“Frame Fusion” screening presents a selection of six shorts where modern talents and pioneering female directors converge. Uniting creativity from the 60s, 80s & 2020s, we pay tribute to their audacious spirit and taste. The selection is curated by Film Tonight!, a Helsinki-based collective founded in April 2023 by Helena Aleksandrova, Jelica Jerinić, Roxana Sadvokassova and Mariangela Pluchino - four filmmakers bound by shared passion for cinema, feminist values, common film school history and immigrant background. Independence and boldness possessed by the six directors of ‘Frame Fusion’ is something that fed our own spark. Join us to embrace the past, present & future of avant-garde cinema. Infimes Détails /Sitni detalji /Minutiae (Serbia, Germany. 2022, 6 min) Directed by: Miljana Niković Progression of 122 words through their sound and meaning, paired with 60 found footage clips from 1950s TV-commercials. Each of the inserts appears twice as a pattern of déjà-vu cognitive associations, evoking a multitude of emotions from banal dailiness, flashbacks, or behaviours, slowly leading us from one particular feeling to its opposite. My Name is Oona (Sweden, USA. 1969, 10 min) Directed by: Gunvor Nelson My Name is Oona was Nelson’s final breakthrough on the avant-garde film scene. The sound consists of Nelson’s daughter, Oona, repeating the names of the days of the week and of her saying “my name is Oona”. The latter is edited into an expressive rhythmic structure that accompanies the visual structure of the film that plunges into the experience of a child. Ceiling (Czechia. 1962, 41 min) Directed by: Věra Chytilová Informed by the director’s experiences working as a fashion model, Věra Chytilová’s remarkably assured graduation film—which she was able to make only by duping state censors with a phony script—mixes vérité observation and New Wave stylistic experimentation to depict the everyday life of a model (Marta Kanovská), the ways in which her body is commodified by the industry, and the alienation she feels. Věra Chytilová directed the Czech New Wave masterpiece Daisies (1966). Commission (Latvia. 2020, 6 min) Director: Ieva Balode (founder of Baltic Analog Lab collective) Shot in significant Soviet era architecture monuments (by that referring to Soviet time failed gender equality propaganda), using sacral gestures and scenes once associated with B class sci-fi movies, the film serves as humorous, yet rebellious propaganda material of female role and emerging power. SEXPARTY (Netherlands, Germany. 1987, 10 min) Directed by: Angelika Levi A filmic fragment shot during a women’s sex party in the punk and squatter scene of the 80’s, Sexparty works both as testament to the struggle for sexual liberation, as well as testimony of the precariousness of queer culture. Love, Dad (Czech Republic, Slovakia. 2021, 13 min) Directed by: Diana Cam Van Nguyen Description: A short film about ties and gaps between a child and a parent. The author rediscovers letters her dad used to write her from prison. That love seems to be gone now. She decides to write back in hope to find the connection again. She puts in writing what could not be said: blaming him for the family‘s break-up but also trying to understand. You can read more about the collective here: https://www.film-tonight.com/