Saara Ekström’s Body All Eyes has been selected for the Black Box strand of Edinburgh International Film Festival, held from June 19–30. Inaugurated in 1947, Edinburgh International Film Festival is the world’s longest continually-running film festival. Body All Eyes is… Read more »
Hanne Ivars’s Power and Glory trilogy exhibited in Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art
Hanne Ivars’s Power and Glory trilogy (2013–2014) is installed in the exhibition “Image, Silhouette, and Motion“, open in Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, South Korea, from May 23 to June 23. The Power and Glory animations are quite abstract…. Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 2 Wreck screened at Krakow Film Festival
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 2 Wreck (2016) will be screened at Krakow Film Festival, held from May 26 to June 2. The Kraków Film Festival is one of Europe’s oldest events dedicated to documentary, animation and other short film forms. Waste no. 2 Wreck is included in the… Read more »
Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker and Sami van Ingen’s Flame in the international competition of Videoex, Zürich
Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker (2019) and Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) were selected for the international competition of Videoex, Switzerland’s largest festival dedicated to experimental film and video, held in Zürich from May 25 to June 2. The Stroker is included in… Read more »
Pilvi Takala’s Real Snow White and Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene screened in Lofoten Kulturhus
Pilvi Takala’s Real Snow White (2009) and Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene (2017) will be screened in a film programme included in the exhibition “I lag, i mørket“, curated by Torill Østby Haaland. The screening takes place on Saturday, May… Read more »
Sami van Ingen’s Flame awarded with Optical Sound Award at Flatpack Festival
Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) was awarded with Optical Sound Award at Flatpack Festival, held from April 30 to May 6 in Birmingham, UK. The jury, consisting of Jani Lehto (composer and sound designer, Finland) & Bobbie-Jane Gardner (composer and producer,… Read more »
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth screened in Krakow, Prague, and São Paulo
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth (2018) continues its world tour. On Wednesday, May 15, it will be screened both at Dance Moments 19, Krakow, Poland (curated by Christiane Hartter from Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln), and at Dance Film Festival Prague,… Read more »
World Festival Premiere of Saara Ekström’s Body All Eyes at Sheffield Doc/Fest
Saara Ekström’s Body All Eyes (2018) will have its World Festival Premiere in the Official Selection of Sheffield Doc/Fest, held from June 6–11 in the UK. Doc/Fest is the UK’s biggest documentary festival and the third largest in the world. The screening of… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s and Elli Vuorinen’s short films compete at Leiden International Short Film Experience
Jan Ijäs’s On the Art of the Set Design (2018) and Elli Vuorinen’s Still Lives (2019) were selected among the seven short films in the Competition General Award at Leiden International Short Film Experience (LISFE), held from May 9–12 in… Read more »
Meet the Artist: Martta Tuomaala
Martta Tuomaala (born in 1983) is a media artist based in Helsinki. Tuomaala graduated from Aalto University School of Art and Design in 2014, and her body of work includes mostly installations and short films. Her initial plan, however, was… Read more »