Minna Rainio’s and Mark Roberts’ Entangled (2016) is selected in the international competition of DokuMA Film Festival, held in Makarska, Croatia, from 30.5.–3.6. The film will be screened on Wednesday, May 31, at 21:15 in the garden cinema. Entangled illuminates our… Read more »
Inheritor
Harri Larjosto
New work
The human era – anthropocene – is relatively short as a geological period, but it has already had a tremendous impact on the planet's ecology. Inheritor is a story of man as a part of the continuum of life. It depicts a mystically beautiful vision of nature and of man's mark on it. Modern human follows certain... Read more »
W / M (mirror)
Kalle Nio
New work
The film shows two dancers, a man and a woman, in a theatrical setting. The image of their similar shaped bodies is cut in half and reflected by a double-sided mirror.... Read more »
Where the end starts, ''Where beginning ends''
Katarzyna Miron
New work
The project is an experimental video which tackles the human relationship with environment and society. The plot and the narration of the video are based on the simple situations performed by the male protagonist. Initially, the video shows an active man executing rhythmic physical work. Later, he is passive, lying on the... Read more »
Marcel
Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl
New work
A mourning-like video portrays the artist wearing a bright blue gymnastic suit. Pink balls appear around her body and little by little almost cover her. The image turns into a double mirror reflection. In the soundtrack, we can hear the bereft sound of a shakuhachi flute. The video ends with the artist’s face... Read more »
Rot-Weiss
Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl
New work
The naked performer walks two lines painted on the floor, red and white. The viewer is directed to focus on colour, movement, and sound. The sols get painted as well and merge the red in the white and vice versa. In the soundtrack, we can hear Japanese music. Between the lines, there is a monitor showing a... Read more »
Eye
Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl
New work
We see the tightly framed face of the artist. She seems to try to apply a contact lens in her eye, but keeps failing. She places the lens repeatedly on her eyelid. The video addresses the clinical plastic surgery and blepharoplasty. The horrifying-looking operation aims at beauty.... Read more »
Ars Bioarctica – fully funded Nordic/Baltic residencies 2017/18 – Open Call
Application deadline the 22nd of June 2017 Bioartsociety announces an open call for up to 3 fully funded Ars Bioarctica residencies during autumn 2017 and year 2018 in Kilpisjärvi.Bioartsociety invites applications from artists based in the Nordic and Baltic countries… Read more »
Milja Viita’s Q selected in the international competition of VideoEX, Zürich
Milja Viita’s Q (2016) is selected in the international competition of International Experimental Film & Video Festival Zurich (VideoEX). Held from May 20–28, VideoEX is Switzerland’s only festival dedicated to experimental film and video. The screenings of Q take place in Festivalkino… Read more »
Story of Ned
Emilia Ukkonen
New work
This is the story of Ned, an unusual cat in many ways. First encountered as a kitten, sold out of a cardboard box in a Tokyo department store, Ned traveled back and forth between the U.S. and Japan at least twice, perhaps even four times. The man who ended up with Ned never wanted him, and made several efforts to pass him... Read more »
Transparencies from the Past
Elina Saloranta
New work
The video shows glass-plate photographs projected onto a curtain, like magic-lantern slides. They were taken by the Finnish village photographer Frans Viljamaa in the 1910s or the 1920s. The soundscape is based on an old tape recording of a woman born in 1899 recalling the Finnish Civil War (1918).
Read more »Conversations with Vaccine-critical Parents
Kaisu Koski
New work
The documentary is based on interviews with vaccine-critical parents and their home videos in the Netherlands and Finland. It explores the health beliefs and concepts backgrounding the parents’ vaccine criticism, such as their understanding of the immune system and importance of illness in a child's development. The... Read more »
Helsinki-Tehran
Azar Saiyar
New work
Between places. Between people. Helsinki-Tehran is a cinematic study on immigration and memory – on the shared verbal and nonverbal knowledge and emotional understanding which travels with displaced people from one generation to another. The film uses various cinematic styles and techniques.
