Marja Helander’s Eatnanvuloš Lottit – Birds in the Earth (2018) won The Kent Monkman Award for Best Experimental Work at ImagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival, held in Toronto from October 17–21. Awarded with Risto Jarva prize and the main prize… Read more »
Liinu Grönlund’s To the Unknown in the competition of Jihlava International Documentary FF
Liinu Grönlund’s To the Unknown (2017) will have its Czech premiere in the international competition of the 22nd Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, held from October 25–30. Gröndlund’s film will be screened in the competition programme “A Testimony on Nature“, on Friday,… Read more »
Antti Tanttu’s Qualia competes at Fredrikstad Animation Festival
Antti Tanttu’s Qualia (2017) was selected in the Nordic-Baltic Competition of Fredrikstad Animation Festival, held in Norway from October 25–28. Qualia will be screened in the Competition Programme 1, on Thursday, October 25, at 16:30, and on Saturday, October 27,… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s On Destruction and Preservation at Corsica.Doc & Festival dei Popoli
Maija Blåfield’s On Destruction and Preservation (2018) will be screened at the 12th Corsica.Doc, held from October 24–28, and at the 59th Festival dei Popoli – International Documentary Film Festival, held from November 3–10 in Florence, Italy. In Corsica, Blåfield’s mid-length… Read more »
Elina Oikari’s Govadas & Risto-Pekka Blom’s Interceptor compete at Curtacinema, Brasil
Elina Oikari’s Govadas (2018) and Risto-Pekka Blom’s Interceptor (2018) were selected for the international competition of Curtacinema – Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, held from October 24–31. Elina Oikari’s Govadas will be screened in the International Competition 1, on… Read more »
Meet the Artist: Minna Långström
Minna Långström (b. 1974) is a Finnish media artist and filmmaker, whose works include 3D animations, short films and participatory installations. “I cannot help thinking spatially, but there are some things that can be expressed better in the linear form… Read more »
Elina Oikari’s, Marja Helander’s, and Jonna Kina’s short films compete at Uppsala ISFF
Marja Helander’s Eatnanvuloš Lottit – Birds in the Earth (2018), Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene (2017), and Elina Oikari’s Govadas (2018) were selected in the international competition of the 37th Uppsala International Short Film Festival, held from October 22–28 in Sweden…. Read more »
Sami van Ingen’s Flame awarded with the Grand Prix at Split Film Festival
Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) was awarded with the Grand Prix in the short film competition of Split Film Festival, held from October 4–12 in Croatia. The Jury states: “A celebration of a fortunate accident – discovery of a nitrate… Read more »
Mika Taanila’s exhibition The End at STUK Arts Center, Leuven
Mika Taanila’s exhibition The End is open at STUK Arts Center, Leuven, until December 16 2018. For his solo exhibition in STUK, the museum selected four works providing an insight into Taanila’s practice. The large triple-screen installation The Most Electrified Town… Read more »
Hotel President
Elina Oikari
New work
Hotel President opens a multifaceted view to a centrally located four-star hotel in Berlin that is currently used to accommodate asylum seekers. The short film includes interviews with asylum seekers, whose thoughts are contrasted with portraits of presidents, prime ministers and other politicians who seem to be giving the... Read more »
Somnivm
Jonna Kina
New work
Relations between anarchism and the marble industry in the quarries of Carrara, in Italy, the chopped mountains, sculpted in time, lost traces of human activity, are present in the seemingly documentary film work. The absence created by the acts of erasing almost all the quarry equipments relating to the contemporary... Read more »
Seeing
Alisa Javits
New work
Seeing speaks about aging and tries to reveal the person under the wrinkled, old skin. It can be hard to see the human behind it, because age is such a strong category. Work is a combination of memories, separate images, flashbacks and the voice-over. It is not a portrait of one person, rather a contemplation on... Read more »
Glitter Dreams
Alisa Javits
New work
Images flowing in the work are like sporadic, recurring mental images with seemingly nothing in common. The work is not about glitter, rather, it is a metaphor. It ponders over trying, daring and things which people choose to have in their lives and to which they can return.
Read more »Gimme Winter and You Can Keep the Rest
Leena Lehti
New work
Experimental film about love, winter, passion, and obsessive proceeding. Animations are scratched directly on 8mm film.
Read more »Distance
Leena Lehti
New work
Experimental film about distance. Originally filmed on BW super8-film. "responsibilities are few: to leave a beauteous trace, / pick a stone from the water" (K. Wallin)
Read more »Eclipse
Kati Roover
New work
Eclipse is a collage-like body of work about different ways of knowing. Scientific and indigenous knowledges side by side. The gap between different knowledges marked by the long history of colonisation. The film material is an anthropology film about Batak dances from Indonesia and Nasa footage about total sun... Read more »
threshold. boundary.
