Milja Viita‘s experimental documentary SKÖNÄRIT has been selected to Festival ECRÃ of Experimental Art and Cinema, held from July 3–27, 2024 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. SKÖNÄRIT is a collage film about seafarers based on archival footage shot around the… Read more »
Hannaleena Heiska’s Metamorphosis in the programme of Lago Film Festival, Italy (18–26th July, 2025)
Hannaleena Heiska’s film Metamorphosis will be screened at the Lago Film Festival, held from 18th to 26th July, 2025 in Revine Lago, Italy. The film will be part of the section Moving Bodies, which features dance-focused films. Founded in 2005… Read more »
The ZKM | Center for Art and Media will present a second exhibition of the research-project Emergence of video art in Europe (1960s–1980s) in 2026
The ZKM | Center for Art and Media will present the second exhibition of the four-year international research-project Emergence of video art in Europe (1960s–1980s) (2021–2025). The research seeks to assess not only the very rich and varied video production… Read more »
Henna-Riikka Halonen’s Tissue included in LABOCINE’s June 2025 issue MICROGRAPHIA
Henna-Riikka Halonen’s film Tissue is included in LABOCINE’s June 2025 issue MICROGRAPHIA. The curatorial lens draws inspiration from Micrographia, Robert Hooke’s 1665 masterpiece—the first book to depict the microscopic world through both scientific observation and artistic illustration. Introducing the term… Read more »
Walking With Permafrost More-than-Human
Walking with Permafrost More-than-Human focuses on permafrost thaw in a palsa mire and the ancient microbiological life that is being released from the ice as a result of the climate crisis. The work consists of synchronised movements across different scales — under a microscope and in the mire.
Read more »PastureG28: Other Visitor Attraction
The pastoral landscape opens up into a wide open space on a summer night. Grazing livestock roars, and birds give a concert. The picture and the sound ruminate, simply being there. Who decides what is a sight worth seeing?
Read more »Leena Lehti’s Existence II and Müge Yıldız’s Non/Living featured in the Kinekini Moving Image Screening & Exhibition, Surabaya, Indonesia
Leena Lehti‘s work Existence II and Müge Yıldız‘s Non/Living (featured image) are screened in the program of Kinekini Moving Image Screening a Orasis Art Space in Surabaya, Indonesia. The program runs from 31 May–15 June 2025. Orasis Art Space in… Read more »
Taija Goldblatt’s Ocean’s Skeleton selected to Fest Anča International Animation Festival, Žilina, Slovakia
Taija Goldblatt‘s Ocean’s Skeleton has been selected to Fest Anča International Animation Festival, held from 24–29 June, 2025 in Žilina, Slovakia.Ocean’s Skeleton (2024) is an animation of the ocean’s bones, the joints of the waves, humankind and dark waters. Taija… Read more »
Marja Helander’s video works part of the group exhibition ‘I converse with fire’ at the North Norwegian Art Centre, Svolvær, Norway
Marja Helander’s video works Trambo (2014) and Dolastallat – To have a campfire (2016) (featured image) are part of the group exhibition I converse with fire at the North Norwegian Art Centre in Svolvær, Norway. The exhibition is on view… Read more »
At the Shadow of the World
A surreal journey into the complex relationship between Indigenous peoples and the unstoppable force of technological progress. The film depicts various stages of technological development and their impact on indigenous populations.
Read more »Room
You Saw Nothing
The work explores algorithmic narratives of large language models and so-called generative AI. The starting point of the work was recontextualization of the sentence written by Marguerite Duras from the film "Hiroshima mon amour" (1959): "You didn't see the hospital in Hiroshima".
Read more »If night has fallen, sleep well. The rest is silence, secrets now
Audiovisual poem about late capitalism.
Read more »The Transformative Figure
Mouth wide open
Anssi Kasitonni’s Pena’s Special Hauling selected to Minikino Film Week, Bali, Indonesia (12–19 September, 2025)
Anssi Kasitonni’s Pena’s Special Hauling has been selected to Minikino Film Week 11 – Bali International Short Film Festival, held from 12–19 September, 2025 in Bali, Indonesia. Minikino Film Week, Bali’s International Short Film Festival, launched in 2015 as the… Read more »
Spirits
With & Without Money
{If your bait can sing the wild one will come} Like Shadows Through Leaves
Teak Road
Milja Viita’s The Bomb Factory Girl (2006) to be screened at Vienna Shorts
Milja Viita’s The Bomb Factory Girl (2006) is screened at Vienna Shorts, held from May 27–June 1st, 2025 in Vienna, Austria. In The Bomb Factroy Girl (2006) a woman is telling about her work in the bomb factory during the… Read more »
Marja Helander & Liselotte Wajstedt’s short film In My Hand selected to the 51st Seattle International Film Festival (May 15–25, 2025)
Marja Helander & Liselotte Wajstedt‘s In My Hand has been selected to Seattle International Film Festival, taking place from May 15–25, 2025 in Seattle, US. In My Hand tells the story of the Sámi struggle on both a personal and… Read more »
Pink Twins’ Firewalk (2025) selected to Annecy International Animation Film Festival, France
Pink Twins’ latest film Firewalk is selected to Annecy International Animation Film Festival, held from 8th to 14th June 2025 in Annecy, France. Firewalk will be screened in the Off-Limits category. In Firewalk (2025) a pre-apocalyptic midnight walk takes you… Read more »
Media art and experimental film screening Above & Under at Cinema Orion on Sunday, June 8th
The third Art for Art’s Sake screening of the Spring season is titled Above & Under and invites the viewers to consider the human coexistence with other animals and living beings. The title echoes the age-old division between the earth… Read more »
Am I Calling You at A Bad Time?
On Butterfly Logic
of the sun, that it exists
Danse de la terre
Danse de la terre is a three-channel video installation combining archival footage and Super8 film, exploring the human relationship with time and nature. The work is a tribute to the soil on which we stand, and the plants on which our lives depend.
Read more »Landscape
This work is to comprehend video as painting and solve the problems of relations and subdominance of three-dimensional space using close-up, a mid-distance and a far-distance views. The text is borrowed from a real love letter and becomes an information load corresponding with every view of the image.
Read more »Shared Dreams
Shared Dreams is an essay film where the protagonist is building or searching for a foundation or a home. The visions of everyday life are juxtaposed with dreams and the camera becomes a travel companion. The film was shot mainly on hand developed black and white 16mm film.
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