speakers.
Martin Grennberger
Martin Grennberger (SE) is a writer and film programmer based in Stockholm. He has curated screenings at Light Industry (New York), EXiS (Experimental Film and Video Festival, Seoul), International Film Festival Message to Man, Saint Petersburg.
Petteri Kalliomäki
Petteri Kalliomäki, born in Ylöjärvi, Finland 1982. Film projecting and
film club activities since 2006 under Keski-Suomen elokuvakeskus,
Jyväskylä (film club Toveruus, "Comradeship" etc.). After digitalization
of mainstream cinemas in 2012 has concentrated solely on presenting and
preserving films on analogue format. MA majoring in Finnish history
2014. Artistic leader and producer of film festivals Arktisen upeeta
2012 & 2013, Saarijärven elokuvaviikko 2014, Artova Film Festival 2015.
Film projectionist and programme planner since 2016 at WHS Teatteri
Union, Helsinki. Archivist responsible for National Audiovisual
Institute's (former Finnish Film Archive's) foreign film collection
since 2018, also part of Institute's programme team at Kino Regina,
Helsinki. Other film activities include maintaining a webpage
filmikulttuuri.fi that informes about Finnish analogue film screenings,
children programming at Midnight Sun Film Festival (Sodankylä) since
2015 and live cinema performances with his wife, visual artist Natalia
Kozieł-Kalliomäki.
Greg Pope
Greg Pope (NO/UK) is an artist and filmmaker based in Oslo, Norway. After dabbling in punk rock bands and absurdist performance, he founded film collective ‘Situation Cinema’ (Brighton 1986) and ‘Loophole Cinema’ (London, 1989). Working collaboratively and individually, Pope has made video installations, live art and single-screen film works since 1996.
Eglė Razumaitė
Eglė Razumaitė (LT) is an artist based in Vilnius, Lithuania. She was a participant of the art centre Rupert’s alternative education programme and, in 2019, she founded analogue film studio Spongé. Her works are mostly motion-picture, audio-visual or photographic. Razumaitė is a part of the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute and is deeply concerned with the history of civilizations, nationality, attachment to a specific land or space, and dialectics of inclusion and exclusion to the centres of power.
Leif Magne Tangen
moderator
Leif Magne Tangen (b. 1978 in Reine and Lofoten) is a curator and writer with contemporary art and experimental films as his main interests.
Mika Taanila
Mika Taanila (FI) is a filmmaker and visual artist. He works with documentaries, experimental film and visual arts. Human engineering, utopias, failures and man-machines are recurring themes in his films and installations. Taanila’s works have been shown at major international group shows, such as Venice Biennale (Nordic Pavilion 2017), Aichi Triennale (2013), and dOCUMENTA (2012).
Ingel Vaikla
Ingel Vaikla (EE) is visual artist and filmmaker based in Brussels. Vaikla’s artistic research focuses on the relationship between architecture and its users, and the representation of architecture in photography, video and film. Her works have been screened internationally at film festivals and art institutions such as IDFA in Amsterdam, Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna, Tramway in Glasgow, Beursschouwburg in Brussels, Manifesta 13 in Marseille etc.
Kari Yli-Annala
keynote speaker
Kari Yli-Annala (FI) is a visual artist, moving image researcher and teacher. He has been engaged with making video works since the early 1990s. Yli-Annala’s works explore time, space and movement combining narrational techniques with non-narrative structural forms. Yli-Annala is the founder of a pedagogical project called Nomadic Academy of Experimental Arts and he is the Artistic Director in the annual AAVE – Alternative AudioVisual Event in Helsinki.
film program.
Creating Never Stops
A diverse program with filmic acts of material creation, appearing, disappearing and co-existing.
Curated by Kari Yli-Annala, in addition to his keynote lecture
Creation
Stan Brakhage, 1979 / color / silent / 1S / 16' 00
«(...) almost like the Earth itself–the green ice-covered rocks, the slicing feeling, the compressive feeling of the glaciers. The whole time I was watching I kept thinking that you were a master of the north, the arctic landscape–the red flowers in the dusky light, the deep blue light, the tall trees with running mists, and Jane looking... The ice, the water, the moss, the golden light. A visual symphony.» Hollis Melton
RESISTFILM
Pablo Marín, 2014, Super 8/16mm, b&n, mudo, 14 min
Super 8 film as Super film. In-camera investigations of (filmic) nature. Rustic homages to early avant-garde landmarks and wild landscapes of the 21st Century.
HAMMU
Sami van Ingen, 1991 00:09:50
Hammu is the name of the hamster I had as a child. It seemed to be my only friend and some-one to identify with. One day it disappeared and was never to be seen again. That marked the end of my childhood, of unreserved trust and commitment. This film is a visualisation of memories I had about this event, of obsession and loss.
SLEEPING
Pasi ”Sleeping” Myllymäki, 1979 00:01:42
The faceless rebel's declaration of war and "a rousing stab into the gunky eye of Finnish amateur cinema" (Myllymäki).
STATUE
Sini Pelkki, 2006 00:04:20
Work composed entirely of still photography (35mm), moving inside four single photographs. From detail to landscape opens up a figure in the middle of a wintery landscape. With the subtle play of shadow and light, the day turns into night turning the figure and its surrounding into a silhouette.
BOUQUETS ÉCOLOGIQUES 21–30
Rose Lowder, 2001-2005, 00:14:00
BOUQUETS 21-30 (2001-2005) is a part of the ecological BOUQUETS series, consisting of one-minute films composed in the camera by weaving the characteristics of different environments with the activities there at the time. The filming basically entails using the film strip as a canvas with the freedom to film frames on any part of the strip in any order, running the film through the camera as many times as needed. Thus each bouquet of flowers is also a unique bouquet of film frames.
Phytography
Karel Doing, 16mm 00:08:09 minutes colour 2020
Phytography dives into the rich and varied world of plant chemistry. This collection of organic objets trouvés demonstrates how nature generates multiple creative solutions, each one structured intricately. Through the application of a simple chemical process, the selected leaves, petals and stems have imprinted their own images on the film's emulsion. Shapes, colours and rhythms whirl across the screen drawing the viewer into a world beyond language and speech
Govadas
Elina Oikari, 2018 00:08:43
Govadas explores the contradiction and harmony between humans and nature through Sámi poetry. The cyclical perception of time among the only indigenous people living in the European Union is presented in the work as unfolding forms and layers based on the archive material from the 1940's and the super 8 mm film footage from 2010’s. Govadas creates a kinetic meditation on time, memory, landscape and the ruptures between them.
WHEN WE ARE NOTHING LEFT
Milja Viita, 2020 00:07:11
A minimalist film about time, infinity and life cycle, created in the spirit of William Blake. The film is shot and hand processed at the Film Farm in Ontario, Canada, during the summer 2018.
STADT IN FLAMMEN
Schmelzdahin,1984, 00:05:00
Film material is subjected to biochemical processes by burying it in the garden, storing it in a pond, or overheating it. The results of these natural processes of decay or aging are then copied back onto film and thus conserved in the state of their dissolution. In "Stadt in Flammen" the scenes melt due to overheating, producing an infernal image impression of disappearance. The images no longer show a figuratively represented scene, but rather its dissolution as a temporal process