Leena Lehti
New work
"I close my eyes. I breathe the wasteland, asphalt, area plan. The fir-trees I breathe, the years." The lyric video combines poetry and cine film material and discusses identity, memories and the overlapping layers of different eras in a person’s life.
Read more »Risto-Pekka Blom’s Interceptor & Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene compete at Festival de Cine de Madrid
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene (2017) and Risto-Pekka Blom’sInterceptor (2018) were selected in the international competitions of Festival de Cine de Madrid FCM-PNR, held from October 11–23. Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene will be screened in the international short film competitions… Read more »
Antti Tanttu’s Qualia & Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth at Konstanzer kurz.film.spiele
Antti Tanttu’s Qualia (2017) and Marja Helander’s Eatnanvuloš lottit – Birds in the Earth (2018) are screened at Konstanzer kurz.film.spiele, held from October 20–21. Both films will be screened on Saturday, October 20, at 20:10. Antti Tanttu’s blackboard animation Qualia seeks for the essence of… Read more »
Juha van Ingen’s Hello Everybody at the Paris Festival for Different and Experimental cinema
Juha van Ingen’s Hello Everybody (2017) will be screened at the Paris Festival for Different and Experimental cinema, held for the 20th time from October 3–14. The festival is organised by Collectif Jeune Cinéma. The screening of van Ingen’s experimental… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene screened at Festifreak FF, Buenos Aires
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene (2017) will be screened at Festifreak – Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de La Plata, held from October 11–21 in Buenos Aires. Kina’s experimental short film will be screened on Tuesday, October 16, at 23:00. Awarded… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 3 Boom & Risto-Pekka Blom’s Interceptor compete at dokumentART FF
Risto-Pekka Blom’s Interceptor (2018) and Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 3 Boom (2017) were selected for the international competition of dokumentART film festival, held from October 17–21 in Neubrandenburg. Both films are screened on Friday, October 19; Blom’s in the Competition Programme… Read more »
Salla Tykkä’s exhibition Short Titles at Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest, until January 6, 2019
Salla Tykkä’s exhibition Short Titles is open in Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest, from October 6 2018 to January 6 2019. Salla Tykkä began her career in the mid-1990s. Her short films have been shown not only at international exhibitions but also… Read more »
Sami van Ingen’s Flame competes at Riga International Film Festival
Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) was selected for the international short film competition of Riga International Film Festival, held from October 18–31. Flame is included in the Competition Screening 1, screened on Wednesday, October 24, at 18:30 in Kino Bize…. Read more »
Sami van Ingen’s Flame won the Videorama award for the best experimental film at Timishort FF
Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) was awarded with Videorama award for the best experimental film at Timishort Film Festival, held from October 3–7 in Romania. Flame is a fractured melodrama, based on damaged frames from the last minutes of the only… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Saladdin Castique awarded with the special mention by the youth jury at Curtocircuito FF
Anssi Kasitonni’s Saladdin Castique (2018) was awarded with the special mention by the youth jury at Curtocircuíto International Short Film Festival, held from September 29 to October 7 in Santiago de Compostela. Previously, Saladdin Castique was awarded with a Special Mention at the 64th International… Read more »
Ewa Górzna’s, Sami van Ingen’s, Antti Tanttu’s, & Timo Wright’s short films compete at Split FF
Ewa Górzna’s Collapse (2017), Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018), Antti Tanttu’s Qualia (2017), and Timo Wright’s Ex Nihilo (2017) were selected for the short film competition of Split Film Festival, held from October 4–12 in Croatia. Górzna’s and Tanttu’s films… Read more »
Dossier of Tentacular
Tuomas A. Laitinen
New work
Dossier of Tentacular is a knotty and tragicomic organism that explores the techniques behind information production and dissemination, as well as ecological change and issues related to neoliberal language. The visual form of the work is reminiscent of a notebook whose pages become filled with pictures, diagrams and notes.... Read more »
Monument of Distance
Azar Saiyar
New work
Googoosh, a popular and loved iranian-azerbaijani singer, performs a version of the song Ayrılıq – Separation. The performance is from 1970s television show and it has been copied several times from one videotape to another. Ayrılıq could be a love song but it is told that composer Ali Salimi (who had migrated... Read more »
I Am Neuter
Nina Lassila
New work
Neutrum is a latin adjective meaning neither masculine or feminine. In this video we see a person talking to the camera in French. It is obvious that French is not her native language. She talks about the difficulties one faces being a stranger, the other. It is important to learn languages but is it possible to integrate... Read more »