Saara Ekström’s Shadow Codex (2021) will have its World Premiere at CPH:DOX NEW:VISION competition. CPH:DOX will be held online from April 21 – May 2. In the NEW:VISION competition, the festival presents 12 short and midlength artists’ films. CPH:DOX, Copenhagen… Read more »
Niina Suominen’s What Time Is? screened at International Festival of Films on Art, Montréal
Niina Suominen’s What Time Is? (2020) will be screened at International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA), based in Montréal but held online from March 16–28. Suominen’s short animation is included in the programme Actions 1. What time is? places… Read more »
AV-arkki presents Sasha Huber’s & Petri Saarikko’s retrospective and a screening of anti-racist shorts at Tampere Film Festival
The 51st Tampere Film Festival will be held online between March 10 and 14. The film programme will be available for the audience during 10–21 March on Festhome TV platform. The oldest and largest short film festival in the Nordic countries… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic screened in Luxembourg, Slovenia, and Canary Islands
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic will be screened at Luxembourg City Film Festival, held as a hybrid event from March 4–14. The screening, taking place on Friday, March 12 in Ciné Utopia, and on Saturday, March 13 online, is a collaboration… Read more »
An online screening programme to celebrate a new publication on Laura Horelli’s recent films
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 »