Maarit Suomi-Väänänen (MA) works as media artist and director.
Her work also encompasses photography and installations.
Praised as fascinating, absurd and open to a multiple interpretations, Suomi-Väänänen's awarded works
have toured in 35 countries, appearing in exhibitions, at festivals and on television.
Maarit won the Best Short Film Award in the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montreal 2009.
2013-2014 upcoming LadyFest Copenhagen Denmark, Forum Box Media Box Helsinki Finland, Chateau de Saint Auvent France,
Galerie Espace Cercle Carré Montreal Canada, Gallery Space Station 65 London and ATA Artists Television Access San Francisco USA.
Distributors: Vtape Toronto, AV-arkki Helsinki, Finnish Film Foundation, Vidéothéque Nomade Bruxelles.
In a Musty, Misty Thicket
Pik Mama and Missy are spending a boondocks day in a mysterious, musty thicket. (12min, installation 2011, film 2012)
Missy (Likka): Nina Renvall. Pik Mama: Appe Vanajas. Photo: Jarkko Liikanen.
Direction, script, edit, scenography, production: Maarit Suomi-Väänänen.
- Group exhibition at Mänttä Art Festival, Finland 12.6.-31.8.2011. Installation version. Curator: Otso Kantokorpi.
- Installation screening at Seanahk Art Festival, Haapsalu, Estonia 29.7.2011. Curator: Jaan Toomik and Johannes Deimling.
- All films screening at Grand Detour, Portland, USA, 18.10.2011, Recess Gallery
- Pori Festivals 18.12.2011. Curator: Anni Venäläinen
- Festival premier, Film Festival Rotterdam, Dinamo screening 27.1.2012
- Arctic Heat, competition, Jyväskylä Finland 2.2012
- Worldwide Short Film Festival Toronto Canada, Night Shift Sunday June 10, 1:15.
- Photographic Center Peri, Sin exhibition, Turku Finland 15.6.-19.8.2012
COMING / ONGOING
- Gallery Space Station 65 London UK, April-May 2014. Curators: Arto Korhonen, Minna Haukka
- Chateau de Saint Auvent France. 27.7.-25.8.2013. Curator: Harri Larjosto
- Montreal Underground Film Festival Canada 25.5.2013
- LadyFest Copenhagen Denmark 11.4.2012
- John Barker´s Short, Barker Theatre, Turku, Finland, April 2013
- KORT Art Film Festival, Sandnes, Norway 30.11.2012 + film debate with critic Kalle Löchen
- Helsinki Short Film Festival 13.-18.11.2012
- Aarhus Film Festival 6.-11.11.2012 + Aaros, Aarhus Art Museum
- Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada, Open Studios 19.10.2012. The Special Effects Trilogy
- Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria BC, Canada 12.-20.10.2012
- KinoKino Art and Film Center, Sandnes Norway, all-films-screening 1.9.2012
- Nordisk Panorama, Oulu Finland, competition 21.-26.9.2012
- Finland Film Festival, The New Library Almere, Netherlands prior to Kaurismäki`s Le Havre 16.10.2012
+ Up And About Again, prior to Steam of Life 17.10.2012
- TV-broadcast on Yle Teema, Uusi Kino, Finnish Broadcasting Company. Producer: Sari Volanen.
Up And About Again
UP AND ABOUT AGAIN (2009, 10min) is moved by motion, laid back in the outback.
Director, script, edit, production: Maarit Suomi-Väänänen.
Car specialist: Risto Hämäri. Photo: Jarkko Liikanen.
Up And About Again has shown on 100 venues in 27 countries.
The best short film in the international selection, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montréal, Canada 2009
Upcoming / latest
- Galerie Espace Cercle Carré, Montreal, 12.9. 2013
- Vortex Gallery, Dijon, France 13.-28.10.2012
- Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada, Open Studios 19.10.2012. The Special Effects Trilogy
- Finland Film Festival, The New Library Almere, Netherlands prior to Steam of Life 17.10.2012
- Nordic Short Film Panorama, 4 Cities Quebec Kanada: Chicoutimi, Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec-city, Montréal
by Regard Saguenay Film Festival 14.-23.3.2012
- Scandinavian House New York, AV-arkki Screening 12.3.2012
- Solo exhibition, WARC Gallery, Toronto, Canada 29.10.-3.12.2011. Critic:
THE GLOBE AND MAIL, CANADA: R. M. Vaughan: A road trip into our psyches
- Finnish Broadcasting Company, Re-Broadcast Uusi Kino, Yle Teema 8.12.2011 and 11.12.2011
- Turku 365, European Capital of Culture, Finland. 11.2011
- Avantgarde films in Drive-In Theatre, Fullframe, Wienna, Austria 21.9.2011
- Global Container, Culture Factory Polymer, Tallinn Estonia 26.8.2011. Curator: Sandra Jõgeva
- Reikäreuna Film Festival, Orivesi Finland 9.2011
- Videoarte Invisible 9, Fabrica Gambettola, Italy 18.7.-7.8.2011. By B&Bart Museo de Arte Contemporanea Italia Colombia.
