Mika Taanila’s experimental short film Patent No. 314805 (2020) will be streamed at Flatpack Festival, held online from May 21–31. The film is included in the Optical Sound short film programme, available from May 27. In June, Taanila’s film will… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic screened in Winterthur and Ascona as ISFF Winterthur reaches local cinemas
International Short Film Festival Winterthur, held online in November 2020, is taking its programme to local cinemas in front of the live audience in May and June. Among other shorts in the official competition programmes, Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic is… Read more »
Short films by Niina Suominen, Milja Viita, and Mika Taanila in the competition at Regensburg International Short Film Week
Niina Suominen’s What Time Is? (2020), Milja Viita’s When We Are Nothing Left (2019), and Mika Taanila’s Patent No. 314805 (2020) were selected for the international competition of Regensburg International Short Film Week, held online from May 21 – June… Read more »
Short films by Elina Oikari and Azar Saiyar streamed at International Ethnographic Film Festival of Québec
Short films by Elina Oikari and Azar Saiyar will be streamed in the official selection of International Ethnographic Film Festival Québec (FIFEQ). Elina Oikari’s Govadas (2018) will be streamed in the Québec edition from May 20 – June 6 while… Read more »
Sari Nordman’s Assembling at Art in Odd Places, New York
Sari Nordman’s Assembling (2019) is part of the programme at Art in Odd Places, a grassroots art event taking place in New York, from May 13–16. This performative work highlights female-identifying performers. They assemble on the cobblestones of a NYC… Read more »
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic screened at Dreamscapes: A Static Vision Festival in Australia
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic (2020) is screened at Dreamscapes: A Static Vision Festival on May 15 in a joint programme with Moara Passoni’s feature-length film Ecstasy (2020) and Sid Iandovka’s and Anya Tsyrlina’s horizōn (2019). The screening at Pink Flamingo Cinema marks the… Read more »
Sasha Huber’s solo exhibition in Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam
Sasha Huber’s solo exhibition is open in Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, until August 9. Swiss-Haitian-Finnish artist Sasha Huber uses performance, photography and film, among other media, to investigate colonial residues left in the environment. Her projects conceive of natural spaces—mountains, lakes,… Read more »
Anikó Kuikka’s private exhibition in Fiumano Clase, London
Anikó Kuikka‘s private exhibition Your Dawn Will Come is open in the gallery Fiumano Clase in London until May 22 2021. The exhibition is Kuikka’s exploration of a primordial fear of death, counterbalanced by the hope of rebirth. Visitors will… Read more »
Helena Öst’s A Home in Memory screened at Taiwan International Documentary Festival
Helena Öst’s A Home in Memory will be screened at Taiwan International Documentary Festival, held in Taipei City from April 30 – May 9. Öst’s short documentary film is included in the thematic programme Documemory: Space and Place, curated by… Read more »
Meet the Artist – Dave Berg
Dave Berg (b.1981) graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2013, after which he has made live-action films as well as shorter computer animations. Dark themes, intensity and poetic narration are typical for his art. Berg tells us… Read more »