtage Lübeck, held from October 30 – November 4. Flame is included in programme “Periskop”, screened on Friday, November 2, at 22:15, and on Saturday, November 3, at 10:00…. Read more »
Mika Taanila’s and Diego Bruno’s films at Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento, Buenos Aires
Mika Taanila participates in the group exhibition “What To Do / Despite It All” at Muntref – CAC – Hotel Inmigrantes in Buenos Aires, Argentina 1.–11.11.2018. The show is part of BIM – Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento, where… Read more »