Read more »Pink Twins’ Overlook in the international competition of Annecy International Animated FF
Pink Twins’ Overlook (2017) will have its international festival premiere in the international competition of Annecy International Animated Film Festival, held in Annecy, France, from June 12–17. Established in 1960, the festival is one of the most important festivals dedicated… Read more »
Sasha Huber’s and Petri Saarikko’s Remedies – Rongoã installed in Tabakalera, San Sebastián
Sasha Huber’s and Petri Saarikko’s Remedies – Rongoã (2016) is installed in Tabakalera, San Sebastián from May 3–31. Tabakalera is an International Centre for Contemporary Culture. There is a long tradition for various methods for healing – the individual, the… Read more »
Emerald Green by Carolin Koss at Another Experiment by Women Film Festival, New York
Emerald Green by Carolin Koss will be screened in the World of Nature edition of Another Experiment by Women Film Festival, New York, on Tuesday, May 9. Koss will be present in the artist talk as well. The screening and the… Read more »
Milja Viita’s Q at European Animated Film Festival, New York
Milja Viita’s Q (2016) is screened at European Animated Short Film Festival, held in New York from May 9–11. Viita’s short film is included in the opening night programme “Borderland Surveyors“, curated by Holger Lang, Vienna based animation artist, filmmaker, producer… Read more »
Pink Twins’ retrospective at International Video Art Festival, Madrid
This year’s edition of International Video Art Festival (IVAHM) includes a retrospective of Pink Twins. The festival is held from May 10–21 in Museo Centro de Artes de Vanguardia La Neomudéjar. The retrospective, consisting of five works, takes place on Saturday,… Read more »
AV-arkki’s Screening at Oberhausen Short Film Festival
AV-arkki will present a distributor’s screening at Oberhausen Short Film Festival, held from May 11–16. AV-arkki’s screening is a compilation of recent short films in distribution and takes place on May 13 at 22:30 in Lichtburg Filmpalast Sunset. The titles… Read more »
Sami van Ingen’s live cinema & Pasi “Sleeping” Myllymäki’s short films at Image Forum Festival
Held from 29.4.–7.5. in Tokyo, this year’s edition of Image Forum Festival features Finnish experimental cinema. The first weekend of the festival includes a live cinema performance by Sami van Ingen on Sunday, April 30 at 18:45 in the Image Forum… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s Time Capsule at Trento Film Festival
Jan Ijäs’s Time Capsule (2016) is screened at Trento Film Festival. Held from 27.4.–7.5., the festival is one the oldest in Italy. Time Capsule is included in the “Sestogrado” section and the screening takes place on Tuesday, May 2, at… Read more »
Laura Horelli’s Jokinen at IndieLisboa, Portugal
Laura Horelli’s documentary film Jokinen (2016) will be screened in Silvestre Curtas selection of IndieLisboa. The festival is held from May 3–14. The screenings of Jokinen take place in Cinema São Jorge on Wednesday, May 3, at 21:30, and on… Read more »
Pekka Sassi, Jukka Silokunnas, Milja Viita, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Jari Kallio & Antti Jussila picked at EMAF
Four experimental video works from Finland were picked in the film programme of European Media Art Festival (EMAF), held in Osnabrück from April 26–30. EMAF is one of the most influential forums of international Media Art. The festival features Jaakko… Read more »
Placeholder
Henna-Riikka Halonen
New work
The video Placeholder comments on a thought experiment where virtual non-living material ( i.e. objects) transform into self-aware beings capable of imitating humane action, telling stories, seducing. Placeholder imagines the moment when AI comes of age. Multiple tabs, and proliferating windows give Placeholder a desktop's... Read more »
Arr. for a Scene
Jonna Kina
New work
Arr. for a Scene is a documentary of two foley artists while they are producing sounds for one of the most famous film scene in the film history (the shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, 1960). This performance is documented on 35 mm film. The original film scene will remain invisible while the viewer sees... Read more »
The Ice Hockey Film by Heidi
Hannaleena Hauru
New work
Heidi’s fantasy about hockey player Lauri Mäntyvaara is continuously failing. The film studies the encounters of optical and haptic cinema, and the change in the power structures of the cinematic gaze.
Read more »Finnish video art and media art at Kyiv International Short FF
Finnish video art and media art has a strong presence at Kyiv International Short Film Festival, held from April 19–23 in Ukraine. In addition to competition and programme selections, the festival features a special screening on works from AV-arkki’s distribution… Read more »
Extensive Homage to Mika Taanila at GEGENkino, Leipzig
GEGENkino Festival, held in Leipzig from April 6–16, dedicates its second weekend to Finnish experimental filmmaker Mika Taanila. The extensive programme consisting of short and feature-length films and a live performance takes place in Luru-Kino and UT Connewitz, the oldest… Read more »
David Muth’s Footnote#01: Sipilänmäki in Fotogalerie Wien
David Muth’s single channel video Footnote#01: Sipilänmäki (2016) will be installed in a group exhibition Raumkonzepte (Spatial Concepts) in Fotogalerie Wien. Open from April 25 to May 27, the exhibition is concerned with the structures and defining characteristics of space, spatial… Read more »
Pilvi Takala’s Drive with Care at Internationales Frauenfilmfestival, Dortmund
Pilvi Takala’s Drive with Care (2014) is screened at Frauenfilmfestival, Dortmund. The Dortmund|Cologne International Women’s Film Festival is held from April 4–9. Takala’s short film is included in the programme Wicked Games, screened on April 7. Premiered in the international… Read more »