Hexual Spellings is a story of a company based in New York in the late 1980′s that provided custom made visual spells in the form of video production. Spells were made-to-order based on customer requests, and were delivered on tapes to be played in Video Home Systems. These visual spells could be used for protection,... Read more »
Mox Mäkelä’s Andjust and Jenni & Lauri Luhta’s The Deluge awarded at Innuendo Film Festival
Mox Mäkelä’s Andjust (2020, in featured image) and Jenni and Lauri Luhta’s The Deluge were awarded at Innuendo Film Festival, held from October 27-30 2021 in Milan, Italy. Andjust was awarded as the best experimental film while The Deluge was… Read more »
Minna Rainio’s and Mark Roberts’ To Teach a Bird to Fly at DokumentArt Festival, Germany
Minna Rainio’s and Mark Roberts’ To Teach a Bird to Fly (2020) is screened at DokumentArt Festival, held in Neubrandenburg, Germany, from November 23–27 2021. The film will be screened on Thursday, November 25, at 17:00 in Kino Latücht as… Read more »
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth screened at Porto/Post/Doc
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth (2018) is included in the programme of Porto/Post/Doc, held from November 20–30 in Porto, Portugal, and online. Birds in the Earth is part of the screening “Ideas to Postpone the End of the World”…. Read more »
Pilvi Takala’s If Your Heart Wants It (Remix) competes at Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival
Pilvi Takala’s If Your Heart Wants It (Remix) (2020) will be screened in the international competition of Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, held from November 17–21 2021 in Romania. The screening of Takala’s short film takes place on Saturday, November… Read more »
Short films by Flis Holland, Maija Tammi, and Jari Kallio & Essi Vesala at Kasseler DokFest
Jari Kallio’s and Essi Vesala’s Magma (2020, in featured image), Flis Holland’s Subserotic Bulge (2021), and Maija Tammi’s The Problem of the Hydra (2020) are screened at Kasseler DokFest, held from November 16–21 2021 on-site and online. All on-site screenings… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s Belgrade Forest Incident… and What Happened to Mr. K? screened at La Cabina International Medium-length Film Festival
Jan Ijäs’s Belgrade Forest Incident… and What Happened to Mr. K? (2020) will be screened at La Cabina International Medium-Length Film Festival, held in Valencia from November 9–19 2021. The screening of Ijäs’s documentary film takes place on Saturday, November… Read more »
Morrison & Friends
Paula Lehtonen
New work
Documentary videoart piece Morrison & Friends depicts interspecies communications between humans and an alpaca. Morrison alpaca works with animal-assisted activities and alpaca therapy, visiting nursing homes with his trainer Tarja Jokinen. As a therapy animal, Morrison is used to interacting with people and he is not... Read more »
Claim road Aurajoki
Anne Lehtelä
New work
Claim Road is a continuous series of works based on running. At the exhibition place, the work will be shown as a live stream of the progress of the run. In a work detached from materiality, public space is conquered through action. Claim road Aurajoki is a snippet recording from a 3-day live streamed run.
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Sara Pathirane
New work
Dance video work Parasols is a dreamlike flit in a meadow lined with large plague root leaves. The work is like a moving postcard from colonial times in East Asia. The music of the dance video leads to soundscape reminds of sounds in between plants and soundscape of dewdrops.
Read more »Jukka Silokunnas’ Transporter screened at Reggio Film Festival
Jukka Silokunnas’ Transporter was screened at Reggio Film Festival in the international short film contest. The festival is held from October 26 – November 8 2021 in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Transporter is a stop motion animation about a forgotten van. Odometer… Read more »
Flames
“When we pass from this world to another, the flames of our ancestors will be waiting for us.” - Ánnámáret. A video work with the yolk Dolat by Ánnámáret, from her album “Nieguid duovdagat”. In the video, embers and fire particles twirl in the air,... Read more »
Taiga
Leena Lehti
New work
Elegy to the boreal forest. With the warming climate, the borders of different life zones move towards the North, and the conifer as we know it is changing and disappearing. Taiga is made on 16mm film without camera. It combines hand scratched animation with real tiny plants and moss collected in subarctic region in... Read more »
Mox Mäkelä’s films screened at Innuendo Film Festival and Girona Film Festival
Mox Mäkelä’s films will be screened in Italy and Spain. Feature-length audio-play movie Andjust (2020, in featured image) will be screened at Innuendo Film Festival, held from October 27-30 2021 in Milan, Italy. Short film aback (2021) is included in… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic screened in Cambodia, Azerbaijan, and Lithuania
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic keeps traveling. The short documentary film was recently screened at Chaktomuk Short Film Festival, held in Cambodia from October 22-27 2021. Next screenings take place in DokuBaku International Documentary Film Festival, held from November 3-7 2021… Read more »
