Vesa-Pekka Rannikko‘s Rat and Border Dog (featured image) and Saara Ekström‘s Amnion have been selected in the video art competition of the international video art festival VIDEOFORMES. The festival takes place from March 13 to 16, 2025 in Clermont-Ferrand, France…. Read more »
Art for Art’s Sake screening series continues at Cinema Orion on March 11th exploring themes of habitation and belonging
The beloved Art for Art’s Sake screening series is back! The first screening of the year takes place on Tuesday, 11th of March 2025 and explores themes of habitation and belonging. On various scales, the city as well as dynamics… Read more »
Sami Sänpäkkilä’s Ritual for the Rainbow to be screened at five Nordic children’s and youth film festivals and included on the educational platform Norden i Skolen
Sami Sänpäkkilä‘s film Ritual for the Rainbow will be shown at five film festivals who are part of NosJE network of Nordic children’s and youth film festivals: Reykjavik International Film Festival (Iceland), BUFF Malmö Film Festival (Sweden), Kristiansand International Children’s… Read more »
Invasive Species
Risto-Pekka Blom
New work
Invasive species are a threat to biodiversity, including all other invasive species. Note: The film includes a musical performance by an extremely harmful invasive species.
Read more »Almanach
Monika Czyzyk
New work
Three characters transform natural, elemental materials into music in a hypnotic, shamanic dance of bodies, sounds, and landscapes. Stones, shells, clay, wood, and air act reverberate together in hypnotic and constantly expanding audio-visual echoes.
Read more »With the Pine in Lill-Jansskogen 1-11
Annette Arlander
New work
Eleven conversations on current topics with a pine were recorded in Lill-Jansskogen wood in central Stockholm in the year 2022 (26.2., 22.3., 15.4., 20.5., 11.6., 26.7., 16.8., 16.9., 7.10., 19.11. ja 18.12.2022). They strive to approach the tree as a subject although the result is a kind of monologue inspired by the pine.... Read more »
Leena Pukki’s The Time of A Slime Mold at Manipulate Festival, Edinburgh
Leena Pukki’s animation film The Time of A Slime Mold is screened in the International Shorts program of Manipulate Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland taking place from 12-15 February, 2025. Manipulate Festival is an annual celebration of excellence in animated film,… Read more »
Jumi-Jami
Albert Laine Kristina Laine
New work
Jumi-jami is an audiovisual performance that combines physicality with sonic and video art. Every pop and snap are audible through the PA system in the intimate ASMR spirit.Our bodies are versatile, fine-tuned systems that allow us to move and communicate in the world around us. Many of us do sedentary work on... Read more »
Magical Healing Pony II
Katri Tikkanen
New work
Magical Healing Pony II portrays a dreamlike encounter where a magical, healing pony appears. During this dream, all fears dissolve, and the physical burdens of the body vanish.
Read more »Sanna Liljander’s When Will the Day Break, Albert Laine’s Closer and Albert Laine & Kristina Laine’s Memories in the Clouds in the Nordic Competition at Minimalen Short Film Festival, Trondheim
Sanna Liljander’s When Will the Day Break (featured image), Albert Laine’s Closer and Albert Laine & Kristina Laine’s Memories in the Clouds are selected to the Nordic Competition of Minimalen Short Film Festival, held from January 21st to 26th, 2025… Read more »
Anima
Lau Rämö
New work
The film Anima follows the perspective of a primate researching life through books. The views come closer, and crawl under the skin. This associative animation piece combines personal and archival material, exploring distance, physical presence, and connection. It examines the relationships between living... Read more »
Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears and Elli Vuorinen’s Still Lives at International Film Festival Rotterdam (January 30th–February 9th, 2025)
Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears (featured image) and Elli Vuorinen’s Still Lives will screen in the Short & Mid-length category at the 54th edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam, held from January… Read more »
D/composition
Jukka Silokunnas
New work
Stop motion animation about the last piano sonata – realized with a sledge hammer.
