The last Art for Art’s Sake screening of the year takes place on Tuesday 10 December 2024 and continues the theme of being touched by examining the impossibility, difficulty and contradictions of touch. In Marjatta Oja‘s work, Dialogue 3101 1990… Read more »
Jussi Eerola’s Grasshopper to be awarded the Eisenstein Award at Blow-Up Arthouse Film Festival, Chicago, US
Jussi Eerola’s Grasshopper will be awarded the Eisenstein Award at Blow-Up Arthouse Film Festival, held in Chicago, US. Grasshopper (2023) is a minimalistic musical. Night falls down on empty business premises – and lights go up! Finnish filmmaker and cinematographer… Read more »
Films by Iona Roisin, Anu Pennanen, Azar Saiyar and Milja Viita & Veli Granö at Beijing International Short Film Festival (BISFF)
Iona Roisin’s An Uncountable Number of Threads (featured image), Anu Pennanen’s 50, 100 Years From Now, Azar Saiyar’s Solar Book and Milja Viita & Veli Granö’s The King will be screened at Beijing International Short Film Festival (BISFF), held from… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’ Two Wars and Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh’s You Can’t Get What You Want But You Can Get Me in competition at Alcalá de Henares Film Festival – Alcine, Madrid
Jan Ijäs’ Two Wars and Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh’s You You Can’t Get What You Want But You Can Get Me compete at Alcalá de Henares Film Festival – Alcine, held from 7 to 17 November 2024 in Madrid,… Read more »
Shubhangi Singh’s Birth of a Grenade included in the program of Magma – International Short Film Festival in Acireale, Italy
Shubhangi Singh’s Birth of a Grenade (2024) is included in the program of Magma – International Short Film Festival, held from 4–9 November, 2024 in Acireale, Italy. The film will be screened in the Eksperimenta section, which is dedicated to experimental… Read more »
Hanna Kaihlanen’s Hovering Over Us nominated for the Golden Key, Paula Lehtonen’s Guests of Honor included in Short & Sweet section at 41st Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival
Hanna Kaihlanen’s Hovering Over Us (featured image) has been nominated for the Golden Key for the best documentary short film by the selection committees of the 41st Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, held from 12–17 November, 2024 in Kassel,… Read more »
The November screening of Art for Art’s Sake series touches upon our relationships with creatures great and small
The overarching theme of the fall season of AV-arkki and Cinema Orion’s Art for Art’s sake series is touch. The second show in the autumn series on November 5th examines the relationships between humans and other living beings. The works… Read more »
Films by Sanna Liljander, August Joensalo, Rosaliina Paavilainen, Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh and Anssi Kasitonni at Nordic Film Days Lübeck
Sanna Liljander’s When Will the Day Break, August Joensalo’s Rootless, Rosaliina Paavilainen’s The Beauty Odyssey, Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh’s You Can’t Get What You Want But You Can Get Me and Anssi Kasitonni’s Pena’s Special Hauling are included in… Read more »
Erkki Kurenniemi’s Computer Music (1966) included in the program of 28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Erkki Kurenniemi’s Computer Music (1966) is included in the program of Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, held from October 25–November 3, 2024 in Jihlava, Czech Republic. The film is included in the section Fascinations: Computing Film, which explores the “forerunners”… Read more »
Films by Saara Ekström, Paula Lehtonen and Anssi Kasitonni included in the program of Les Instants Vidéo 2024
Saara Ekström’s Geopsyche (2024), Paula Lehtonen’s Guests of Honor (2024) and Anssi Kasitonni’s Pena’s Special Hauling (2024) are included in the program of Festival Les Instants Vidéo 2024. Geopsyche and Guests of Honor will be on view in the exhibition,… Read more »