- TV broadcasting YLE Teema, Kinomania, 14th of November, 2010.
- “Another one of MUFF's favourite's, Jalkeilla Taas (Up and About Again) by Maarit Suomi-Väänänen from Finland...”
MUFF Montreal Underground film Festival 12.-14.5.2011
- Lorenzo Jovanotti`s Tou r of the Stadium Concerts in Italy, un-conventional screening, spring-summer-autumn 2011
MINISPECTACLES (2010, 2013) is series of one-minute works, cinematic haikus.
The First Minispectacle parts are Touché, Douche and Souche.
Minispectacles 4xAlong follows the flow of water, sewage, the Suez Canal and of desire.
Minispectacles 2xAgainst goes against with the French Resistance and Occupy Oakland.
To be continued.
Featuring: bottle, explosion, ducks, water, sewage, Suez Canal, desire, French Resistance,
and Occupy Oakland with Boots Riley.
Production countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina, France, Finland, Egypt, USA
Support: Avek, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Arts Promotion Centre in Finland
- Experimental Film Festival, Portland, USA, May 2013
- Forum Box, Media Box, Helsinki, Finland 26.4.- 19.5.2013. Openings 25.4. 17-19 o´clock. Warmly welcome! Curator: Nina Toppila
- Chateau de Saint Auvent France. 27.7. Screening. Curator: Harri Larjosto
- Kone Foundation, Saari Manor, Mynämäki, Finland 2012
- Kinokino Center for Art And Film, KORT Festival, Sandnes, Norway
- Helsinki Short Film Festival, Finland 11.11.2011
SPECIAL MENTION: "The mini film serie is an anarchistic diamond, that needs no refining." Jury: Maris Duncker, Anssi Kasitonni.
- Instant Cinema, Experimental Documentaries Channel,curator: Pablo Carrera
http://preview.instantcinema.org/expdocs/1093
- Traverse Vidéo, Toulouse, France 3.2012
- North End Studios, Detroit Design Festival, Detroit USA 25.9.2011, curator: Katherine Craig
- Instants Vidèo Numèriques et poètiques, Marseille, France 9.11.2011
- Bay Street Film Festival, Thunder Bay, Canada 29.9.-2.10.2011
- Reikäreuna Film Festival, Orivesi Finland 9.2011
- Culture Tram 7A, Helsinki Finland 5.4.-28.4.2011, curator: Saara Hacklin, AV-arkki
- Clermond-Ferrand Short Film Festival, Nordic Film Foundations at Market, France 3.2011
- IDFA, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, ParaDocs -program, Netherlands 2010
- 5e Biennale d´art contemporain de Bourges, Minicube at the Galerie Haidouc, France 18.-21.11.2010 (triptych)
- ATA Artists Television Access, Window Gallery Installation, San Francisco, U SA 1.10.-21.10.2010
- 14th Ismailia International Festival for Documentary & Short Films, competition, Egypt 9.2010
- Gallery 3h+k, Pori, Finland. Curator: Anni Venäläinen
- The international One Minute Film & Video Festival Aarau, competition, Switzerland 8.2010
- Kölner Filmhaus, Error compilation, Germany 10.2010
SALTY SNOW (8min, 2007) on YLE Finnish Broadcasting Company 13.7.2011, rebroadcast.
INSTANT CINEMA has gone alive!
See A BIT SCARY REALLY... (2005) at EYE Film Institute Netherlands Collection, curator: Anna Abrahams:
http://preview.instantcinema.org/eye/379/A-bit-scary-really
See more Maarit`s works:
http://preview.instantcinema.org/msuomi
FROM BANGLADESH BY HAND (b&w photos 1990)
- World Shop Juuttiputiikki Oulu, Finland 15.5.-15.6.2011
The first exhibition of Suomi-Väänänen from 20 years ago is exhibited concerning the Int. Fair Trade Day
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