Johanna Lecklin’s The Cage (2015) is screened in the international competition of 10th International Children’s Film Festival Bangladesh, held from January 24–30. The Cage deals with a memory of a horrible childhood experience. A woman tells about a childhood bullying incident… Read more »
Laura Horelli’s and Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s latest works at Forum Expanded, Berlinale
Laura Horelli’s Jokinen and Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s Studies on the Ecology of Drama have their world festival premiere in the ambitious Forum Expanded programme of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale). The festival is held from February 9–19. Forum Expanded… Read more »
Pink Twins and Johanna Lecklin at the 8th Cairo Video Festival
The 8th Cairo Video Festival, held from February 5–28, features works by Pink Twins and Johanna Lecklin. The festival programme includes the single-channel version of Pink Twins’ Parametronomicon (2015). Parametronomicon presents a model of parametric virtual life. A biomechanic organism moves,… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 2 Wreck at Punto de Vista Documentary FF, Spain
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 2 Wreck (2016) will have its Spanish premiere in the Short Film Programme of Punto de Vista Documentary Film Festival, held in Navarra, Pamplona, from March 6–11. Waste no. 2 Wreck was filmed in 2014 and 2015… Read more »
Finnish media art at the International Film Festival Rotterdam
The programme of the prestigious International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) features four Finnish experimental short films by Mika Taanila, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Antti Jussila & Jari Kallio, Jan Ijäs, and Sasha Huber & Petri Saarikko. Held from January 25 to February… Read more »
Samuli Alapuranen’s Drag Me to Kempele and Milja Viita’s Q at Minimalen Short FF, Trondheim
Samuli Alapuranen’s Drag Me to Kempele (2017) and Milja Viita’s Q (2016) have been selected to the Nordic Competition of Minimalen Short Film Festival, held from January 25–29 in Trondheim, Norway. Alapuranen’s Drag Me to Kempele will have its international… Read more »
Azar Saiyar, Pekka Sassi, Maarit Suomi-Väänänen and Pilvi Takala at Stuttgarter Filmwinter
Azar Saiyar’s History Bleeds Under Your Fingernails (2016) and Pekka Sassi’s Making Art Video (2016) are selected in the international short film competition of the 300th Stuttgarter Filmwinter, held from January 18–22. The festival programme includes also works from Maarit… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Masa and Hanna Saarikoski’s See Paris and Die at KOTI Sleepover, Paris
AV-arkki collaborates with Institut finlandais, Paris, in their Mobile Home 2017 project KOTI Sleepover from late January to May. Designed by Linda Bergroth, KOTI is a 100-day living installation celebrating the Finnish home. Cottages are available for guests to stay… Read more »