An intimate video work that explores the body of the transgender artist, its formation and becoming to a material entity. The video contains nudity and closeups of genitals.
Read more »The work is a pastiche after Edgar Degas' painting La Toilette (1884–1886), where the girl brushing her hair is staring back at the painter.
Read more »Fatness is one of the most stigmatized physical features. The video studies the norms defining the stereotypical ideas of beauty. The video portrays how the flesh on the arms is moving slowly back and forth with movement.
Read more »The work deals with the themes of fitting in your own body, fitting into an idea of a great body and filling your Photo Booth with selfies. The video consists of images from an online clothing store that are mixed with videos of a person posing for the camera.
Read more »Jan Ijäs’s short documentary film Waste no. 5 The Raft of the Medusa (2018) was awarded with a honorable mention at On Art Film Festival, held in Poland. Held from June 21 to August 25, the festival is the biggest open… Read more »
“We live in the era of indolence, and people want to transfer that spiritual laziness over to art. In this case, I’m on a completely different planet.” Challenging traditional forms of art has defined Mox Mäkelä’s (b. 1958) work throughout her… Read more »
Seminar on Current Trends and the Future of Buying and Selling Media Art Location: Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum, Helsinki Time: Friday 19.10.2018, 10.00-16.00 The event is free of charge and will be held in English. Registration required. Media art presents unique challenges and… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 1 Money (2017) and Anssi Kasitonni’s Saladdin Castique (2018) are screened at Open-Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, held from August 16–20. Awarded with the first prize at Ciné de Huesca, Waste no. 1 Money documents the situation where the inflation… Read more »
Kati Roover’s video Blanc (2016) is included in the exhibition And Tomorrow And, open in Index, The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm. The exhibition is open from 25.8.–25.11. Roover’s new video art work, Coexistence (2018), will be screened on Sunday,… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene (2017) and Azar Saiyar’s Monument of Distance (2018) were selected for In Silico Experimental Short Film Competition of the 28th International Film Festival Message to Man, held in St. Petersburg from September 15–22. Awarded… Read more »
Ewa Górzna’s Collapse (2017) and Saara Ekström’s Amplifier (2017) were selected in the screening competition of the International Video Festival Videomedeja, held in Novi Sad, Serbia, from 31.8.–2.9. Collapse depicts a situation where a seemingly complete and established order is… Read more »
The installation is based on the classic movie under the same name by Terence Davies. As in the movie, the exhibition preserves memories and explores the effect time has on them. How do we remember people and events from our past and how time shapes our memories?
Read more »Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene (2017) was selected for three different competition series at Odense International Film Festival. Held from 27.8.–2.9.2018, Odense IFF is Denmark’s oldest film festival and an Oscar-qualifying short film festival. Arr. for a Scene is… Read more »
Risto-Pekka Blom’s Interceptor (2018) and Antti Tanttu’s Qualia (2017) will be screened at “the most Finnish film festival in Sweden”, YksiKaksiFilmi, held in Stockhom from September 14–16. The short film screening is scheduled for Saturday, September 15, at 17:00. Risto-Pekka… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Saladdin Castique (2018) and Anneli Nygren’s PaperBabes – Age of Reason (2017) are screened at Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, held from August 10–19 in Brazil. In Saladdin Castique, a man walks in the forest and tries to find… Read more »
Mox Mäkelä’s Host Sapiens (2018) and Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 1 Money (2017) were selected in the international competition “Glocal Propose” of the 18th Seoul International NewMedia Festival (NEMAF), held from August 15–24. Anu Pennanen’s Monument for the Invisible (2003)… Read more »
Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) will be screened at Sarajevo Film Festival, held from August 10–17. Flame is included in the programme European Shorts 3, screened on Tuesday, August 14, at 20:30 in Art Cinema Kriterion. Flame is a fractured melodrama,… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s short documentaries from the Waste series travel the world. Waste no. 1 Money (2017) was screened at Montenegro Film Festival, held from August 1–8 in Herceg Novi. It will also be screened at Piriapolis Film Festival, held in… Read more »
The animation film Help Me addresses President Urho Kekkonen's passing and the emergency of his political legacy. The work is set both in Helsinki of the 1980s and today. It is a misty depiction of the nightmarish environment of the post-deregulation Finland and of the era of Westernization.
Read more »Maija Blåfield’s On Destruction and Preservation (2018) will be screened at Twisted Oyster Film & New Media Festival, held in Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, from 20.7.–5.8. The festival is presented as an annually themed-based film and new media art… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene (2017) and Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) were selected in the international competition of EXiS – Experimental Film & Video Festival, held in Seoul from July 12–19. All screenings take place in the Korean Film… Read more »
Short films by Lauri Astala, Marja Helander, Mika Taanila, and Salla Tykkä are included in a rooftop screening of Finnish short films in Point Éphémère, Paris. The showcase is curated and presented by Clément Beraud and organized by Format Court…. Read more »
Marja Helander’s Risto Jarva awarded short film Eatnanvuloš lottit – Birds in the Earth (2018) will be screened at the 46th Dance on Camera Festival, held in New York from July 20–24. The screening of Helander’s short film takes place in Walter… Read more »
Axel Straschnoy (born in 1978 in Buenos Aires) is a visual artist who lives and works in Helsinki. How he became an artist is a long and winding story, but his artistic career began at a film school in Buenos… Read more »
Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) was awarded with special mention for short film in the international competition of Art Film Fest, held in Košice, Slovakia, from June 15–23. The jury communicated the following statement: “Scattered pieces of a lost film: images… Read more »
Pink Twins’ Overlook (2017) will be screened at Fest Anča International Animation Festival, held from 28.6.–1.7. in Žilina, Slovakia. The short animation is included in the programme Anča in Mordor 2, screened on Saturday, June 30, at 22:30 in Stanica: Container. Impossible… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Saladdin Castique (2018) is selected in the international competition of Tabor Film Festival, held from July 5–7 in Veliki Tabor Castle, Croatia. The film is included in the international competition programme “In the Realms of the Unreal“, screened… Read more »