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 collaboration with Screen Pills, filmmakers, new media artists, communities, and cinephiles, has since 2023 organized a multi-day film festival in Surabaya.

Leena Lehti: Existence II (2025).

Excistence II (2025) focuses on bees, proposing a gaze filled with curiosity and compassion. The bees seen in the hand processed film died due to winter loss. Existence is an experimental short film trilogy dedicated to insects and life. The title refers to the alarming decline in insect populations.

Leena Lehti is a media artist who works in Tampere, Finland. In her works, she uses old handmade film techniques combined with digital video and photography. Lehti’s films has been shown in screenings, art exhibitions and film festivals in Finland and abroad.

Müge Yıldız’s Non/Living (2024) is an exploration that delves into the collaboration between living organisms; Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker’s yeasts) and non-living, a ghost archaeologist. The film tries to find an approach between human and nonhuman beings while investigating ecological filmmaking and materialist films. Müge Yıldız held several experiments to find the best recipe to produce a movie with microorganisms, focusing on the intersection of art and science, including process-based experimentation and surface-based or cameraless filmmaking.

Müge Yıldız is a Turkish artist-filmmaker and researcher currently based in Finland. She received the Finnish Cultural Foundation Grant to pursue her doctoral research at Aalto University, Department of Art and Media.

She was prior to this awarded the Finland Scholarship to study Visual Cultures, Curating, and Contemporary Art (ViCCA) at Aalto University School of Arts, Design, and Architecture in Espoo, where she completed her MA. Earlier in her academic journey, she studied Cinema and Philosophy at Galatasaray University in Istanbul, Turkey, and expanded her education through cinema courses as an Erasmus exchange student at Paris 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle in France.

Kinekini Moving Image Screening & Exhibition
31 May–15 June 2025
Surabaya, Indonesia

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