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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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 »
Maija Tammi’s The Problem of the Hydra awarded as the best short film at the 57th international Festival of Science Documentary Films, Olomouc
Maija Tammi’s The Problem of the Hydra (2020) won the international short film competition of the 57th International Festival of Science Documentary Films, Olomouc, held from April 26 to May 1 2022 in Academia Film Olomouc, Czech Republic. The jury states… Read more »
The Swirl
Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen’s exhibition “This Is Not a Rehabilitation Project” in Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen’s private exhibition “This Is Not a Rehabilitation Project” is open until July 3 2022 in Artport Gallery in Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada. Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen’s work deals with disability politics, aesthetics of assistive devices and gender issues related to… Read more »
Laura Horelli’s Namibia Today in the group exhibition “Revolutionary Romances – Prologue” in Albertinum, Dresden
Laura Horelli’s Namibia Today (2017) is included in the group exhibition “Revolutionary Romances – Prologue” in Albertinum, Dresden. The exhibition is open until July 17 2022. The exhibition and research project Revolutionary Romances. Transcultural Art Histories in the GDR focuses on the… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s new installation Four Sculptures in Fifteen Pieces in Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn
Jonna Kina’s new installation Four Sculptures in Fifteen Pieces (2022) is on view in Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, until October 2 2022. Four Sculptures in Fifteen Pieces is commissioned by Lappeenranta Art Museum in collaboration with Art Museum of Estonia. Kina’s… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic screened at Québec International Festival of Ethnographic Films Montréal
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) will be screened at Québec International Festival of Ethnographic Films (FIFEQ), held in Montréal from May 11-15 2022. The screening of The Fantastic takes place on Thursday, May 12, at 20:50. The Fantastic is a film… 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
Time, transience, and presence through interpretation, repetition, and imitation.
Read more »New Animations, Documentary Films & Videos, and Installations in Our Archive / Spring ’22
Featured image from: Jarkko Räsänen: Change (2022) Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. animations Nuutti Koskinen: Talk About Society (2019, 17:55) Talk About Society is a video work combining video images… Read more »
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 »
Short films by Saara Ekström, Jonna Kina, Jussi Eerola, and Matti Harju at Rencontres internationales Paris
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… Read more »
Plenty of Finnish artists’ moving image at the 68th ISFF Oberhausen
The 68th edition of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen will be held from April 30 – May 9 2022. The online programme of the festival is available from April 30 to May 3 on the festival platform. Matti Harju‘s… Read more »
Men At 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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Citizen Surgery Research Kitchen: Baking DermaBread
DermaBread
Maija Tammi’s and Kaisu Koski’s short films at 57th International Festival of Science Documentary Films, Olomouc
Maija Tammi’s The Problem of the Hydra (2020, in featured image) and Kaisu Koski’s DermaBread (2021) will be screened at the 57th International Festival of Science Documentary Films, held from April 26 to May 1 2022 in Academia Film Olomouc,… Read more »
Bond
I've been bad but I've been good too
New Bugs
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.
Read more »Dear Spruce
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.
Read more »Dear Birch
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.
Read more »Pink Twins’ The Eternal and Matti Harju’s El Centro selected for the New Point of View competition of THIS IS SHORT online festival
Pink Twins’ The Eternal (2021, in featured image) and Matti Harju’s El Centro (2021) were selected for the New Point of View European Online Competition of THIS IS SHORT festival. The Eternal is streamed at THIS IS SHORT platform from… Read more »
End of the line
Two men limewashing the tracks of the sport ground.
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Four episodes of runners in Helsinki City Marathon.
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