Arja Kärkkäinen (b.1986) is a Helsinki based visual artist, who works mainly with sculpture and moving image. We sat down to talk about office work, communication issues specific to Finnish culture, and the ignorance related to consumerism. Arja Kärkkäinen makes… Read more »
Pilvi Takala’s If Your Heart Wants It (Remix) at Rencontres Internationales, Paris
Pilvi Takala’s If Your Heart Wants It (Remix) (2020) will be screened at Rencontres Internationales, held as a hybrid festival in Paris and online from February 23–28. If Your Heart Wants It (Remix) is included in the screening L’homme machine… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s new diptych film After Life followed by Red Impasto Jar selected for Berlinale Forum Expanded
Jonna Kina’s new cinematic work After Life followed by Red Impasto Jar (2021) was selected for Berlinale Forum Expanded. The work is a composition of two separate films exploring transcendental issues through illegal excavations of tombs – a phenomenon faced… Read more »
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth screened at Available Light Film Festival, Yukon
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth (2018) will be screened at Available Light Film Festival, held in Yukon, Canada, from February 5–22. The festival will be arranged as a hybrid of on-site and online screenings. Helander’s short film is included… Read more »
New artists’ moving image in our online archive / January 2021
Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Camille Auer: Seepage (2020, 33:27) The outer limits of a body are porous. We continuously seep into our surroundings and they seep into us…. Read more »
Meet the artist – Jarkko Räsänen
Jarkko Räsänen (b.1984) works with photography, moving image and sound art. Recently he has moved towards computer-based, algorithmic visual works using self-made softwares, including moving image and live vj performances. We discussed his most recent video works and his working… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic awarded as the Best Nordic Film at Minimalen Short Film Festival
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) was awarded as the Best Nordic Film at the 33rd Minimalen Short Film Festival, held online from January 12–17. The jury states: “The film strikes a beautiful balance between imagination, reality and what we choose… Read more »
Several shorts by our artists in the Nordic Competition of Minimalen Short Film Festival
The Nordic Competition of the 33rd Minimalen Short Film Festival includes several short films by our artists. The Norwegian festival is held online from January 12–17 2021. Niina Suominen’s experimental animation What Time Is? (2020) and Maija Blåfield’s award-winning documentary… Read more »
Pilvi Takala’s If Your Heart Wants It (Remix) in the international short film competition of Stuttgart Filmwinter
Pilvi Takala’s If Your Heart Wants It (Remix) (2020) was selected for the international short film competition of Stuttgarter Filmwinter, held online from January 6–20 2021. Takala’s film is included in the International Short Film Competition 3, available from January… Read more »
Our artists’ videos in Ouroboros online film programme hosted by the Finnish Institute in Estonia
Ouroboros is an online film programme hosted by the Finnish Institute in Estonia from December 21–31 2020. You can view the programme here. Connecting the Earth’s oceans and the cosmos, the five video works included in the programme Ouroboros speak… Read more »