A film about how language, be it film, art or written language, creates in itself a system where separation precedes contact.
Read more »Aliens
Matti Harju
New work
Afrikka
Matti Harju
New work
Nerve-wracking and frayed experimental fiction that shows a psychotic man and his direct surroundings in a totally uncompromising way. Our interaction with others is based on the idea that we all share the same reality. That turns out not always to be the case.
Read more »The Incredible Beauty of Forgetting
Dave Berg
New work
A story of the consequences of the past unprocessed pictured in a dystopian dream.
Read more »Sketch for the Last Map
Lauri Astala
New work
In the core of Sketch for the Last Map, overlapping translucent indoor and outdoor spaces relate to the multi-layered and placeless world in our digital era. Many faces of cities – private spaces, less “public” realities, cleared, restricted or fenced off out of sight - stay excluded from maps and the... Read more »
Videos by HNV Collective, Pink Twins, and Niina Suominen at Videomedeja
25th International New Media Art Festival Videomedeja is held from October 14–16 2021 in Novi Sad, Serbia. Honkasalo-Niemi-Virtanen Collective’s Atomic (2020, in featured image) and Pink Twins’ The Eternal (2021) were selected for the competitions of the festival. Atomic will… Read more »
Milja Viita’s and Arttu Nieminen’s short films at 20minmax ISFF Ingolstadt
Milja Viita’s When We Are Nothing Left (2020) and Arttu Nieminen’s Ultima Kaltio (2021) are screened at 20minmax International Short Film Festival Ingolstadt, held both on-site and online from October 13–21 2021. Viita’s short film will be screened in “Night… Read more »
The Time of a Slime Mold
Leena Pukki
New work
The movement of slime mold is combined with pattern subjects selected from Karelian thread blankets. Slime molds are primitive Amoebozoa organisms that can move even they do not have a brain or nervous system. The poem heard in the background expresses themes of time, circulation and decomposing.
Read more »Breaks at Dawn
Nina-Maria Oförsagd
New work
In Breaks at Dawn we move in the hours when it is dark and nothing happens, outside of everyday reality in an interstice before a metropolis wakes up. What happens in the surroundings when time has no relevance?
Read more »Arrangement non-existent
Nina-Maria Oförsagd
New work
Arrangement non-existent is a short film on how time is experienced now, in motion, at place. During an improvised performance in a selected location, two characters become connected through movement, and their movement grows into a larger pattern combined with sound, poetry, and words. Isolated from each other, the... Read more »
Risto-Pekka Blom’s Please Leave a Message After the Tone at Offline Film Festival, Ireland
Risto-Pekka Blom’s Please Leave a Message After the Tone (2021) will be screened at OFFline Film Festival, held in Birr, Ireland, from October 13–17 2021. The screening of Blom’s film will take place on Saturday, October 16 at 11:00 in… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic awarded with the First Prize at Videoex, Zürich – also in view in Canada, Lanzarote, and Luxembourg
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) was awarded with the first prize (ex aequo with Suneil Sanzgiri’s Letter from Your Far-Off Country, 2020) at Videoex Experimental Film & Video Festival, held in Zürich from October 1–10 2021. “Both films employ experimental,… Read more »
Framed
Okku Nuutilainen
New work
Three seagulls fly in the fog, each in their own video projection. The framing of the images changes as the seagulls are kept in the centre of the images. In a black space, the projections create the sides of a white cube, that almost comes together over and over again.
Read more »Four Trick Pony
Pia Andell
New work
Four Trick Pony (2020) is a video installation constructed of the personal film and video archives of two documentarists. Based on prime numbers, the work uncouples itself from the bonds of documentary cinema, the tradition of narrativity, and the logic of causality. It never repeats the same twice.... Read more »
An Island at Sea
Okku Nuutilainen
New work
Two barking dogs are running around an island. A camera at sea is following them. The image changes in size and that creates an illusion of distance. An odd sense of treat is created as the video gaze is sizing up the island.
Read more »My Home
Azar Saiyar
New work
"A bee stung me on my finger. It happened yesterday in the yard of a kindergarten, even though I am not in kindergarten anymore.” Fragmented memories of childhood and adulthood blend together in a song that an unknown narrator is humming. In a sixties TV show children are learning a new game. Someone is waiting in the... Read more »
Evolution In Standstill
Petteri Cederberg
New work
The animation contemplates the effects of isolation and forced standstill on the life of an individual. During the prolonged isolation the view shifts from the world and future inwards. Where one actually is and what has one achieved in one’s life? What will remain from all of it? After the constant movement and... Read more »
Split
Okku Nuutilainen
New work
The picture is split in half. There is a man and a woman, each in their own picture. They have their own houses, their own paths, but a connection between them is created by editing. They seem to communicate and even face each other.
