Laura Horelli’s new video Namibia Today (2018) will have its World Premiere at Berlinale Forum Expanded. The 13th Forum Expanded Programme opens at the Akademie der Künste on Hanseatenweg on February 14 under the title “A Mechanism Capable of Changing Itself”…. Read more »
Finnish media art in the international competitions of Stuttgarter Filmwinter
Maarit Suomi-Väänänen’s Minispectacles As Nice as Pies (2017), Marja Viitahuhta’s The Inland Sea (2017), and Timo Wright’s Embrace (2016) were selected in the international short film competition of the Stuttgarter Filmwinter; Jukka Silokunnas’s Vanishing Point (2017) competes in the 2… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene at Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene (2017) will be screened at Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, held from February 9–25 in Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. Established in 2009, the festival combines exhibitions, screenings, live performances, and talk sessions…. Read more »
Timo Wright’s Ex Nihilo screened at Slamdance Film Festival
Timo Wright’s Ex Nihilo (2017) will be screened at Slamdance Film Festival, held in Park City, Utah, from January 19–25. The festival is a showcase for raw and innovative filmmaking self governed. Slamdance marks the world festival premiere for the… Read more »
Sami van Ingen’s, Henna-Riikka Halonen’s, and Jonna Kina’s short films selected to IFF Rotterdam
Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018), Henna-Riikka Halonen’s Placeholder (2017), and Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene (2017) are included in the official selection of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), held from January 24 to February 4. Sami van Ingen’s… Read more »
Short films by Henna-Riikka Halonen, Hannaleena Hauru, Mika Taanila, and Helena Öst at Minimalen
Short films by Henna-Riikka Halonen, Hannaleena Hauru, Mika Taanila, and Helena Öst are selected to the Nordic Short Film Competition of Minimalen Short Film Festival, held in Trondheim from January 23–28. Mika Taanila‘s Delay of Game (2017) is included in the… Read more »
Five short docs from Jan Ijäs’s Waste series screened at Watch Docs IFF
Five short documentary films from Jan Ijäs’s ongoing Waste series are screened at Watch Docs International Film Festival. Held from December 7–14 in Warsaw, the festival focuses on human rights in film. The screenings of Ijäs’s “Waste” films take place… Read more »
Anikó Kuikka’s Anki Under awarded and installed in Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre
Anikó Kuikka is awarded with The Next Thing Award for her video Anki Under (2016). The work will be shown alongside works of nine other next generation moving image artists in the Moving Image Gallery, Bury Art Museum & Sculpture… Read more »
Short documentaries from Jan Ijäs’s Waste series screened in Gijón and Marseille
Two short documentaries from Jan Ijäs’s ongoing Waste series, Money and Wreck, are screened at international film festivals in Spain and France during November. Waste no. 1 Money (2017) is screened at the 55th Gijón International Film Festival, held from… Read more »
Timo Wright’s new installation Ex Nihilo at IDFA DocLab
Timo Wright’s Ex Nihilo (2017) will be installed at IDFA DocLab. IDFA DocLab is a festival program for new media within the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, held from November 16–27. The mission of IDFA DocLab is to showcase interactive… Read more »