La Cineteca Nacional in Mexico celebrates Finnish cinema with a special programme of eight feature-length films and nine short films. The event is held from April 12–19. The selection includes films by Mika Taanila and Marja Helander. Mika Taanila‘s Tectonic… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 3 Boom and Waste no. 1 Money at Trento FF & Kyiv ISFF
Two short documentary films by Jan Ijäs, Waste no. 1 Money (2017) and Waste no. 3 Boom (2017) are screened this spring at Kyiv International Short Film Festival (Ukraine) and Trento Film Festival (Italy). Waste no. 1 Money is selected… Read more »
Meet the Artists: Minna Rainio & Mark Roberts
Recently awarded at the 8th Turku Biennial, Minna Rainio and Mark Roberts work on complex topics such as immigration, global capitalism, and climate change. In their installations and single channel works, they often look for new perspectives by drawing parallels… Read more »
Sami van Ingen’s Flame in the international competition of Fronteira IFF, Brasil
Sami van Ingen’s experimental short film Flame (2018) will be screened in the international short film competition of Fronteira International Film Festival. Held from April 12–21 in Goiânia, Brasil, the festival focuses on documentary and experimental film. The screening of… Read more »
Jaakko Pallasvuo’s Filter competes at ICDOCS and EMAF
Jaakko Pallasvuo’s short film Filter (2017) is selected in the international competitions of the European Media Art Festival (EMAF), held in Osnabrück, Germany, from April 18–22, and The Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival (ICDOCS), held from April 26–28. At EMAF,… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene and Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 5 The Raft of the Medusa at IndieLisboa
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene (2017) and Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 5 The Raft of the Medusa (2017) will be screened at IndieLisboa, held from 26.4.–6.5. in Portugal. Kina’s Arr. for a Scene was selected in the international short… Read more »
Films by Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Joakim Pusenius, Jan Ijäs, and Pink Twins at Rencontres Internationales
Short films by Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Joakim Pusenius, Jan Ijäs, and Pink Twins are screened at Rencontres Internationales. The festival is held in Paris from April 10–15. Eija-Liisa Ahtila‘s Studies on the Ecology of Drama (2017) is included in the opening… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene in the short film competition of Las Palmas IFF
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene (2017) is one of 12 short films picked for the official short film competition selection of Las Palmas International Film Festival, held from April 6–15 in Gran Canaria. Kina’s short film will be screened… Read more »
Finnish media artists selected for the first Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art
The first Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA1) will be held from 2.6.–28.10.2018. The theme of the RIBOCA1 is “Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More”. The Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA) is an international biennial… Read more »
Meet the Artist: Kalle Nio
“Meet the Artist” is AV-arkki’s new series of interviews with our artists. We start our monthly concept with an interview with Kalle Nio, a visual artist and a co-founder of WHS, a collective producing new circus and visual theatre. Kalle Nio… Read more »