Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth, recently screened at the konstazer kurz.film.spiele, will be shown at Brest Short Film Festival held from November 12–17. Birds in the Earth is selected as part of the UFO Competition and will be shown… Read more »
The Stroker screened at International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao & Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival
Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker (2019) is screened at International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao from November 8-15 and Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival from November 6-10. At International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, The… Read more »
Patrik Söderlund’s Realms screened at Reggio Film Festival
Patrik Söderlund’s Realms (2018) will be screened at Reggio Film Festival, held from November 5–18 in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Realms will be screened in the short film programme “Earth Section” on Tuesday, November 12, at 21:00 in Teatro San Prospero…. Read more »
Johanna Lecklin’s and Pilvi Takala’s short films at Aesthetica Short Film Festival
Johanna Lecklin’s Not Just a Matter of Passion (2019) and Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker (2019) are included in the selection of the Aesthetica Short Film Festival, held in York, England, from November 6-10. Johanna Lecklin‘s Not Just a Matter of Passion… Read more »
Saara Ekström’s Body All Eyes & Sami van Ingen’s Flame at Festival Instants Vidéo
Saara Ekström’s Body All Eyes (2018) and Sami van Ingens Flame (2018) are included in the selection of the Festival Les Instants Vidéo, held in Marseilles, France, from October 24 to December 31. Both Body All Eyes and Flame are… Read more »
Minna Långström’s The Other Side of Mars awarded at Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Minna Långström’s documentary film The Other Side of Mars (2019) was awarded at the 23rd Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, held from October 24–29 in Czech Republic. Långström’s film won the main award of its competition selection “A Testimony on… Read more »
Elli Vuorinen’s Still Lives awarded the Golden Gunnar Grand Prix at Fredrikstad Animation Festival
Elli Vuorinen’s Still Lives won the Golden Gunnar Grand Prix at the Fredrikstad Animation Festival, held 24-27.10 in Fredrikstad, Norway. The Jury states: “The winning film is in equal parts funny, sacral and contemplative. Dancing between modernity and history, it… Read more »
AV-arkki presents a showcase on the latest generation of the Finnish Artists’ Moving Image in St. Petersburg
AV-arkki presents a lecture and a showcase on the latest generation of the Finnish artists’ moving image in St. Petersburg on Saturday, November 2. The event is part of the screening programme hosted by the New Holland Island International Debut… Read more »
Meet the Artist: Reija Meriläinen
The latest AVEK Award laureate, Reija Meriläinen (b.1987), works with moving image, sculpture and installation. She is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts, and her work often explores social dynamics and power. We discuss her work Survivor, and… Read more »
Laura Horelli’s Namibia Today and Uutisten aika in an exhibition in Katutura, Namibia
Two works by Laura Horelli, Namibia Today (2018) and Uutisten aika (2019) are shown in an exhibition Changes in Direction. The exhibition is open until October 25 in JMAC Gallery, College of the Arts, KCAC, Katutura, Namibia. In Namibia Today, the… Read more »