Abandoned Land is an experimental video that documents abandoned places, infrastructure and phenomena in Finland. The video uses Finland as an allegory to approach recent changes of the European infrastructure and society with haunting images, prosaic narration and music.
Read more »Minispectacles Squatting reveals the hot tips for the design and decor.
Read more »Addressing the cultural and political aspects of urban air in Beijing, the installation draws on interviews and dialogues with locals, on existing aerial imaginaries and on new technoscientific representations of air.
Read more »A man walks in the forest and tries to find berries. He finds instead an empty French salad dressing bottle. A genie comes out of the bottle and grants the man three wishes. The man uses the wishes traditionally but he uses bad language all the time and the genie does not like it. The man is going to learn a lesson.
Read more »Five short documentary films from Jan Ijäs’s ongoing Waste series are screened at Watch Docs International Film Festival. Held from December 7–14 in Warsaw, the festival focuses on human rights in film. The screenings of Ijäs’s “Waste” films take place… Read more »
Anikó Kuikka is awarded with The Next Thing Award for her video Anki Under (2016). The work will be shown alongside works of nine other next generation moving image artists in the Moving Image Gallery, Bury Art Museum & Sculpture… Read more »
Two short documentaries from Jan Ijäs’s ongoing Waste series, Money and Wreck, are screened at international film festivals in Spain and France during November. Waste no. 1 Money (2017) is screened at the 55th Gijón International Film Festival, held from… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene (2017) and Hannaleena Hauru’s The Ice Hockey Film by Heidi (2017) are screened at International Short Film Festival Berlin (Interfilm), held from November 20–26. Awarded as the best Nordic short film at Nordisk Panorama,… Read more »
Timo Wright’s Ex Nihilo (2017) will be installed at IDFA DocLab. IDFA DocLab is a festival program for new media within the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, held from November 16–27. The mission of IDFA DocLab is to showcase interactive… Read more »
Emilia Ukkonen’s Story of Ned (2017), Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene (2017), and Pekka Sassi’s A Friend (2016) are screened at The Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival. The 33rd edition of the acknowledged festival is held from November 14–19…. Read more »
Mika Taanila’s The World (2017) and Jonna Kina’s Secret Words and Related Stories (2016) are included in this year’s edition of Lo Schermo dell’Arte Film Festival, held in Florence from November 15–19. The Italian premiere of The World takes place… Read more »
Video art by Pauliina Salminen and Minna Suoniemi is screened at Instants vidéo festival, held in Marseille from November 5–25. Established in 1988, the festival is dedicated to digital and poetic art. On Wednesday, November 15 at 17:15, the screening… Read more »
Elena Näsänen’s Whoosh (2016), Milla Moilanen’s Wanted (1998), Mika Taanila’s Optical Sound (2005) are included in the special programmes of Brest International Short Film Festival, held from November 7–12. Established in 1986, the festival is among the most important European… Read more »
Helena Öst‘s short documentary film A Home in Memory (2016) is screened at Nordic Filmdays Luebeck. Held from November 1–5, the festival is the only festival in Germany, and the only one in Europe, which is entirely devoted to the… Read more »
Pink Twins’ Overlook (2017) will be screened in November at two different film festivals in Seville and Quebec. Held from November 3–11 in Seville, Spain, Festival de Sevilla is dedicated to European cinema. Overlook will be screened in the special… Read more »
Mika Taanila’s The World (2017) and Henna-Riikka Halonen’s Placeholder (2017) are screened at the 36th Uppsala International Short Film Festival, held from October 23–29. The World is selected in the international competition programme “Eye Know“. The screenings take place on… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s Social Connection (2016) and Samuli Alapuranen’s Drag Me to Kempele (2017) were screened at kurz.film.spiele short film festival, held in Konstanz from October 21–22. The dialogue of Social Connection has been copied from online forums as is, with… Read more »
Miia Rinne’s Beautiful Confusion (2017) will have its international festival premiere at the 31st Braunschweig International Film Festival in the Green Horizons short film selection. Held from October 17–22, the filmfest is the oldest festival in Lower Saxony, Germany. The screening… Read more »
Haikala’s first solo show in V/MSP Gallery in Brussels premiers a video work Hamish and Eeva. It is a lens-based performance inspired by Welsh painter Gwen John’s (1876–1939) letters and notebooks. Those texts reminded Haikala the issues of loneliness and… Read more »
Held from October 12–20, The 17th Nice Short Film Festival “Un festival c’est trop court!” celebrates Finnish short films with a three-day Finnish Focus. The first screening, held on Friday, October 13, was dedicated to short films by young filmmakers,… Read more »
An extensive survey of work by Mika Taanila takes place at various cultural venues in London from October 16–22. Curated by Stanley Schtinter, an independent curator and filmmaker, the programme is the most complete international survey of Taanila’s practice to… Read more »