Forêt Shell by Tuomo Kangasmaa selected for the 25th Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival - Curta Cinema 2015

The festival takes place in Cine Odeon – Centro Cultural Luís Severiano Ribeiro and at Cine Arte UFF in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between November 4 and 11, 2015.

The film participates in the Remote Landscape programme.

“This special programme focuses on films that target the relations between individual subjectivities and the landscapes they inhabit. The programme’s selection has been crafted by the selection committee to reflect a multiplicity of worldwide environments and cultures.”

On Kangasmaa’s video, a French-speaking narrator recollects an event where a film director, who was popular in Finland but defamed by critics, stopped off at a certain service station. Forêt Shell is a cinematic microhistory created by the artist, trying to tie the lost service station to a wider context. The various ingredients in the story interpret Northern Finland as a meeting place of different cultural epochs. The themes in Forêt Shell include locality, national popular culture, the origin of civilisation and essayistic film narrative.
AV-arkki distribution:
http://www.av-arkki.fi

More information:
http://curtacinema.com.br
www.facebook.com/FestivalCurtaCinema 

UPPSALA INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2015

The experimental short films Forêt Shell (2015) by Tuomo Kangasmaa 

have been selected for the Uppsala International Short Film Festival.

Forêt Shell presents an urban story and its setting in Northern Finland. There used to be a service station along a highway outside a small town, a popular stopping place for travellers and meeting place for the youth in the 1960s-80s. Local people called it “Forest Shell” (Forêt Shell in French). The examination of the urban story and personal memories from the service station of the past as well as historical facts blend into a narrative and myth on the video.

Fôret Shell will also be screened at the 28th Festival Les Instants Vidéo, organised in Marseille, France between November 6 and 29, 2015.

Forêt Shell is distributed by AV-arkki. AV-arkki is the Distribution Centre for Finnish Media Art. AV-arkki distributes and promotes Finnish media art to festivals, events, museums and galleries worldwide.

61. International Short Film Festival Oberhausen

kuva:Tuomo Kangasmaa/Forêt Shell/2015

AV-arkki in the Distributor Program

"A number of international distributors and institutions specialising in art film and avant-garde film present selections from their latest catalogues here. Also regularly on view are works from the Videoart at Midnight Edition, which releases up to ten works per year. The result is a showcase of current international avant-garde and video art production, featuring established filmmakers and artists as well as new discoveries."

http://www.kurzfilmtage.de/en/

LOW -video installation

Neljästä tuhannesta valokuvasta koottu video LOW
installoituna Hiukkavaara Piknik tapahtumaan 28.6.2014.
Hiukkavaara Piknikin järjestää Oulussa vuosittain
Kulttuurikasarmi ry.

LOW video installed in Hiukkavaara Piknik event in Oulu 28.6.2014.
The video is composed of 4000 photos and projected on
three-dimensional surface in large storage room.

Hildegard Projekt: Haute Sculpture on Radio Študent

On a show on Radio Študent, entitled Fine umetnosti, journalist Miha Turk gave his review about the exhibition Hildegard Projekt: Haute Sculpture. He said that the exhibition brings an interesting reflexion about the creative process, where the exhibition itself is just a cherry on top of the whole process.

On the website of Radio Študent we can read the following words: »In one room, there is just a projection of a picture of eleven empty chairs and in the corner of the last room artworks are crammed as if they were stored in a depot. It is not clear if the result was the intention of the artists from the beginning or the conceptual nature of the exhibition is the outcome of some kind of a complication, which can happen when working in a group. But this is not actually important. Works, packed in the last room, are very meaningful. On one hand the physical material gives the alibi to the conceptually strong statement in other, almost empty, spaces. The artworks itself are the most abstract part of the exhibition. By itself they are just requisites, which indirectly give meaning and value to the biographies of the artists, who struggle from project to project. Projects, which have a practical value just because they enable the following projects.« 
The whole review is available on the website of Radio Študent (in Slovenian language).

Oksasenkatu 11 Entry_Exit

besides beauty

Flat 1

Loose Candy

LOOSE CANDY!! AV-arkin erikoisohjelma Kiasman musaperjantaissa 4.5. ------> AV-Arkki

INTERNATIONAL TELETEXT ART FESTIVAL ITAF

INTERNATIONAL TELETEXT ART FESTIVAL ITAF

LABIRYNT 2011

Festiwal Nowej Sztuki – lAbiRynT: 21-23.10 2011

Terveiset Strömsöstä

W.A.N.K TV

Fundamentals of Web Design

"Users visiting a new site spend an average of 30 seconds on the homepage and less than two minutes on the entire site before deciding to abandon it. They spend a bit more time if they decide to stay on a site, but still only four minutes on average." If they have to spend 15 of their 30 seconds figuring out which link to click on your home page, you've probably lost them. He says: "Thus, websites should have almost no features: focus on the words."

- Nielsen Norman research -

Winter wonderland

"Koko Suomen poronhoitoalue on rajattu 57:ään paliskuntaan, mutta 58. on pukin ikioma, Korvatunturin paliskunta. Korvatunturi ilman poroja ei olisi oikea Korvatunturi.Tontut oppivat jo lapsena tulemaan mainiosti toimeen näiden sarvipäiden kanssa."

FullHD

"Ihmisen näkö on noin 30 CPD:tä.(CPD = cycles per degree) Hevosten 18, koirien 12 ja kissojen vain 6. Kissat näkevät pimeässä hyvin mutta eivät vastaavasti pysty näkemään kovin tarkasti.
Näin ollen 46-tuumaisen FullHD:n katseluetäisyys on maksimissaan 1,8 m."

Let's stunt

"Stunt performances are highly choreographed and may be rigorously rehearsed for hours, days and sometimes weeks before a performance. Seasoned professionals will commonly treat a performance as if they have never done it before, since the risks in stunt work are high, every move and position must be correct to reduce risk of injury from accidents."