Rex Fest brings media art from the black box to the silver screen

Each festival evening will be built around a unifying theme. The evenings will start with a roughly hour-long screening of several short films and end with a live cinema performance on the Bio Rex stage. The works in the Power and Resistance screening will provide commentary on the current state of the world and its links to history. Dreams and Time will take the viewer into a dreamlike, even magical world, where our concept of time is challenged. Colours and Borders will bring to the screen various colours and textures and examine the recognition of borders and our attachment to them. The Live format will include performances by Martta Tuomaala, Sami van Ingen and Anton Nikkilä. The festival programme will culminate in media artist Timo Wright’s cine-concert of new short films, where a live orchestra will perform the film music. The Israeli artist Omer Fast’s film 5000 Feet is the Best (2011) will also be shown that evening.

Tickets to all screenings can be purchased in advance on the Amos Rex webpage and one hour before the show at the ticket counter. Ticket sales online and at the ticket office ends one hour and fifteen minutes, respectively, prior to showtime.

Please note that some of the films and performances are in Finnish.

The Bio Rex cinema has for 15 years served as the venue for many film festivals. This year regular screening of films has returned to this unique, carefully restored facility. The new festival, Rex Fest, is well suited to the historic Bio Rex and its foyers and supports Amos Rex’s concept of the cross-disciplinary nature of art and of the rewarding juxtaposition of different forms of expression.

SCREENINGS:

5 November, 7 pm POWER & RESISTANCE

Sasha Huber & Petri Saarikko, Remedies – Rongoã, 2016, 6:05 min

Laura Horelli, Namibia Today, 2018, 22:22 min

Risto-Pekka Blom, Interceptor, 2018, 4:32 min

Marja Helander, Dolastallat –To Have a Campfire, 2016, 5:48 min

Johanna Lecklin, Not Just a Matter of Passion, 2018, 12:00 min

Jenni Luhta, Help Me, 2018, 5:00 min

Azar Saiyar, Hey You, 2017, 7:07 min

Live cinema performance: Martta Tuomaala, FinnCycling-Soumi-Perkele! Volume 2, 2017, 60:00 min

12 November, 7 pm DREAMS & TIME

Arja Kärkkäinen, Tag, 2018, 9:00 min

Kalle Nio, Trick Brain, 2018, 11:00 min

Sami Sänpäkkilä & Anna-Mari Nousiainen, The Eternal Sleep of the Man, 2018, 9:08 min

Seppo Renvall, Napoli Film, 2017, 19:48 min

Elina Oikari, Govadas, 2018, 8:43 min

Sami van Ingen, Flame, 2018, 15:00 min

Live cinema performance: Sami van Ingen, Conceptión, 2016, 40:00 min

19 November, 7 pm COLOURS & BORDERS

Juha van Ingen, Hello Everybody, 2017, 8:14 min

Reija Meriläinen, Crush, 2017, 4:44 min

Petteri Cederberg, With Colour, With Sound, 2016, 5:28 min

Leena Lehti, threshold.boundary., 2018, 8:33 min

Kati Roover, Eclipse, 2018, 2:51 min

Saara Ekström, Body All Eyes, 2018, 14:39 min

Milja Viita, Animal Bridge U-3033, 2018, 12:00 min

Jukka Silokunnas, Vanishing Point, 2017, 1:01 min

Live cinema performance: Anton Nikkilä, Literal Translations, 2018, 32:40 min

26 November, 7 pm

Film screening: Omer Fast, 5000 Feet is the Best, 2011, 30:00 min

Timo Wright: Cine-concert featuring the Ex Nihilo Ensemble

Ex Nihilo, 2018, 8:20 min

Embrace, 2017, 4:34 min

Solace, 2017, 13:22 min

Null Statue, 2016, 8:00 min

A Feast with King Midas, 2014, 3:45 min

Event, 2012, 3:47 min

Tickets: amosrex.fi/rexfest