Archive Books is hosting an online screening programme to celebrate a new publication on Laura Horelli’s recent films. Changes in Direction – a Journal will be published in March 2021. Changes in Direction – a Journal provides multivocal and transnational African-European… Read more »
Meet the Artist – Arja Kärkkäinen
Arja Kärkkäinen (b.1986) is a Helsinki based visual artist, who works mainly with sculpture and moving image. We sat down to talk about office work, communication issues specific to Finnish culture, and the ignorance related to consumerism. Arja Kärkkäinen makes… Read more »
Pilvi Takala’s If Your Heart Wants It (Remix) at Rencontres Internationales, Paris
Pilvi Takala’s If Your Heart Wants It (Remix) (2020) will be screened at Rencontres Internationales, held as a hybrid festival in Paris and online from February 23–28. If Your Heart Wants It (Remix) is included in the screening L’homme machine… Read more »
Marko Lampisuo, Marjo Levlin, Sari Palosaari, and Pauliina Salminen in a collaborative exhibition Déplacer l’horizon in Marseille
Marko Lampisuo, Marjo Levlin, Sari Palosaari, and Pauliina Salminen are the Finnish artists participating in Déplacer l’horizon, a collaborative exhibition project between Helsinki, Marseille, and Rabat. Included in the programme of Manifesta 13 biennial, the exhibition was postponed from Autumn… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s new diptych film After Life followed by Red Impasto Jar selected for Berlinale Forum Expanded
Jonna Kina’s new cinematic work After Life followed by Red Impasto Jar (2021) was selected for Berlinale Forum Expanded. The work is a composition of two separate films exploring transcendental issues through illegal excavations of tombs – a phenomenon faced… Read more »
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth screened at Available Light Film Festival, Yukon
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth (2018) will be screened at Available Light Film Festival, held in Yukon, Canada, from February 5–22. The festival will be arranged as a hybrid of on-site and online screenings. Helander’s short film is included… Read more »
New artists’ moving image in our online archive / January 2021
Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Camille Auer: Seepage (2020, 33:27) The outer limits of a body are porous. We continuously seep into our surroundings and they seep into us…. Read more »
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic in a screening programme Signals and Circuits
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic (2020) is included in a screening programme Signals and Circuits, on view in VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland until January 31 2021. The screening was previously presented at Cork International Film Festival in… Read more »
Meet the artist – Jarkko Räsänen
Jarkko Räsänen (b.1984) works with photography, moving image and sound art. Recently he has moved towards computer-based, algorithmic visual works using self-made softwares, including moving image and live vj performances. We discussed his most recent video works and his working… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic awarded as the Best Nordic Film at Minimalen Short Film Festival
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) was awarded as the Best Nordic Film at the 33rd Minimalen Short Film Festival, held online from January 12–17. The jury states: “The film strikes a beautiful balance between imagination, reality and what we choose… Read more »