Biography
Minna Långström is a filmmaker and moving image artist from Helsinki, Finland. Her films, often dealing with questions of perception, representation and various mediated narratives, have been screened at several international film festivals such as Bergen IFF, Helsinki International Film Festival and Jihlava IDFF. One of her most recent films is the award winning one hour docummentary The Other Side of Mars (napafilms 2019). Her feature screenplay was selected for the 28th eQuinoxe International Screenwriters’ Workshop in Germany, fall 2023. Her moving image installation work have been exhibited internationally at museums such as Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Arts, Frankfurter Kunstverein and Charlottenborg Kunsthal in Copenhagen and is part of the Finnish National Gallery collection. In both her films and installations the intuitive, active experience of the viewer is a central aspect.
In addition to her artistic work, she founded a company that produced short and mid length films between 2002-2008 and held the position of assistant professor in moving image at the University of Arts in Helsinki 2008-2012.
News & Blog
Two weeks of story structure work with Claire Dobbin.
Two focussed and insightful weeks of story work on a new screenplay with the outstanding writer, dramaturg and script editor Claire Dobbin. The work took place as part of the Pro Artibus’ Residence-in-Residence program connected to my ongoing residence at Villa Snäcksund.
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Short film selected for Nordic Short Film Pitch @ Nordisk Panorama
Theory and Practice, a short fiction film in development, was selected for the Nordic Short Film Pitch for invited market guests at the Nordisk Panorama Film Festival in Malmö, 19-24.9.2024. Writer and Director: Minna Långström Producer: Mika Ritalahti, Silva Mysterium Photo Credits: Päivi Kettunen, F.S.C.
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3 Channel Film Installation Photons of Mars exhibited @ Photo North 24. September 2024 – 19. January 2025
The More-than-Planet exhibition by Photo North – Northern Photographic Center in Oulu, will take place in Photo North’s galleries Valve and Photo North galleries. The More-Than_Planet-exhibition, opening on the 24th of September and running until the 19th of January 2025, focuses on environmental literacy, offering perspectives and views from space, the forests and beneath the … Read More
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28th eQuinoxe International Screenwriters’ Workshop
A new feature screenplay project was selected by the 28th eQuinoxe International Screenwriters’ Workshop, taking place in Bayerisch Gmain in Bavaria, Germany, from October 13 to 20, 2023.
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Publications, exhibition and film screening, fall 2023
The Other Side of Mars was screened as part of a lecture series Landscape Revisited at the Helsinki University of Arts, organized by professor and artist Sigrid Sandström. A book with essays and photographs based on the lectures was later published, by the university press. It is available here. The Other Side … Read More
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Photosphere at the 35th Minimalen, January 2023
The short documentary Photosphere (2021) was selected for the 35th Minimalen Short Film Festival in Trondheim, 10-15th of January 2023.
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Exhibition and screenings, autumn 2022
The Photons of Mars three channel film installation is shown as part of the Waag Society‘s More-Than-Planet exhibition curated by Miha Turšič. Taking place in the world’s oldest university observatory in Leiden the exhibition opened on July 1st , and closes December 23rd 2022. The exhibition More Than Planet was reviewed by Annick Bureaud for … Read More
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Upcoming screenings and exhibitions during fall 2021 and spring 2022.
Upcoming events for the fall 2021 and spring 2022 include the film The Other Side of Mars beeing screened as part of the AISTIT /coming to our senses exhibition and PØLAR Film Festival at the Institut Finlandais in Paris, in May if the local Covid -19 situation allows. The Photons of Mars installation will be shown … Read More
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The Photons of Mars installation acquired for the Kiasma collection
The Photons of Mars three channel film installation has been acquired for the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art collection.
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Film review in the Yale Scientific Magazine and screening at Glasgow CCA and the AAAS 2020
“Science in the Spotlight: The Other Side of Mars” by Nithy Baskaran in the February 2020 issue of Yale Scientific Magazine. The Other Side of Mars will be screened at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting 2020, in Seattle, as part of a science program February 14th – 16th 2020. The Other … Read More
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We Make Money Not Art Review on the Supre:Organism – exhibition
A review on the Supre:Organism – exhibition has been published on the We Make Money Not Art – blog. The Photons of Mars installation was shown as part of the group exhibition Supre:Organism at Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen in the Netherlands, by the Waag Society. The curator of the exhibition was Miha Turšič. Photons of Mars, 2019. Waag & Kunstfort bij … Read More
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Award at Jihlava IDFF for The Other Side of Mars & screening @ Buffalo International Film Festival screening.
The Other Side of Mars screens at Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, where it won the “A Testimony on Knowledge” – award. The Other Side of Mars screens at Buffalo International Film Festival, and at The Imagine Science Film Festival in New York.
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Screening at Imagine Science in New York, the InScience International Film Festival and Jaipur International Film Festival selection
The Other Side of Mars has been selected for the Jaipur International Film Festival, taking place in January 2020. In November the Other Side of Mars screens at Imagine Science Film Festival in New York and the InScience International Film Festival, Nijmegen, The Netherlands in the main competition.
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Bergen International Film Festival – screening and Supre:Organism exhibition
The tree channel film installation Photons of Mars will be shown at the exhibition Supre:Organism at Kunstfort, The Netherlands, organised by The Waag Society and curated by Miha Turšič. The Other Side of Mars screens in the Golden Owl competition program at the “Bergen International Film Festival”
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Residency at SPACE Art + Technology in London
During three months, October – December 2019, I worked on a short documentary and a feature film script at a residency at the SPACE Studios in London. The residency provided external mentorship (from Film London) and it was awarded via an open call for the Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts alumni by the Academy of … Read More
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FEMeeting 2019, Continuum at Culture Lab and Allenheads Contemporary Arts residency
In April 2019 I will be participating in the Continuum launch event at Culture Lab, Newcastle, produced by Allenheads Contemporary Arts and curated by Rob La Frenais.” In May 2019 I will participate in the “FEMeeting 2019, Women in Art, Science and Technology“, held in Vila Nova de Milfontes and Lisbon, Portugal.
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The Other Side of Mars premiere at DocPoint 2019
The one hour documentary The Other Side of Mars, produced by Liisa Karpo at napafilms, has its premiere at the Doc Point Festival in Helsinki. The film was screened in three different theatres, including three Q&As.
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