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  • Up And About Again Up And About Again has been shown almost on 100 venues in 21 countries.
    Up And About Again is categorized as an installation, as well as a experimental fiction, documentary and short film.
    Up And About Again on Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE TEEMA, Kinomania 14th of November 2010.
    The work has been shown in museums, galleries, happenings and notable film festivals in Amsterdam, Toronto and Gothenburg.
    http://www.av-arkki.fi/web/index.php?id=784

    The audience award of Cultuur&Cinema KYLLÄ! was woted for Maarit Suomi-Väänänen`s works
    Swan Song, a bit scary really..., Salty Snow and Up And About Again
    and for Jalmari Helander´s two short films.
    KYLLÄ! Finnish Film Night organised by Filmhuis Den Hague and
    Kosmopolis Den Haag on 23rd of March 2010.
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    Up And About Again (Jalkeilla Taas) received Best short film in the International Selection -award at
    Festival du Nouveau Cinéma in Montreal, Canada. October 2009.
    Festival du Nouveau Cinéma is one of the festivals in Canada, and it was organized 38th time.
    http://www.nouveaucinema.ca/2009/en/nouvelles/

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    Selection:
    Auto-Art-Screening Kamppi Underground Helsinki 15.4.2011-
    Video Formes, Clermont-Ferrand France 3.2011
    Oldenburg Short Film Days, Germany 11.2010
    Cairo Video Art & Experimental Film Festival, Egypt 9.2010 |
    medimed Euro-Mediterranean Barcelona
    Bay Street Film Festival, Thunder Bay, Canada 9.2010
    L'Etrange Festivaalin competition, Paris 3.-12.9.2010
    AV-arkki on Tour: Washington Film Institute, Embassy of Finland 24.6.2010
    Directors Lounge Berlin: PAm video art festival Sennigallia, Italy

    Virserums Konsthall, Sweden, 9.5.-5.12.2010
    "a bit scary really..." and Up And About Again
    Other participants among many others Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Maria Duncker and Ari Saarto from Finland and
    Bill Viola from United States. Virserums Konsthall is one of the ten largest art spaces in Sweden.
    http://www.artland.se/utstallningar/tales-from-the-forest-350490

    Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Instant Cinema project 2010
    Docu-comedy “a bit scary really... which is a video piece in which a couple is attempting to fell a tree.
    Talking together is worth the effort!

    Maarit Suomi-Väänänen is participating EMARE (European Media Artists in Residence Exchange)
    residency in France, Bourges, Oct-Nov 2010

    Doc Lounge – doc club shows Up And About Again 19.5.2010 prior to the long documentary.
    Dubrovnik Lounge in Helsinki, Finland.
    http://doclounge.se/helsinki/

    Salty Snow (2007, 8min) Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE TV1, 28.5.2010, 13:35.

    Up And About Again at LOOP - the Platform for Video Art, Barcelona 12.-22.5.2010.
    http://www.loop-barcelona.com/index.php/festival/presentations_program/denmark

    Rooftop Films Summer Series in New York, Brooklyn will screen Up And About Again at 5.6.2010.
    Fears and Fantasies. "A fun, frantic program of films about losing your grip on reality . . . and loving it."
    http://www.rooftopfilms.com/2010/schedule/11-fears-and-fantasies

    Liigalaksma Film Festival 16,-17.7.2010 Saaremaa, Estonia
    Swan Song, A Bit Scary Really..., Salty snow, Up And About Again, and just completed
    one minute video Touché.

    Up And About Again at Kulturhuset Stockholm 18.4.2010
    among other new european short films.
    REX Experimental Film Festival, Sweden
    http://www.kulturhuset.se/default.asp?id=3191&refid=32630&ptid=

    Up And About Again is touring on spring 2010 in Stockholm, Norrköping, Eskilstuna, Västerås, Uumaja and Borås (Sweden).
    Prior to Aleksi Mäkelä´s feature Hellsinki.
    Organized by Finlandsinstitutet, Stockholm

    TV
    Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE will broadcast Up And About Again

    Soloexhibition WARC gallery, Toronto Canada 2011

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    VISUAL ART (selection)
    LIIKkuvat Video Art art at Kauppi Hospital, Tampere Finland 4.2011
    AV-arkki on Tour: Exhibition Centre TR1 Festart01 installation exhibition 13.2.-14.3.2010
    +Screening at thevTampere Film Festival Finland
    +Washington Film Institute, Embassy of Finland 24.6.2010
    Galleria Forssan Tori Finland 9-27.2.2010
    Solo exhibition: Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton, Canada 30.10.-11.12.2009
    Screening at Reykjavik Art Museum, Visual Art Magazine Rafskinna and Nordisk Panorama 9.2009
    Pori Art Museum, Night of the Museum 5.2009
    Publication of DVD, FRAME project room 5.2009
    Int Video Festival Videomedeja, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina Serbia 12.2009
    Directors Lounge Media Art Festival in Berlin Germany 11-21.2.2010
    +PAm video art festival Sennigallia, Italy
    Nomadic Video Library Brussels Belgium, http://www.6870.be
    Media Art Festival Bandits-Mages, Bourges, France 4.-10.5.2009
    Loop Video Art Festival Barcelona 12-22.5.2010
    MoA exhibition Helsinki Finland 12-24.5.2009
    Art Fair Suomi Helsinki 26.9.-4.10.2009
    Trailer 2008: Helsinki Art Fair 2008 / Galleri Sinne Videonight

