Milja Viita’s Q is selected in the international competition of Tricky Women International Animation Filmfestival, held in Vienna, Austria, from March 15–19. Milja Viita’s Q is a conceptual film about forces that change the world. The artist’s firstborn son transformed, in… Read more »
Johanna Lecklin’s Maybe You Can Even Sense… awarded at Fokus Video Festival, Denmark
Johanna Lecklin’s Maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there (2016) won the second prize (EUR 500) at FOKUS, an annual video art festival hosted by Nikolaj Kunsthal. From February 9 to March 9,… Read more »
Milja Viita’s Q and Minna Suoniemi’s Horizontal Dance compete at Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand
Milja Viita’s Q (2016) and Minna Suoniemi’s Horizontal Dance (2016) are selected in the international competition of Videoformes festival, held from March 15–18 in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Q will be screened in programme #2 on Thursday, March 16 at 14:00. Programme… Read more »
Johanna Lecklin’s latest video at FOKUS Video Art Festival, Denmark
Johanna Lecklin’s Maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there (2016) is included in the programme of FOKUS, an annual video art festival hosted by Nikolaj Kunsthal. From February 9 to March 9,… Read more »
Saara Ekström’s Domestic Nature Morte installed in Kadriorg Art Museum, Tallinn
Saara Ekström’s Domestic Nature Morte (2004) is installed in the exhibition “Abundance and Ephemerality. Still Lifes from Finnish and Baltic Collections” in Kadriorg Art Museum, Tallinn, from January 21 to May 14. Saara Ekström gives an artist talk about her… Read more »
Johanna Lecklin’s The Cage competes at International Children’s FF Bangladesh
Johanna Lecklin’s The Cage (2015) is screened in the international competition of 10th International Children’s Film Festival Bangladesh, held from January 24–30. The Cage deals with a memory of a horrible childhood experience. A woman tells about a childhood bullying incident… Read more »
Laura Horelli’s and Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s latest works at Forum Expanded, Berlinale
Laura Horelli’s Jokinen and Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s Studies on the Ecology of Drama have their world festival premiere in the ambitious Forum Expanded programme of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale). The festival is held from February 9–19. Forum Expanded… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 2 Wreck at Punto de Vista Documentary FF, Spain
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 2 Wreck (2016) will have its Spanish premiere in the Short Film Programme of Punto de Vista Documentary Film Festival, held in Navarra, Pamplona, from March 6–11. Waste no. 2 Wreck was filmed in 2014 and 2015… Read more »
Pink Twins and Johanna Lecklin at the 8th Cairo Video Festival
The 8th Cairo Video Festival, held from February 5–28, features works by Pink Twins and Johanna Lecklin. The festival programme includes the single-channel version of Pink Twins’ Parametronomicon (2015). Parametronomicon presents a model of parametric virtual life. A biomechanic organism moves,… Read more »
Finnish media art at the International Film Festival Rotterdam
The programme of the prestigious International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) features four Finnish experimental short films by Mika Taanila, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Antti Jussila & Jari Kallio, Jan Ijäs, and Sasha Huber & Petri Saarikko. Held from January 25 to February… Read more »