Maija Tammi’s The Problem of the Hydra travels from New York and Belo Horizonte to Arcueil
Maija Tammi’s essay film The Problem of the Hydra (2020) was recently screened at ImagineScience Film Festival, held in New York from October 15-22 2021. Next screenings will be Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, held from November 4-14 2021… Read more »
Risto-Pekka Blom’s, Azar Saiyar’s, and Mika Taanila’s short films selected for “In Silico” competition of IFF Message to Man
Risto-Pekka Blom’s Please Leave a Message After the Tone (2021, in featured image), Azar Saiyar’s Laila’s Apple (2021), and Mika Taanila’s Failed Emptiness. Time (2021) were selected for the experimental “In Silico” competition at International Film Festival Message to Man,… Read more »
Jaakko Pietiläinen’s, Marja Helander’s, and Elina Oikari’s short films at Nordic Film Days Lübeck
Jaakko Pietiläinen’s Shrouds Have No Pockets (2021, in featured image), Marja Helander’s Suodji (2020), and Elina Oikari’s Flying Potato and Other Misunderstandings (2021) were picked for the short film selection of Nordic Film Days Lübeck, held from November 3-7 2021… Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s retrospective at Uppsala International Short Film Festival
The 40th Uppsala International Short Film Festival presents a retrospective of Azar Saiyar’s short films. The festival is held from October 25-31 2021, and the screening of Saiyar’s retrospective takes place on Saturday, October 30, in film theater Fyris. The… Read more »
Dissortion
Jade Kallio
New work
Dissortion is a poetic depiction of longing on the obscure border of real and delusion. Two bodies detached from a Baroque painting seek touch - they cling to each other, wandering timeless rooms that localize in mind rather than matter. Desire and violence, genders and epochs mix into a fragmented love story.
Read more »Prelude Op. 28 No. 2
During a single long shot, we see two people taking turns playing the piano and listening alternately. The piece is the same on both times - Preludi Op. 28 No. 2 by Chopin - but when the performer changes, the interpretation of the song changes along with the perspective from which the song and its performance are viewed.... Read more »
How it was?
Sami Ala
New work
Four people who lived in the same apartment building at different times tell what it was like to live in the house. They tell about their apartment and the spaces they knew and the spaces they were aware of but never visited. Are all places, spaces ultimately mere states of mind?
Read more »Mika Taanila’s films touring Europe from Portugal to St. Petersburg
Mika Taanila’s Failed Emptiness. Time (2021) and other films are screened at various film festivals around Europe. Failed Emptiness. Time is screened at the moment at DocLisboa, in the “New Visions” strand. The festival is held on-site and online from… Read more »
Videos by Elina Brotherus in the Nordic House at the Faroe Islands
18-31 October 2021, the Nordic House at the Faroe Islands is showing five video works by Elina Brotherus from the series called Règle du jeu (rules of the game). In the videos, Elina Brotherus is following various instructions from other artists’ performance… Read more »
New animations by Pink Twins and Marja Viitahuhta at Fredrikstad Animation Festival, Norway
Pink Twins’ The Eternal (2021, in featured image) and Marja Viitahuhta’s Dolat (2021) are screened at Fredrikstad Animation Festival, held from October 21–24 2021 in Norway and online. The Eternal is included in the “Abstraction” showcase, taking place on Thursday,… Read more »
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic at Athens International Film + Video Festival, the United States
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic (2020) is screened at Athens International Film + Video Festival, held in the United States from October 15–24 2021. The screening of Blue Honda Civic takes place on Friday, October 22, at 13:00. The romantic… Read more »
Finnish Focus at Fracto Experimental Film Encounter, Berlin
Fracto Experimental Film Encounter is presenting this year a Finnish Focus. The event is held from October 21–24 2021 in Berlin, Kunsthaus Acud. The Finnish Focus screenings take place in Acud Kino on Thursday, October 21 at 21:30 and on… Read more »
The 1m3 of Human Experiment
Charles Quevillon
New work
The 1m3 of Human Experiment is a vivid, claustrophobic, and possibly an occasionally nauseating artwork that examines the problematic separation of mind and body and questions the trustworthiness of our senses. In the work, a human confined in a square box tries to make sense of his world. A cable coming out of his mouth... Read more »
Down to the Water
Paula Saraste
New work
A story of a small family escaping their home at night. They embark a journey towards an unknown destination and go missing. The father drives his family to an increasingly despaired state and finally he ends up in confusion and loneliness. It is a story of an end of a family. The daughter and mother gradually liberate... Read more »
Minus World
Matti Harju
New work
Nintendo game, codeine and online bdsm all blend in this minimalist speculation circling and edging towards a new view of otherness within.
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