    FESTIVALS (selection)
    L'Etrange Festival, competition, Paris 3.-12.9.2010
    Rooftop Films Summer Series, Fears and Fantasies, New York 5.6.2010
    KYLLÄ! Finnish Film Night, Filmhuis Den Haag, Hollanti 23.3.2010 (all works)
    Liigalaksma Film Festival, Saaremaa Estonia 17.7. (all works)
    Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montreal Canada 7-18.2009
    Best short film in the International Selection-award
    Göteborg International Film Festival, Sweden 29.1-8.2.2009, Best of Nordic Short Films screening
    IDFA Documentary Film Festival - Paradocs programme Amsterdam The Netherlands 11.2009
    Impakt in Brazil: Belo Horizonte - Venue Arte.mov Festival + Salvador + Porto Alegre + Belem 11.2009
    Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, Germany 10.-15.11.2009
    Curtocircuito 09 - competition, Santiago de Compostela, Spain 10.-17.10.2009
    Festival de Internacional Filmets Badalona - competition, Barcelona Spain 6.-14.11.2009
    ATA Film&Video Festival, San Francisco 22.-23.10.2009
    ATA screenings: La Enana Marron Madrid 4.-7.3.2010
    Millennium Film New York 20.2.2010
    Arctic & Fabulous Film Festival – competition, Jyväskylä Finland 19.-22.10.2009
    Uppsala International Short Film Festival - competition Sweden, 19.-25.10.2009
    Milan Film Festival - competition Italy 11.-20.9.2009 + Re Distribution Project in Italy
    Festival Silhouette, Paris France 9.2009
    Festival international du film d’Amiens, France 11.2009
    Off-Courts Festival - competition, Trouville France, 9.2009
    25 FPS int. experimental film and video festival, competition, Zagreb Croatia 22.-27.9.2009
    Sarajevo Film Festival-New Currents Shorts Competition Program, Bosnia and Herzegovina 12-20.8.
    CAMBOfest, Cambodia 12.2009
    Thai Short Film and Video, Competition, Bangkok 21.-23.8.2009
    Worldwide Short Film Festival – Official Selection, Toronto Canada 16.-21.6.2009
    Cannes Film Festival, France, Scandinavian Short Films Screening, Short Film Corner 5.2009
    Curtas Vila do Conde Int Film Festival, Portugal 4.-12.7.2009, European Panorama
    Just For Laughs Festival – Official Competition, Montreal Canada 23.-25.7.2009
    Nordisk Film Festival 2009, Fredikshavn, Denmark
    Rauma Blue Sea Film Festival, Finland 8.2009

    SCREENINGS, HAPPENINGS
    Doc Lounge documentary club, Dubrovnik, Helsinki 19.5.2010
    FinlandsInstitutet, Stockholm 14.2.10. + Norrköping, Eskilstuna, Västerås, Uumaja and Borås,
    Prior to Aleksi Mäkelä´s Rööperi.
    Media Centre Lume 5.2009
    Verdens Kultur Centret Copenhagen Denmark 5.2009
    TamperePunkevenings Vastavirta club and Hertta Cultural Cafe Finland
    Kosmoramaclub Turku
    Turku Airport Finland (Medusaworks Ltd trailer)

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    Solo exhibition: Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton Canada 1.11.-11.12.2009.
    Opening October 30, 8pm. Welcome!
    http://www.galeriesansnom.org/

    Up And About Again is selected into Official Selection of Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto 16.-21.2009. The biggest short film festival in North America received over 3900 submissions. http://www.worldwideshortfilmfest.com/

    Cannes International Film Festival, France, Scandinavian Short Films Screening at the Short Film Corner 13.-22.5.2009 http://www.shortfilmcorner.com/

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  • Aquarelle Bienniale Baltic Bridges at Kaunas Picture Art Gallery, Lithuania 11.7.-24.8.2008- Swan Song is on main exhibition of the Biennial. Maarit Suomi-Väänänen
    was awarded the diploma by the Biennial. The international jury is
    consisting of artist and art critics. More than 100 artists of various
    creative spheres from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, Sweden,
    Denmark, Germany, Poland, Russia, Belarus and Iceland participate in the
    Biennial.
  • WWF – New Delhi, India, Film and Documentary Library- Salty Snow
    - A Bit Scary Really...
    - Swan Song

a bit scary really...

Salty Snow and a bit scary really...
Virka Gallery, Helsinki City Hall, Finland 20.5.-30.8.2009
Exhibition Public Stash http://www.virka.fi/

at Bay Street Film Festival, Thunder Bay, Canada, September 11-14, 2008.
www.baystreetfilmfestival.ca

Salty Snow and Swan Song

Salty Snow will be shown at Ignition New Media and Film Festival, venue the Majestic Theatre, Australia 2009
Swan Song at Le 4e`me Festival de films underground de Montreal, Canada 14.-16.5.2009 / Cake, Docs and Blue Angels programme. http://muff514.com
Salty Snow and Swan Song, Night at the Indies, Toronto, Canada. March 31st 2009.
Nacht der Kultur screening at Rostock, Germany 18.10.2008.
Salty Snow and Middletons, Solo Exhibition at Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, Finland Studio 14.6.-7.9.2008

Middletons

Middletons are permanently installed to Medusa, Digital Design Production House. You find Middletons also at Medusa´s website: www.medusa.fi
MoA FEstival, Helsinki, Finland 12.-24.5.2009