Assembling

Sari Nordman
New work

An environmentally-themed video featuring two performers dressed in red overalls. Their bodies are shifting slowly and awkwardly as they attempt to find comfort in an urban landscape that has been filled with cute-colored trash.

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Ancient dreams

New work
The memories and documented imagery of reindeer herding and nomadic ways of life mix with the contemporary herding of reindeers in Dolos Niegut - Ancient dreams, an experimental music video to a track by Ánnámáret, Ilkka Heinonen and Turkka Inkilä from the album Nieguid duovdagat. How we perceive... Read more »

I

Anu Pennanen
New work
What if our greatest fear is not death but worthless life? Fifty years old Kati occupies a top position in a large company. Disappointed in life, leaving work she embarks on a journey into the end of despair. Encounter with another woman at night fails. Kati flees the world hiding inside a forest bunker. A flourishing... Read more »

Helka Heinonen’s The Swirl screened at BelDocs

Helka Heinonen’s The Swirl (2022) will be screened at BelDocs International Documentary Film Festival, held from May 11-18 2022 in Belgrade, Serbia. If nothing happens, why is it better not to tell about it? The Swirl examines boundaries on the… Read more »

The Swirl

Helka Heinonen
New work
If nothing happens, why is it better not to tell about it? The Swirl examines boundaries on the turning point of growing up. At the end of the school year, a 12-year-old girl gets an exceptional gift from her teacher, a trip up north. They travel together. As an adult, she re-examines her experience. The work studies... Read more »

New Short Fictions in Our Archive / Spring ’22

Featured image from: Anssi Kasitonni: Le Saboteur (2022) Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Alisa Javits: Dialogues (2022, 15:58) Dialogues is a video about drug misuse and depression. One character… Read more »

New Performative Videos in Our Archive / Spring ’22

Featured image from: Sara Pathirane: Seahorses (2021) Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Annette Arlander: Day with Old Tjikko 1 (2019, 17:45) The video depicts a day with Old Tjikko,… Read more »

Is All

Sini Pelkki
New work

Time, transience, and presence through interpretation, repetition, and imitation. 

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New Artists’ Moving Image in Our Archive / Spring ’22

Featured image from: Minna Suoniemi: I’ve been bad but I’ve been good too (2022) Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Sami Ala: Holy Spear (2022, 01:56) Holy Spear is a… Read more »

Men At Work

Panu Johansson
New work

This found footage film follows one average workday in a factory environment. With a little fast forward and rewind everything around, the machines and the people working with them, becomes one. The industrial mood is completed with a soundtrack consisting of readymade loops and samples.

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DermaBread Participatory Performance

Kaisu Koski
New work
This participatory performance offers surgical and anatomical training through the experience of tasting. The participants will engage with sensory skills acquisition, simulation, and the relationship between (non)human animal bodies and food through the experimental simulator DermaBread. DermaBread simulates the anatomy of... Read more »

Citizen Surgery Research Kitchen: Baking DermaBread

Kaisu Koski
New work
Enter the Citizen Surgery Research Kitchen. The team is developing a new recipe for a surgical simulator DermaBread in front of a Zoom audience. The session exposes the negotiations, materialities and temporalities involved in co-creation of edible vegan surgery simulators. The team tests various ingredients and techniques... Read more »

DermaBread

Kaisu Koski
New work
This short film introduces an edible surgical training simulator DermaBread. With DermaBread, one can learn about the anatomy of the skin, train their perception of depth, and practice diagnostics by taste. This particular demonstration highlights the difference between superficial and deep injury. DermaBread is part of the... Read more »

Bond

New work
Bond portrays a mother and a son in what appears to be a wrestling bond that the mother repeatedly attempts to escape without succeeding. Closeness and battle intertwine in the protagonists’ bodily struggle. In her work, Suoniemi draws parallels with the bodily, psychological and societal bonds between and within her... Read more »

I've been bad but I've been good too

New work
I’ve been bad but I’ve been good too intertwines the materiality of film with the materiality of the ageing body and transgenerational bodily experience of excessiveness and being in-excess. The child-like uncanny narration addresses the protagonist’s foremothers, and all women and mothers through... Read more »

New Bugs

Miia Rinne
New work

In New Bugs, things merge, collide, and intrude into each other. At one point, bird eats worms, and the second moment worms eat carcass of a bird. Everything goes around. New Bugs is the sixth part in Rinne’s series of films that construct image and sound by layering and recycling analog and digital fragments.

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Dear Spruce

Annette Arlander
New work

This letter to a spruce was performed with a spruce in Mustarinda in northeastern Finland on 25 September 2020. The artist read the letter written to the spruce in Finnish, recorded it as a voice-over to the video, translated it and added English subtitles.

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Dear Birch

Annette Arlander
New work

This letter to a birch was performed with a birch in Mustarinda on 29 September 2020. The artist read the letter written to the birch in Swedish, recorded it as a voice-over to the video, translated it and added English subtitles.

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