Story: Niilo Gustafsson
Melissa, a 16-years-old school girl struggles in the edge of adulthood in the emotive short film Kissed with a Fist.

She lacks a male role model in her life and tries to find one in bad relationships. Rather than that she finds herself in bad company making bad choices. She has to make decisions which will determine her future. During the process she perceives what really is important and worth living for.

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Skin is a light prison
28.3.-4.4.2011

Screening
9 video works

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From Pixel by Jaana Ristola

The second 3 Inch Canvas Exhibition for Art on Mobiles is being held March 22nd to 27th at the Jyväskylä Art Museum as part of the Live Herring ’11 event. The 3 Inch Canvas is introducing works by eight art students from TAMK. The artists are Heidi Hemmilä, Alpo Nummelin, Laura Laukkanen, Tiina Lehikoinen, Jaana Ristola, Laura Rytkönen, Heta Tepponen and Jenni Yppärilä.

Links:
http://www.the3inchcanvas.org/
http://www.liveherring11.net/nayttelyt/jyvaskylan-taidemuseo/
http://www.areena.yle.fi/video/1300726634764

A number of TAMK's artists have joined this project

Screening Helsinki is an exhibition project that brings media art among people with new means. The first
exhibition consists of the photographs of 15 artists. The digital format images are projected as a traditional slide show. The projection is arranged with the assist of an independent screening vehicle. This car is supplied with an energy source and a video projector so that any wall anywhere that you can park the car is a possible exhibition space. Screening Helsinki is supported by Moving Gallery.
Story: Jyrki Kirjalainen

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Miro Laiho is doing his written thesis about the subject "Innovative methods in short film marketing and funding."
It is related to the crowd funding campaign started about a month ago in the pre-production of the thesis film “8”. Indie Gogo is a website, where you can easily contribute money to different projects via bank / credit card or Paypal account (no registration needed.)

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Photo: Anssi Rautio

“Change of State” (Muutos meitä johtaa), getting it’s premiere in April, is set in the 70’s Finland, when the colour television is just having it’s breakthrough. The protagonist is lottery’s official draw supervisor, Mister Honkonen, who is in danger of dismissal; he is not suitable for the broadcast’s new look. Honkonen wants to keep his job, but at what cost?

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Story: Ulpu-Maria Lehtinen
It’s quite common that a screenwriting student needs to be a little imaginative to find a trainee’s job from the own field of study. This spring the situation was better than usually, because Claes Olsson’s drama documentary project Näsilinna 1918 was looking for screenwriting assistants from Tampere University of Applied Sciences.

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Photo: Ville Salminen

We (Degree Programme in Media, Tampere University of Applied Sciences) need a new full time Senior Lecturer in Visual Design as of August 1st 2011.

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European Short Pitch 2011 competition gathered again about twenty young screenwriters to a workshop in France, where they had a change to develop their own scripts with professionals and create contacts to filmmakers in other European countries.
Story: Ulpu-Maria Lehtinen

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Zou Xueping, Zhang Mengqi and Wu Wenguang. Photo: Sohvi Sirkesalo

Story: GuanJun Liu
The world is changing with really remarkable speed. As Goldman Sachs projected China will have a larger economy than United States in 2027 which was drawn up before the Western financial crisis. Not only China’s economy draws plenty of the West attention, but also China state’s actions, political issues, culture and its dramatic growing international status. However, to some of, or a large scale of people in the west, China is, still, more likely a mystery, as well as massive misunderstanding of this country.

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Graduating artists from TAMK's Degree Programme in Fine Art will present their final thesis works at Mältinranta Artcenter and TR1 Kunsthalle. There will be drawings, paintings, photographs and an exceptionally large amount of sculptures and video installations displayed.

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CalQuest background image

Story: Emma Kiiski
A competition called Demola Mobile Challenge was held from last years summer until this years January, in co-operation between Demola and Forum Nokia. Students could develop their own creative applications, made with Qt/QML for Nokia’s smart phones. QML was introduced to us in our Programming course last year and our teacher Tony Torp told us about the competition in Demola, in which we could participate with our course task. The three of us, Anna Narinen, Douglas Symon and Emma Kiiski, wanted to create another idea only for this purpose - obviously it was worth of it! We learned a great deal about creating an application from scratch and working in team.

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They only echo
Ikuinen Gallery March 17-30 2011
Video Installation by Satu Leskinen
Open 12:00 am to 4:00 pm
Finlaysoninkuja 3 Tampere

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Story: Johanna Peltola
Cool and challenging projects, that’s what the students get to do here in TAMK. The spring semester of International Media Programme is reserved for an interactive media –project, worth 30 study credits, which may be used for one big project or several smaller ones. Every student is however expected to carry out a project connected to industrial life.

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Eeva-Kaisa and the puzzle

One big project normally involves several smaller ones. At least that is very much the case with Tähtipäivät, the project we (me and my classmate Neil) have been working on for the past few months. The event will take place in about ten days, so it’s finally time to put the theories in practice. This week we’ve been occupied with printing and we’ve totally fallen in love with the big printer downstairs.

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Animation director Paul Bush gives a talk at TTVO on Friday

TAMK Art and Media (TTVO) makes now its 20th appearance at Tampere International Film Festival. Students, above all film and television students, are taking care of different jobs at the festival, and a high number of study points are made in the seminars and workshops.

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Last autumn TAMK photo contest was looking for the best picture of TAMK feeling. Now we are looking for pictures of your morning.

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Guest post written by Katheryn Rivas

Of course, it is nothing short of a cliche to decry the ubiquity of the Hollywood commercial behemoth that maintains one of the strongest strangleholds on American cultural imperialism in the U.S. and abroad. But for all the criticism of Hollywood's cultural hegemony, world cinema and artfully-made independent films are experiencing nothing short of a blossoming renaissance in the 21st century. The problem, as critic A.O Scott noted in a New York Times opinion editorial earlier this year, is that all these wonderful advancements in film are muddling along in relative obscurity.

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From 'Strange Walls'

We are now making our 20th appearance at Tampere Film Festival! This post will introduce last six of the twelve short films of the  Kino TAMK screening at Tullikamari Thursday March 10th.

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From 'The Lesson'. Photo: Hannu Koivuranta

We are now making our 20th appearance at Tampere Film Festival! This post will introduce first six of the twelve short films of the  Kino TAMK screening at Tullikamari Thursday March 10th.

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What is MindTrek?
This fall Tampere will gather together thinkers and doers, old and new friends from the digital industry. MindTrek is an annual three-day digital media and business conference gathering a unique blend of industry professionals and the newest players on the scene.

This year, the 15th edition of the conference takes place in Hotel Rosendahl, September 28-30. With a global crowd of 800 participants, MindTrek is an excellent place for networking and getting updated on the latest news and topics of the field, and has traditionally been an important event for the local and international students.

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Text and photos: Eevi Korhonen

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The Legendary TAMK Party at Tampere Film Festival is here again and more horrifying than ever. Lose your mind and release your inner zombie on the dance floor of Klubi on Thu, Mar 10 starting at 9 p.m. If you dare?

The horror comes with:
The Friend
Plauge DJ's
VJ's stuua & valone
Tickets: €7 (pre-tickets for students €5)
Age limit: 18

Tickets are sold at the Tampere Film Festival Office (Tullikamarinaukio 2, 2nd floor) starting on Feb 23. In addition, there are tickets sold at the campus of Finlayson on Feb 25 and Mar 7-8 at 8.30 a.m. - 3.30 p.m. (the cafeteria). Tickets are also sold at the Tamko Office (the Kuntokatu campus).

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