The Rencontres internationales festival will be held in Paris from May 2–8 2022. The programme includes moving image works by Saara Ekström, Jonna Kina, Jussi Eerola, and Matti Harju.

Saara Ekström’s Shadow Codex (2021, in featured image) will be screened in the programme “Corps glorieux”, taking place in Beaux-Arts de Paris on Wednesday, May 4, at 16:00. Filmed at the abandoned facilities of Turku County Prison (1835–2007), Shadow Codex documents the layers of messages drawn, burned and scratched on cell walls. The Wednesday screening programme in Beaux-Arts continues with the screening “Politique du Paysage“, including Jussi Eerola‘s Obsidian Blue Pearl (2021), a minimalist split-screen road movie. Also placed in Beaux-Arts in the programme “Ecosystem Assembly”, Jonna Kina’s After Life followed by Red Impasto Jar (2021) explores transcendental issues through archaeological and illegal excavations of tombs.

Matti Harju’s Three Days of Rain (2022) will be screened at Centre Wallonie Bruxelles in the screening “Conspiration domestiques“. Part time Twitch streamer, part time drug courier; both low level. Slithering between life and death, online and offline. The carefree summer of global progress seems to be over – are these the final days of both, the illusion of overarching narrative, and of Jerome the Saint.

Rencontres internationales Paris, May 2–8 2022, France

More information: Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin

AV-arkki has promoted and distributed Finnish media art since 1989. AV-arkki’s promotional efforts have made the artists’ participation in this event possible.