Pink Twins’ The Transient and Hanna Hovitie’s Square the Circle selected for the competitions of Bueu International Film Festival FICBUEU, Spain

Pink Twins’ The Transient (2023, in featured image) and Hanna Hovitie’s Square the Circle (2023) were selected for the competitions of Bueu International Film Festival FICBUEU, held in Bueu, Spain from September 9–23 2023.

The Transient is included in the Discoveries competition, screened on Sunday, September 10 2023, at 21:30. What is The Transient? It is that fleeting moment when you question what you are seeing, when uncanny valley takes over and when harmonious wildlife is revealed as a monstrous result of cloning and obsessive manipulation of nature. Or the moment when you ignore the lure of the real and give in to the overwhelming beauty of growth, the blooming of spring and the glow of midsummer night. Real, based on a true story, artificial, imaginary, a natural paradise, an apocalyptic corruption of nature. The Transient is all of these things and more.

Pink Twins was formed in 1997 by brothers Juha and Vesa Vehviläinen, artists, filmmakers and electronic musicians, born and raised in Helsinki, Finland. Since starting in the hotbed of arts and underground music that was turn-of-the-millennium Helsinki, Pink Twins have polished their musical and visual output into a distinctive and superimmersive audiovisual mayhem. The colourful, abstract cyclic flow of their animation works focus on human perception, its functionality and limits. In their audiovisual live performances Pink Twins create a wholesome and transformative experience with an extremely detailed wall of sound and immersive video projections. Pink Twins have presented their works in exhibitions and festivals on all continents and performed audiovisual live shows through Europe, Americas, Asia and Australia.

Hanna Hovitie: Square the Circle (2023)

Square the Circle will be screened in the official competition 3 on Wednesday, September 13 2023, at 19:00, and on Thursday, September 14 2023, at 21:30. How to be a circle in a square world? In a two-dimensional space, out of time, a person seeks their belonging to the world through a journey to infinity.

Hanna Hovitie (born 1991) is a film director and video artist from Helsinki, Finland. Her films have been shown and awarded at several prominent international festivals such as DOK Leipzig, Melbourne International Film Festival, Sheffield DocFest, and International Film Festival Rotterdam.


Bueu International Film Festival FICBUEU, September 9–23 2023, Bueu, Spain

More information: FICBUEU


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