ABOVE & UNDER – Media art and experimental film screening

Above & Under invites the viewers to consider human coexistence with other animals and living beings. The title echoes the age-old division between the earth and the heavens, but also evokes the hierarchies humans have established in nature. The works in the programme look at how different living beings collaborate, co-create and come to understandings, for example through the process of ecological filmmaking or cultural correspondence. The films also critically examine how humans have historically undervalued non-human intelligence, have aimed to pathologize and control human diversity, and interfered in the animal world by selective breeding of various species for aesthetic purposes.

Please find the full program with film descriptions and artist biographies on AV-arkki’s website.

The duration of the screening is approximately 1h 20 min, and is followed by a Q&A with the artists Müge Yıldız, Leena Lehti, Marjo Levlin and Marloes van Son.

AV-arkki, the Centre for Finnish Media Art, has been a pioneering distributor since 1989. The activities of AV-arkki have contributed to the success that Finnish media art enjoys today.

Free admission, tickets can be reserved through Cinema Orion’s online store.