Read more »Free
Okku Nuutilainen
New work
A goose lives in an old greenhouse. Brief moments of its life are captured on 8 mm film and a female voice recounts its story. As we hear footsteps approaching in the snow, it is unclear what it means for the goose. What happens to an animal when it is no longer useful?
Read more »After Man
Jenni Luhta
New work
Efter Människan (After Man) is based on prophecies and riddles of Leonardo da Vinci's (1452–1517) working diaries. It shows a picture of the future where the body and its sacredness has been eradicated in a landscape where drones and mammoths will replace humanity.
Read more »Diego Bruno at BIENALSUR, Buenos Aires
Diego Bruno is one of the selected artists at BIENALSUR, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from October 5 – December 11. Bruno’s video CUT (2021) is included in the exhibition “The Eye of the Hurricane“, open in Centro Cultural Universitario… Read more »
Two short films by Marja Viitahuhta in the showcase of Finnish films in Madrid
Two short films by Marja Viitahuhta, Ask the Foremothers (2019) and Dreamscapes (2020), will be screened in the showcase of Finnish films in Madrid, Centro Cultural Carril del Conde, on Saturday, October 9 at 19:00. This year, the entire showcase… Read more »
Sasha Huber’s Haïti Chérie screened at International Short Film Festival of Cyprus
Sasha Huber’s Haïti Chérie (2011) will be screened at International Short Film Festival of Cyprus, held from October 9–15. Haïti Chérie is included in the programme “Words on Film“, screened on Wednesday, October 13, at 17:30 in Rialto Theatre on… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Deus ex Machina at Curtocircuito IFF
Anssi Kasitonni’s Deus ex Machina (2021) was selected for the RADAR Competition of Curtocircuito International Film Festival held from October 2–10 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Deus ex Machina will be screened on Friday, October 8, at 18:00 in Teatro… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic in the International Competition of Videoex Experimental Film & Video Festival
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic was selected for the international competition of Videoex Experimental Film & Video Festival, held from October 1–10 2021 in Zürich, Switzerland. The Fantastic will be screened in the International Competition 4 on Tuesday, October 5, at… Read more »
The Deluge
Jenni Luhta
New work
Syndafloden (“The Deluge”) is the first full-length film by Jenni and Lauri Luhta. It is based on Leonardo da Vinci’s more than 500-year-old prophecies and riddles, which in the film are narrated by Swedish-speaking Death, played by Jenni Luhta. The film shows the crises of the present world and the images... Read more »
Mika Taanila’s Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow at “Open House” exhibition in Geneva
Mika Taanila’s Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow (1998) is on view at “Open House” exhibition about mobile housing in Geneva, Switzerland. The exhibition is taking place in Bains des Pâquis and Maison de l’architecture until October 3 2021…. Read more »
Ánnámáret’s concert Imaginary Landscapes with Marja Viitahuhta’s visuals at Tallinn Music Week
A Sámi musician Ánnámáret will perform her multiform concert Imaginary Landscapes (Nieguid Douvdagat) at Tallinn Music Week on Saturday, October 2 2021. The concert takes place in Folktronica Stage. In Imaginary Landscapes, yoiking, the playing of the bowed lyre jouhikko,… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s Akiya at Filmfest Sundsvall
Jonna Kina’s Akiya (2020) is screened at Filmfest Sundsvall, held in Sweden and online from September 29 – October 3 2021. The screening of Akiya takes place on Friday, October 1. In Akiya, a reel-to-reel tape recorder plays a song… Read more »
Films by Jari Kallio & Essi Vesala, Iona Roisin, and Taija Goldblatt at queer and feminist film festivals
Three short films by AV-arkki’s artists were screened at various queer and feminist film festivals in September 2021. Jari Kallio’s and Essi Vesala’s Magma (2020, in featured image) was screened at The Palace International Film Festival in Bristol from September… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s and Jussi Eerola’s films at Tirana International Film Festival and other venues
Jan Ijäs’s and Jussi Eerola’s films keep circulating. Both Ijäs’s Waste vol. 1 (2020, in the featured image) and Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic (2020) are screened at Tirana International Film Festival, running until September 30 2021. Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic… Read more »