Read more »Theory of the derive
Clément Beraud
New work
Warning:This film contain audio that may be alarming and/or trigger traumas.This film is not a spectacle. It has no pretentions.If you're looking for a film that will change from your daily life, this film is not for you.If you want to watch a film that will make you forget your existence, this film... Read more »
Whirl
Clément Beraud
New work
Whirl is a short experimental film that explores the contemporary links between human and nature. The sound work echoes the everlasting longing for life of non-human animals facing extinction. The distorted sound of whales and other animals become a crying song, lamenting the destruction of the environment caused by humans.... Read more »
Ulmus Laevis
Aimo Hyvärinen
New work
Ulmus Laevis (Pen Elm) is a poetic video and photographic work about the Finland's northernmost pen elm and its thoughts as the seasons change. The work evokes thoughts about the relationship between nature and human and attempts to convey the beauty of trees to all of us.... Read more »
Green Land
Jaana Kokko
New work
Green Land takes place in rural Latvia. Its key image – the gestalt of history – is a concrete sculpture by Rasma Bruzīte from 1952. Depicting a collective farm worker, it personifies both personal as well as state memory, in different ways. The main characters, former collective farm workers Irēna, Veronika... Read more »
Kai Oka’s The Closing Circle (1992/2023) at AGORA Movement Space, Budapest
Kai Oka’s The Closing Circle will be showcased at AGORA Movement Space, Budapest on Friday 20th December as part of a special screening event. At the heart of the evening is the premiere screening of The Closing Circle (1992/2023), a 14-minute cinematic… Read more »
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth (Eatnanvuloš Lottit) on view at Botkyrka Konsthall, Sweden
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth (Eatnanvuloš Lottit) is included in Botkyrka Konsthall‘s film programme titled “We are fluid from all directions, from all directions we meet”. The film programme is presented within the exhibition format where films are shown… Read more »
Gardenia
Helena Aleksandrova
New work
This Frankenstein-inspired sci-fi dance film explores surveillance, video-boredom and the limits of video pleasure. Through movement, music and imagery, it reflects on the tension between observation, obsession, control, and the fleeting nature of visual entertainment.
Read more »Whispers of Odd
Helena Aleksandrova
New work
Whispers of Odd is a surreal Super 8mm short film created in collaboration with Riga Circus. Inspired by clowns, acrobats, and Kenneth Anger, it explores curiosity and boredom through poetic visuals, physical comedy and virtuosity. The film is part of the Trilogy of Stage anthology by Film Tonight! collective.
Read more »Smoking Spot
Niina Suominen
New work
An experimental film about the loss of the communal smoking area.
This work contemplates themes of cultural norms, social meanings and territorial behaviour of human beings. A smoking spot is more than just a place to smoke.
Attraction Park
Helena Aleksandrova
New work
The horror film examines temptations, urban legends and true crime. It follows two night guards exchanging spooky stories about the abandoned amusement park next door. However, the night takes a creepy turn when one of the legends starts to come to life.
Read more »The Will
Salla Tykkä
New work
The film illuminates the process of value formation by tracing the paths that connect family and home, entrepreneurship and work.
Read more »In Limbo
The work depicts a human figure stuck in a vacuum-like space, attempting to rise but failing repeatedly. In Limbo was shot on black-and-white 16mm film and developed using experimental darkroom techniques, creating the illusion of a chemical storm surrounding the struggling figure. The piece was made in collaboration with... Read more »
The last Art for Art’s Sake screening of the year on December 10th, 2024 continues the theme of being touched by examining the impossibility, difficulty and contradictions of touch
The last Art for Art’s Sake screening of the year takes place on Tuesday 10 December 2024 and continues the theme of being touched by examining the impossibility, difficulty and contradictions of touch. In Marjatta Oja‘s work, Dialogue 3101 1990… Read more »
I tried to capture him in the image but he disappeared
The starting point of the film is a historical fact: the filmmaker's Viena Karelian ancestor Rimmin Ul´l´aška live-modeled for the second version of Akseli Gallen-Kallela’s Aino Triptych (1891) in the role of Väinämöinen. The work takes a journey through... Read more »
Jussi Eerola’s Grasshopper to be awarded the Eisenstein Award at Blow-Up Arthouse Film Festival, Chicago, US
Jussi Eerola’s Grasshopper will be awarded the Eisenstein Award at Blow-Up Arthouse Film Festival, held in Chicago, US. Grasshopper (2023) is a minimalistic musical. Night falls down on empty business premises – and lights go up! Finnish filmmaker and cinematographer… Read more »
Two Forests
Jan Ijäs
New work
The story of two forests in Japan - suicide and senicide. Two Forests reflects on the end of human life and the final disposal: aging and death. This time, the setting is the aging and ailing Japan and its forest-related death myths. Two Forests also takes two approaches to death. Although people normally die of an... Read more »
Territorio
Fanni Niemi-Junkola
New work
Territorio is a short film based on true events, blending fiction with reality to explore themes of territories and the ethical stress humans face due to environmental destruction. At its core, the work examines questions of sharing space, boundaries, and control. The film also delves into anxiety arising from geopolitical... Read more »