The program Public Provocations puts together eight short films by Pilvi Takala, curated by Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen.

The program includes the following films: Broad Sense (2011), Drive with Care (2013), Easy Rider (2006), If Your Heart Wants It (2020), The Announcer (2007), The Stroker (2018), The Trainee (2008) and Real Snow White (2009) (featured image). The program is available on the European streaming platform THIS IS SHORT.

The European streaming platform THIS IS SHORT was jointly launched by several film festivals in 2021 and has operated as a year-round and globally available streaming service since November 2023.

Pilvi Takala (b. 1981) lives and works between Berlin and Helsinki. Her video works are based on performative interventions in which she researches specific communities in order to process social structures and question the normative rules and truths of our behaviour in different contexts. Her works show that it is often possible to learn about the implicit rules of a social situation only by its disruption. Her work has been shown in MoMA PS1 and New Museum, Kiasma, Palais de Tokyo, Kunsthalle Basel, Manifesta 11, Witte de With, and the 9th Istanbul Biennial. Takala won the Dutch Prix de Rome in 2011 and the Emdash Award and Finnish State Prize for Visual Arts in 2013.

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