Milja Viita‘s experimental documentary SKÖNÄRIT has been selected to Festival ECRÃ of Experimental Art and Cinema, held from July 3–27, 2024 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. SKÖNÄRIT is a collage film about seafarers based on archival footage shot around the… Read more »
Earth's Mantle Hides an Ocean
Minna-Kaisa Kallinen
New work
The Earth's Mantle Hides an Ocean is a song about time — its layers and the life beneath the surface. It explores childhood and its fleeting nature, the tensions and the consequences of our actions. It is intertwined with the essence of lichen and the imagination of a child.
Read more »Roman Charity
Alena Tereshko
New work
In Roman Charity, the artist recreates the famous painting of the same title by Peter Paul Rubens from the perspective of the breastfeeding woman. The video essay weaves together reflections on art history and fragments from Rubens’ life with elements of the artist’s personal history.
Read more »Hannaleena Heiska’s Metamorphosis in the programme of Lago Film Festival, Italy (18–26th July, 2025)
Hannaleena Heiska’s film Metamorphosis will be screened at the Lago Film Festival, held from 18th to 26th July, 2025 in Revine Lago, Italy. The film will be part of the section Moving Bodies, which features dance-focused films. Founded in 2005… Read more »
Flesh and Bones - discussions about existence
Camilla Vuorenmaa
New work
This audio work, Flesh and Bones (2021, re-edited in 2024), is based on real interviews I conducted during my artist residency at the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York in 2019. The sections are titled About the Future, Flesh and Bones, and Meeting the Spirits.I interviewed people from various professional... Read more »
The ZKM | Center for Art and Media will present a second exhibition of the research-project Emergence of video art in Europe (1960s–1980s) in 2026
The ZKM | Center for Art and Media will present the second exhibition of the four-year international research-project Emergence of video art in Europe (1960s–1980s) (2021–2025). The research seeks to assess not only the very rich and varied video production… Read more »
Wherever Street Piece - Installation
Panu Johansson
New work
"Wherever Street Piece" is a found-footage film that depicts fragmented, impersonal memories. It blends together forgotten, bygone realities from the perspective of the present: if we neglect the lessons of the past, are we bound to repeat its mistakes?
Read more »Wherever Street Piece
Panu Johansson
New work
"Wherever Street Piece" is a found-footage film that depicts fragmented, impersonal memories. It blends together forgotten, bygone realities from the perspective of the present: if we neglect the lessons of the past, are we bound to repeat its mistakes?
Read more »Henna-Riikka Halonen’s Tissue included in LABOCINE’s June 2025 issue MICROGRAPHIA
Henna-Riikka Halonen’s film Tissue is included in LABOCINE’s June 2025 issue MICROGRAPHIA. The curatorial lens draws inspiration from Micrographia, Robert Hooke’s 1665 masterpiece—the first book to depict the microscopic world through both scientific observation and artistic illustration. Introducing the term… Read more »
Walking With Permafrost More-than-Human
Mari Keski-Korsu
New work
Walking with Permafrost More-than-Human focuses on permafrost thaw in a palsa mire and the ancient microbiological life that is being released from the ice as a result of the climate crisis. The work consists of synchronised movements across different scales — under a microscope and in the mire.
Read more »PastureG28: Other Visitor Attraction
Soile Mottisenkangas
New work
The pastoral landscape opens up into a wide open space on a summer night. Grazing livestock roars, and birds give a concert. The picture and the sound ruminate, simply being there. Who decides what is a sight worth seeing?
Read more »Taija Goldblatt’s Ocean’s Skeleton selected to Fest Anča International Animation Festival, Žilina, Slovakia
Taija Goldblatt‘s Ocean’s Skeleton has been selected to Fest Anča International Animation Festival, held from 24–29 June, 2025 in Žilina, Slovakia.Ocean’s Skeleton (2024) is an animation of the ocean’s bones, the joints of the waves, humankind and dark waters. Taija… Read more »
Marja Helander’s video works part of the group exhibition ‘I converse with fire’ at the North Norwegian Art Centre, Svolvær, Norway
Marja Helander’s video works Trambo (2014) and Dolastallat – To have a campfire (2016) (featured image) are part of the group exhibition I converse with fire at the North Norwegian Art Centre in Svolvær, Norway. The exhibition is on view… Read more »
At the Shadow of the World
Arttu Nieminen
New work
A surreal journey into the complex relationship between Indigenous peoples and the unstoppable force of technological progress. The film depicts various stages of technological development and their impact on indigenous populations.
Read more »Room
Niina Suominen
New work
An object animation filmed on 16mm film in an abandoned cabin, contemplates personal space, habitual routines, and established systems. In the work, objects have their own place and unwritten rules that should be followed. When a risk-taker causes a fatal collision for the community, the system collapses, and order is lost... Read more »
You Saw Nothing
Timo Bredenberg
New work
The work explores algorithmic narratives of large language models and so-called generative AI. The starting point of the work was recontextualization of the sentence written by Marguerite Duras from the film "Hiroshima mon amour" (1959): "You didn't see the hospital in Hiroshima".
