Finnish Animation Guild’s Masterclass series at Cable Factory’s Konttori CONTINUES!

Jenny Jokela – Sweet Like Lemons
24 April 2024 at 17:30
Cable Factory’s Konttori, Tallberginkatu 1, Helsinki
Free entry.

Wednesday Pictures are screening events organised by MUU in collaboration with different partners at Cable Factory’s Konttori. Finnish Animation Guild’s Masterclasses offer an unique opportunity for the audience to hear more about animation art. In the series of Masterclasses a diverse selection of Finnish and international animation artists talks about their films and working process and their work is being screened.

The guest speaker of the second Masterclass, on Wednesday 24th of April, will be Jenny Jokela (b.1990), a Finnish animation director and artist based in Edinburgh. She graduated from MA Animation at Royal College of Art, London, in 2017.

Jokela has won multiple awards including Cristal for best graduation film at Annecy 2018 for her film “Barbeque”, and her film “Sweet Like Lemons” got Bafta-longlisted in 2023.

Her films tend to explore sexuality and trauma through visceral, playful and symbolic painted animation. Her artistic work includes having her animation performed by a large ensemble at the Pompidou gallery in Paris in 2022.

Jokela also directs children’s TV series; Hoppsorna (YLE, Finland, 2018-2022) and Arne Alligator (SF Studios, Sweden, 2023). Her commercial clients include BBC, Tate, Adult Swim, Channel 4, Disney, UEFA and Vogue.

These Masterclasses are organized with financial support of the Promotion Centre For Audiovisual Culture (AVEK).

Finnish Animation Guild is a national organization of animation professionals, animation students and animation enthusiasts. Finnish Animation Guild promotes the visibility and recognition of animation art in Finland and the general operating conditions of the animation industry. Finnish Animation Guild was founded in 1998 and currently has over 200 members. www.animaatiokilta.fi

The Cable Factory’s Konttori is a large two-storey space at the Cable Factory that includes a café, a shop, a reading room with cultural magazines, and an event venue. Entrance to Konttori is in the gatehouse leading from Tallberginkatu to the courtyard of the Cable Factory, opposite the mural by Thierry Noir. In the cozy multipurpose space you can enjoy refreshments, snacks or even a glass of wine, while watching short films. www.kaapelitehdas.fi/kaapelitehtaan-konttori