Espoo Ciné Film Festival presents a two-day international seminar on film and visual art as part of the festival’s new Cinéstesia programme. Dedicated to the reciprocal relationship between cinema and moving-image-based contemporary art, Cinéstesia also marks the beginning of a collaboration between Espoo Ciné and the Saastamoinen Foundation.

The seminar opens at EMMA on Tuesday 25 August and continues on Wednesday 26 August at Cinema Orion.

Programme / Day 1 / EMMA:

12:15 – 12:30
Welcome words

12:30 – 13:45
Artist Talk Nour Ouayda
Moderator: Azar Saiyar – Artist, Filmmaker

13:45 – 14:45
Panel discussion: Un/framing the Screen In-between Cinema and Visual Arts

Speakers:
Krist Gruijthuijsen – Director and CEO of EMMA
Itha O’Neill – Head of Curation of Amos Rex
Saara Hacklin – Chief Curator, Collections of Kiasma
Paul O’Neill – Artistic Director of Publics

Moderator:
Sini Mononen – Academy of Finland Research Fellow, University of Helsinki, and Art Journalist.

14:45 – 15:15
Coffee break

15:15 – 16:30
Artist Talk: Ben Rivers
Moderator: Arturo Delgado – Filmmaker, Associate Professor of Aalto University

The Cinéstesia 2026 screening programme has been curated by writer, curator and critic Erika Balsom (King’s College London). For EMMA visitors, we especially recommend the joint screenings of Isaac Julien’s early films. Julien’s Territories (1984) and Looking for Langston (1989) will be screened at Kino Regina on Friday 28 August. A second screening of the films will be held later in the autumn at Kino Tapiola. Julien’s later work will also be featured in the exhibition Alien in Me opening at EMMA in October.

Participation in the seminar costs 8 € per day. Registration takes place through the Espoo Ciné website. Participation in the seminar does not require the purchase of a museum admission ticket.