A thorough showcase “Nordic Avant-Garde – Moving Images from the North”, including several treasures from AV-arkki’s archive, will be screened at International Film Festival Message to Man. The programme is curated by Swedish curator Martin Grennberger. IFF Message to Man is held from September 14–21 in St. Petersburg.
Video and 16 mm film screenings will take place at Aurora Cinema on September 15-19, film directors will attend. Finnish programme guests are Sami van Ingen and Mika Taanila.
The Finnish avant-garde films included in the programme are:
Eino Ruutsalo: Is This the World of Teddy? (1969, 09:20)
Eino Ruutsalo: Kinetic Pictures (1962, 04:49)
Eino Ruutsalo: Two Chickens (1963, 03:20)
Seppo Renvall: -..- (1995, 05:25)
Seppo Renvall: Circle of the Day (1993, 02:45)
Seppo Renvall: The Price of Our Liberty (1990, 08:10)
Seppo Renvall: Globe – Encyclopedia (1995, 06:15)
Sami van Ingen: Moving Emu (1992, 02:29)
Sami van Ingen: Hammu (1991, 09:50)
Sami van Ingen: Pines (1992, 02:43)
Sami van Ingen: Finnmunka (1993, 11:20)
Mika Taanila: I like this silence (1989, 01:32)
Mika Taanila: A Summer Trip (2006, 03:00)
Alli Savolainen: My Family (1998, 03:35)
Marjatta Oja: Tests nros 5 & 6 (2006, 03:00)
Marjatta Oja: Tests nros 7 & 8 (2006, 03:00)
Mika Taanila: The Zone of Total Eclipse (2006, 06:00)
Erkki Kurenniemi & Jan Bark: Spindrift (1966/2013, 14:00)
Mika Taanila: Man and Science (2011, 00:27)
Mika Taanila: Branches (2017, 06:07)
The programme Nordic Avant-Garde – Moving Image from the North is supported by Nordic Weeks in St Petersburg and Nordic Council of Ministers, which in 2019 is chaired by Iceland. Programme Partners: Embassy of Iceland in Moscow, Consulate General of Finland in St Petersburg, Danish Cultural Institute, The Finnish Institute in St Petersburg, Consulate General of Sweden in St Petersburg, Committee for External Relations of St Petersburg, etc.
International Film Festival Message to Man, September 14–21 2019, St. Petersburg, Russia
More information: IFF Message to Man