AV-arkki’s screening expands on our forest theme through experimental shorts.
The forest and depictions of it are an integral part of Finnish art – including media art. In the 1990s, Finnish video art was described as “rustic” and non-urban. However, artists did not venture into the thicket simply to escape the anxiety-inducing modern world. Instead, the forest and its depictions were intertwined with various artistic and sociocultural approaches and emotional registers.
Tytti Rantanen,
AV-arkki, the Centre for Finnish Media Art
Language: Fin, Eng Duration: 68 min Age Limit: 7+
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Thu 7.3. -
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Cine Atlas 3 -
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Sat 9.3.
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16:45
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Niagara
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Suomi-neito
The Maiden of FinlandDirector: Lea Kantonen, Pekka KantonenCountry: FinlandYear: 1988Genre: Experimental, DocumentaryDuration: 12 minAge Limit:
At a wilderness pond, a performer dressed as Maiden Finland threatens her temple with an ax, while she protects her head. A family does everyday chores in a wilderness where trees have been allowed to rot in peace. Shot in the Kessi wilderness area, which spawned a popular movement to protects its trees.
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Metsä
A ForestDirector: Minna ParkkinenCountry: FinlandYear: 2000Genre: Experimental, DocumentaryDuration: 3 minA documentary about the destruction of the childhood landscape.
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Rakas kuusi
Dear SpruceDirector: Annette ArlanderCountry: FinlandYear: 2020Genre: ExperimentalDuration: 6 minThis 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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Pölkyllä pää
Log HeadDirector: Maarit Suomi-VäänänenCountry: Finland, Canada, NorwayYear: 2015Genre: ExperimentalDuration: 11 minAge Limit:
Log Head is an experimental comedy about a birch log with a soul and a pair of skis. When old and useless, and ready to be chopped, Log Head takes off to its skis. Will Log Head’s escape be blocked?
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Feel the Heat
Director: Pasi AutioCountry: FinlandYear: 2022Genre: ExperimentalDuration: 10 minAge Limit:
Feel the Heat depicts a one-man disco in a forest at night, and the atmosphere is magnificent – the lights are flashing, birds are singing, dancing continues and time disappears. The night cannot go on forever and, in the morning, the surrounding reality is revealed.
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Luontoelokuva
A Nature DocumentaryDirector: Joel KarppanenCountry: FinlandYear: 2021Genre: Experimental, DocumentaryDuration: 11 minAge Limit:
An essay film about simulated nature, forest animals, nature photographers and national parks, that combines ecocriticism and image critique, archival and modern day footage, natural soundscape and electronic birds.
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Tummia läikkiä, naisia ja kovakuoriaisia
Dark Blotches, Women and BeetlesDirector: Liisa Karvonen, Ulla VäätäinenCountry: FinlandYear: 1997Genre: ExperimentalDuration: 7 minDark blotches, women and beetles draws its primitive strength from the forest’s spellbinding magic. It traces mysterious messages hidden in trees, on and underlying the surface of cliffs, in the patterns of lichen. Weird creatures travel in dark rivers following the borders of snow, water and ice.
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Survival Guide for a Post-Apocalyptic Child (F)
Director: Nastja Säde RönkköCountry: FinlandYear: 2023Genre: ExperimentalDuration: 7 minF is for forest, and in this forest I arrive alone. To know your plants is key in foraging and to address your hunger is key to survival in here. The film is part of Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s 26-part video series, based on the 26 letters of the alphabet.
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Dump a Bushel of Lemons in a Northern Forest in Winter
Kaada vakallinen sitruunoita pohjoiseen metsään talvellaDirector: Elina BrotherusCountry: FinlandYear: 2017Genre: ExperimentalDuration: 1 minAfter Geoffrey Hendricks, Dump a bushel of lemons in a Northern forest in winter, from Bici and Geoffrey Hendricks, The Friday Book of White Noise, 1963–1965.
