Panu Johansson’s Picturing a Micropolis: 96100-97690 (2018) travels the world. Johansson’s experimental short film will be screened at Pugnant Film Series – This Is not a Robot Film Festival (October 5–6, Athens, Greece), Experimental Film Guanajuato (October 11–12, Guanajuato, México),… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s On the Art of the Set Design in the Radar Competition of Curtocircuito Film Festival
Jan Ijäs’s On the Art of the Set Design (2018) will be screened in the official Radar Competition at Curtocircuito Film Festival, held from September 28 to October 6 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Ijäs’s short documentary is included in… Read more »
Jaakko Pallasvuo’s Heterosexual Love Story screened at WNDX Festival of Moving Image
Jaakko Pallasvuo’s Heterosexual Love Story (2018) will be screened at WNDX Festival of Moving Image, held from October 2–6 in Winnipeg, Canada. Heterosexual Love Story is included in the screening “Who Do You Love?“, screened on Friday, October 4 at… Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s Monument of Distance screened at Tallinn Photomonth’s Film Programme
Azar Saiyar’s Monument of Distance (2018) will be screened as a part of Tallinn Photomonth‘s film programme. The video is included in the screening “East from West“. The screening, curated by Ingel Vaikla, takes place on Wednesday, October 2, at… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s first solo exhibition “Objects and Sounds” in Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome
Jonna Kina‘s first solo exhibition in Rome, “Objects and Sounds”, is open until November 20 in Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome. The exhibition is curated by Manuela Pacella. The project has received the patronage of the Finnish Embassy in Rome and has been… Read more »
Focus of Finnish experimental shorts at Festival of Different and Experimental Cinemas, Paris
Held in Paris from October 2–18, the Festival of Different and Experimental Cinemas presents two screenings of Finnish experimental shorts in collaboration with AV-arkki, FixC, and Institut Finlandais. The screenings have been curated by Kari Yli-Annala. Focus: Relations de pouvoir… Read more »
Meet the Artist: Sara Pathirane
Sara Pathirane (born in 1985) works with video, installation and painting. She is agraduate of the Academy of Fine Arts, and her works often engage with the tradition of landscape painting. We discussed future projects, fictions of places, and the… Read more »
Patrik Söderlund’s Realms continues its festival life with screenings at several venues and a fresh award from Arctic FF
Premiered at IFF Rotterdam in January 2019, Patrik Söderlund’s short film Realms (2018) continues its successful film festival life. Recently, it was awarded for the best cinematography (by Jussi Eerola) at Arctic Film Festival, held in the worlds northernmost film… Read more »
Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker awarded with Honourable Mention at Nordisk Panorama
Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker was awarded with Honourable Mention at Nordisk Panorama, held from September 19–24 in Malmö. The Jury states: “The film depict the discomfort of superficial intimacy when a strange concept is introduced in the workplace. A simple… Read more »
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth screened at Doha Film Institute, Qatar
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth (2018) will be screened at Doha Film Institute, Qatar, in a joint screening with Lil’ Buck’s feature-length documentary film Real Swan (2019). The screening will take place on Monday, September 23, at 19:00. Birds… Read more »