Read more »If night has fallen, sleep well. The rest is silence, secrets now
Pilvari Pirtola
New work
Audiovisual poem about late capitalism.
Read more »The Transformative Figure
Anna-Sofia Nylund
New work
An artist sits in her studio, watching three screens streaming live footage from a car park cave. On the screens, a transparent entity appears — something that does not seem to belong there. She names it The Transformative Figure, as it appears to change form in response to its surroundings. She realises that the... Read more »
Mouth wide open
Camilla Vuorenmaa
New work
A gathering of adults in the forest turns into a chilling game of hide-and-seek at the harbor. Camilla Vuorenmaa's short film, Mouth Wide Open (2023), provides a glimpse into the fears and uncertainties of youth. These experiences resonate throughout life like an internal voice, leaving their mark on relationships. The film... Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Pena’s Special Hauling selected to Minikino Film Week, Bali, Indonesia (12–19 September, 2025)
Anssi Kasitonni’s Pena’s Special Hauling has been selected to Minikino Film Week 11 – Bali International Short Film Festival, held from 12–19 September, 2025 in Bali, Indonesia. Minikino Film Week, Bali’s International Short Film Festival, launched in 2015 as the… Read more »
Spirits
Marja Viitahuhta
New work
A cameraless animation by visual artist and filmmaker Marja Viitahuhta brings to life the 1839 drawings of northern lights by French illustrator Louis Bévalet, drawn in the Alta region in Sápmi. This digital space is filled by the sound of the indigenous Sámi musician Ánnámáret... Read more »
With & Without Money
Aimo Hyvärinen
New work
With & Without Money is based on my ongoing research. Even as a child, I remember thinking that money was a strange thing — especially when I noticed how some people were willing to do almost anything for it. I found it embarrassing, even shameful — and I still do. Since 1974, I have created numerous... Read more »
Lost Touch
Sini Henttu
New work
Lost touch is a media installation consisting of a video, a bed, vinyl sheets, laundry tag and other objects. In the video, a character presses against the surface of the screen, and its body produces electric sounds upon contact. The character shifts from absent to present while staring through the screen and... Read more »
There is always a risk of suffocation when swallowed
Sini Henttu
New work
“There is always a risk of suffocation when swallowed” explores corporeal autonomous functions. What happens when a process taken for granted is disrupted for one reason or another? The act of swallowing compares to various normative functions: the subject suppresses their needs and emotions until... Read more »
Farewell to Snow – Snowplay
Sanni Priha
New work
The film-poem examines the bodily and sensual connection between human and the non-human – the love between a poet and the disappearing snow in the Circumpolar North. The poet-player dives into the snow, opening and closing the folds of memory, desire, grief and loss. A nature documentary for the generations of a... Read more »
{If your bait can sing the wild one will come} Like Shadows Through Leaves
Lucy Davis
New work
One of Singapore’s oldest social housing estates lies alongside a railway that, until 2011, was owned by Malaysia — creating a 10-meter-wide zone of indeterminate governance that cut through the island city. This corridor hosted 150 bird species and a fecund abundance of more-than-human activity. As the land is... Read more »
Teak Road
Lucy Davis
New work
Part magic, part science, part eco-historical investigation, Jalan Jati traces real & imagined journeys of a teak bed found in Singapore across Southeast Asia to the possible site of original tree using DNA tracking technology. A project on memories of wood, trees and people. (Much of the imagery is from woodprints of... Read more »
Milja Viita’s The Bomb Factory Girl (2006) to be screened at Vienna Shorts
Milja Viita’s The Bomb Factory Girl (2006) is screened at Vienna Shorts, held from May 27–June 1st, 2025 in Vienna, Austria. In The Bomb Factroy Girl (2006) a woman is telling about her work in the bomb factory during the… Read more »
Marja Helander & Liselotte Wajstedt’s short film In My Hand selected to the 51st Seattle International Film Festival (May 15–25, 2025)
Marja Helander & Liselotte Wajstedt‘s In My Hand has been selected to Seattle International Film Festival, taking place from May 15–25, 2025 in Seattle, US. In My Hand tells the story of the Sámi struggle on both a personal and… Read more »
Pink Twins’ Firewalk (2025) selected to Annecy International Animation Film Festival, France
Pink Twins’ latest film Firewalk is selected to Annecy International Animation Film Festival, held from 8th to 14th June 2025 in Annecy, France. Firewalk will be screened in the Off-Limits category. In Firewalk (2025) a pre-apocalyptic midnight walk takes you… Read more »