A cautious but curious dog is watching over her yard and gets drawn into a world of appearances where all events past and future only exist for an audience. Available also as a looping installation version.
Read more »Saara Ekström’s Shadow Codex (2021) is screened at several film festivals during September and October. It was selected for the “Experimental International Showcase Shorts Program” at Shorts Mexico, taking place online until September 30. Shadow Codex will also be screened at… Read more »
Jenni Toikka (b.1983) graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2012. She works mainly with moving image. We discussed her works, her inspirations and her future installation on Helsinki’s Music centre’s media wall, the largest digital screen in… Read more »
Nordisk Panorama Film Festival will be held from September 16–21 2021 as an on-site event in Malmö, Sweden. The programme includes several short films from our artists. Maija Tammi’s and Pinja Valja’s short films were selected for the competitions of… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) will be screened in the “Selection Hybride” at Festival Silhouette, taking place from August 27 to September 4 in Parc de la Butte-du-Chapeau-Rouge, Paris. The screening is scheduled for Sunday, August 29, at 14:30. The… Read more »
Pilvi Takala’s If Your Heart Wants It (Remix) (2020) will be screened at Rencontres Internationales Berlin, taking place until August 29 in Haus der Kulturen der Welt and online. Takala’s short film is included in the screening “The Machine Man… Read more »
Elina Oikari’s Govadas (2018, in featured image) and Vesa-Pekka Rannikko’s Multi-Faith Prayer Room (2020) will be screened in the Finnish Focus at Concorto Film Festival, held online from August 21–28. Govadas explores the contradiction and harmony between humans and nature… Read more »
Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival (NEMAF) is held in South Korea from August 19–27. Four artist videos distributed by AV-arkki were selected for the Glocal Propose competition: Eeva-Mari’s Cries etc. (2020, in featured image) by Eeva-Mari Haikala, Liquidity… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s Belgrade Forest Incident… and What Happened to Mr. K? (2020, in featured image), Niina Suominen’s What Time Is? (2020), and Mika Taanila’s Patent Nr. 314805 (2020) will be screened at IndieLisboa, held in Portugal from August 21 –… Read more »
Anni Puolakka’s & Erika Roux’s Vanitas (2019, in featured image), Liinu Grönlund’s & Okku Nuutilainen’s Observe These Words (2021), and Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s Altered Breaths, Future Feelings (2019) are included in a group exhibition “Love Letters from a Burning Building”,… Read more »
Hanna Arvela’s short film Asylum (2016) is included in the film programme related to the group exhibition “Swimming Pool” in Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. The exhibition is open until September 15. The exhibition is curated by Valeria Schulte-Fischedick and the accompanying… Read more »
Mika Taanila’s Failed Emptiness. Time (2021) was selected for the international competition of Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, held from August 11–17 2021. Failed Emptiness. Time is included in the International Competition 2 “In the Sand of Time”. The remaining… Read more »
Maija Tammi’s The Problem of the Hydra (2020) was selected for the European Shorts Competition at Sarajevo Film Festival, held from August 13–20 2021. The screening of The Problem of the Hydra takes place on Wednesday, August 18 in Cineplexx… Read more »
”On Sunday, September 24 2017, I gave a performance with a pine in Nida, The Curonian Spit. I was sitting in the tree for a moment every second hour between 08:00 AM and 08:00 PM. The notes written after each visit have been recorded and added as a voice-over in this video diary.”
Read more »Six walks in the pine forests in Nida on the Curonian Spit between September 7 and 10 2017 are combined in order to depict the experience of the landscape.
Read more »The hypnotically pulsed bottom sediment of a spring in the middle of wilderness is enchanting its viewer. It vibrates with seductive energy that invites us to another realm under the earth. Witnessing the hypnotic experience makes the mirroring surface of the viewer’s soul to bend.
Read more »Featured image: Benjamin Orlow: A Spring Bright Evening (2020) Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Elian Mikkola: Via Karelia (2021, 12:36) Tracing back a lost identity, hidden in the forests… Read more »
Featured image: Anni Kinnunen: Hollow (2018) Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Sami Ala: Waves (2018, 02:27) It is hard to get up and ride on a wave. The video… Read more »
Diego Bruno’s CUT (2021) is part of the Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art EVA International, held from July 2 – August 22 2021. Bruno’s documentary video is included in the Guest Programme “Little Did They Know”, curated by Merve Elveren… Read more »
Saara Ekström’s Amplifier (2017) and Elina Brotherus’s Nu montant un escalator (2017) are included in the exhibition “Liquid Modernity” at Gallery Persons Project, Berlin. Curated by Asia Zak Persons The exhibition is held both on-site and online until July 29…. Read more »
Niina Suominen’s What Time Is? (2020) continues its world tour in July. The experimental animated short film is included in the programmes of both Fest Anča and Melbourne International Animation Festivals. Fest Anča is held online from July 1–11. Suominen’s… Read more »
Link for the Finnish version here The insecurities in the funding status of AVEK (The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture) has made Finnish creators and producers of audiovisual art extremely concerned. The Finnish audiovisual culture is tightly attached to the… Read more »
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic (2020) was awarded as the Best Film LABO in the experimental competition of Prague Shorts, held as a hybrid festival from June 2–27 2021. The jury states: “A jury of representatives from the domestic art… Read more »
Tuomas A. Laitinen’s Haemocyanin (2019) will be screened in the programme “Queer Ecology” on Wednesday, June 23, in Kukoon im Park, Bremen, Germany. The screening is curated and presented by Christine Rüffert. Haemocyanin is based on a strand of artworks… Read more »
CYLAND MediaArtLab presents a video art exhibition and screenings as a part of the Chronotop Summer Festival in Vyborg, Russia, held from June 25 – September 25. The programme includes several works from Finnish artists. The exhibition takes place in… Read more »
Maija Tammi’s The Problem of the Hydra was awarded with the Audience Award in the New Point of View competition of THIS IS SHORT online festival. From April 1 to June 30, the online festival THIS IS SHORT thrilled audiences… Read more »