Rooms, dreams and memories
The solo performance Rooms marks the fifth anniversary of Memory Wax. In Rooms, Memory Wax is taking their quiet, cinematic and distinctive expression further to another level. A performance about how we create our own inner and outer rooms, how we frame ourselves and open doors to new possibilities.

“With sincere precision Azcue and co-coreographer Johanna Jonasson fills the fundamental and naked idea with soul, heart and body.” – Boel Gerell, Sydsvenskan

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The Pumpeli Awards is a national contest of the best Finnish music videos, organized annually by the Oulu Music Video Festival in Oulu, Finland. The awards include six (6) honorary mentions, Kansanpumpeli i.e. People’s Pumpeli for the audience’s choice, Teinipumpeli i.e. Teen Pumpeli for the best upcoming director and the main award Kultapumpeli i.e. Golden Pumpeli for the best video in the Finnish music video contest.
 
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Check out the latest winner:

I Was a Teenage Satan Worshipper – Amsterdamned from Teemu Niukkanen on Vimeo.

In August 2010, French filmmaker Vincent Moon andEfterklang’s 8 piece-live band met up on an island off the Danish coast. The objective was to shoot a film. A film with the same length as an album, and a film full of performances, experiments and collaborations. 
Over an intense period of 4 days Efterklangcollaborated with more than 200 local musicians, kids and their own parents, creating new performances and interpretations of songs from their album Magic Chairs (4AD, Rumraket 2010). It was all filmed by Vincent Moon who same time conducted several filmic and musical experiments with Efterklang as his dedicated playmates.
An Island is an unconventional music performance film and an abstract documentary about a band and an island. The running time is 50 minutes.

The two evenings of screenings and live performances on the rooftop will feature personal portraits, shorter tales, music videos and feature films.

 

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We Jazz is a bi-monthly club night at Helsinki’s Kuudes Linja venue, occasionally hopping to other club spots as well. Thus far these have included the likes of Nublu in New York, The Caves in Edinburgh and so on, plus of course the main Finnish jazz events such as Pori Jazz, Tampere Jazz Happening and the Jyväskylä Arts Festival, to name but a few. The We Jazz club night in Helsinki has been lauded as one of the best club jazz sessions in Europe at the moment by the likes of previous guests Jazzanova, Jazzman Gerald, Povo and Perry Louis of London’s Jazzcotech collective.

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The narrative revolves around police officer Amadeus Warnebring, tone-deaf scion of a distinguished musical family, and his attempts to track down a group of six guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city. The drumming set pieces correspond to an avant-garde score with four hilariously titled movements. Where the short involved the six drummers imaginatively using standard apartment furnishings as their instruments, the feature unleashes them on an unspecified city’s civic and cultural institutions. Including an amusing backstory for each of the soberly dressed drummers as well as their nemesis, music-hating investigator Warnebring, the film creates a treat for the eyes and ears from the dull, repetitive sounds of everyday life.
Directors: Ola Simonsson & Johannes Stjärne Nilsson
Sweden 2010

Movies are a big part of New York—and an even bigger part of TriBeCa. Which is why Grand Screen, Tribeca Grand Hotel’s richly decorated private screening room, serves as a destination for film screenings and premieres. Featuring classic plush leather seating, state-of-the-art projection, and surround sound, Grand Screen continues the tradition of film in a neighborhood known for the best in cinema.

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