Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) was awarded as the Best Nordic Film at the 33rd Minimalen Short Film Festival, held online from January 12–17. The jury states: “The film strikes a beautiful balance between imagination, reality and what we choose… Read more »
Several shorts by our artists in the Nordic Competition of Minimalen Short Film Festival
The Nordic Competition of the 33rd Minimalen Short Film Festival includes several short films by our artists. The Norwegian festival is held online from January 12–17 2021. Niina Suominen’s experimental animation What Time Is? (2020) and Maija Blåfield’s award-winning documentary… Read more »
Pilvi Takala’s If Your Heart Wants It (Remix) in the international short film competition of Stuttgart Filmwinter
Pilvi Takala’s If Your Heart Wants It (Remix) (2020) was selected for the international short film competition of Stuttgarter Filmwinter, held online from January 6–20 2021. Takala’s film is included in the International Short Film Competition 3, available from January… Read more »
In Memoriam
Jarkko Räsänen
New work
The video deals with personal grief. The artist made a camera software with Max/MSP and lit a candle. He took still photos of the candle and created abstracted animation based on them accompanied with his own ambient music. The abstraction process of the candle images opened a new universe of meanings to the final... Read more »
Polar Stratospheric Clouds
Jarkko Räsänen
New work
The work is inspired by reported observations of polar stratospheric clouds in Finland. They are highly colourful clouds, but their beauty is based on chemical composition that is toxic for ozone layer of Earth. The artist has created a software in Max/MSP environment that allows him to animate still photos by scaling... Read more »
Our artists’ videos in Ouroboros online film programme hosted by the Finnish Institute in Estonia
Ouroboros is an online film programme hosted by the Finnish Institute in Estonia from December 21–31 2020. You can view the programme here. Connecting the Earth’s oceans and the cosmos, the five video works included in the programme Ouroboros speak… Read more »
New artists’ moving image in our online archive / December ’20 pt II
Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Installations: Annette Arlander: With an Alder in Kaivopuisto (2018, 01:40:10) This time-lapse video is part of the project “Performing with Plants”. I sat on… Read more »
New artists’ moving image in our online archive / December ’20 pt I
Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Saara Ekström: Shadow Codex (2020, 12:30) Filmed in the empty Turku County Prison, Finland, (active between 1835–2007) Shadow Codex documents the surveillance machinery, architecture… Read more »
AV-arkki’s Distribution Catalogue for 2020-2021 is now available online!
Our catalogue offers a diverse portrait of recent single channel art works by artists and filmmakers based in Finland. AV-arkki’s Distribution Catalogue 2020-2021 is intended for professional preview. The catalogue is distributed via AV-arkki’s international distribution programme for professional audiences… Read more »
Scope
Saku Soukka
New work
Scope consists of programmed photographs, texts and music. It deals with dissociative experience and fluidity of the human mind and the self. The ”I” and ”you” of the work merge into one at the beginning of the work. After that the human mind wanders, drifts, and associates unexpectedly.
Read more »Seepage
Camille Auer
New work
The outer limits of a body are porous. We continuously seep into our surroundings and they seep into us. Time is a border, a boundary we lean on to. It bends around us, future seeping into past, past into future. This is an ASMR-video about presence and grooming the surfaces of a human.
Read more »Meet the Artist – Sini Pelkki
Sini Pelkki (b.1978) works with photography and moving image. In her works, landscapes, figures and objects turn into layered narratives that lead to various paths and ambiguous readings. We discussed her inspirations, her style and her working methods. Inspirations and… Read more »
Instants Vidéo opens its exhibition and part of its projections in December
Festival Instants Vidéo has faced some changes due to COVID-19 situation in France and Italy. Some of the programme was cancelled while the exhibition and part of the screening programme were postponed to December and are about to open. The… Read more »
Sami van Ingen’s Flame screened in the Contemporary Art Centre “Typography” in Krasdonar, Russia
Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) is screened in the programme “Fireworks” in the Contemporary Art Centre “Typography” in Krasdonar, Russia, on Saturday, December 5. The programme, curated by Dmitry Frolov, was initially part of the Moscow International Experimental Film Festival… Read more »
Haemocyanin
Tuomas A. Laitinen
New work
Haemocyanin is based on a strand of artworks and research on ecological change, consciousness, and mythologies via octopuses. Since 2016, this process has resulted to 12 glass objects made for octopuses. In Haemocyanin, the octopus is seen in interaction with the glass object.... Read more »
The Other Night
Joel Autio
New work
Dreams and memories merge together at the moment of disappearance. Recurring visions and gestures are drawn into the void within the portrait of a fading self.
Read more »Finnish media art screened at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna
David Muth, along with the Belvedere Museum, has curated a selection of Finnish media art to be screened as part of the Blickle Archive series. The screening will take place on Thursday, December 10 at Belvedere 21, in Vienna, Austria…. Read more »
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic and Joel Autio’s The Other Night compete at Beijing ISFF
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic (2020) and Joel Autio’s The Other Night (2019) were selected for the international competition of the Beijing International Short Film Festival. BISFF is held from December 4 – 14. Eerola’s film was also recently shown… Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s Monument of Distance in the “East from West” online screening at Beursschouwburg
Azar Saiyar’s Monument of Distance (2018) is included in the screening programme “East from West“, curated by Ingel Vaikla and previously screened during Tallinn Photomonth 2019. The online screening takes place on Wednesday, December 2 at 19:30 and is hosted… Read more »
Departing Shadow
Sini Pelkki
New work
The outlines of oneself merge into a given space. An image of shifting connections, the rhythm and movement of contemplation. A conversation between one or two. Departing Shadow examines the forming of a connection and its failure. The interaction and attempted dialogue between a space, a performer and a camera.... Read more »
Unheroic Labours #2
Charles Quevillon
New work
The work revisits Hercules’s second labour, which was to kill the multi-headed water serpent Hydra. However, in the artwork, killing is replaced with dancing, and the monster Hydra is not the mythic hydra, but rather the real freshwater polyp Hydra. And cats like water.
Read more »Monitor Man in the Time of Pandemic
Yassine Khaled
New work
Monitor Man in the Time of Pandemic explores global crisis from the time of COVID-19 to the social instabilities in the Western world. Yassine Khaled's Monitor Man concept aims to transgress national and physical borders by enabling new kind of interaction across virtual meeting points with six participants from three... Read more »
Laura Horelli’s Newstime streamed in the “Imagined Community” programme by etc. galerie
Laura Horelli’s Uutisten aika (Newstime, 2019) is included in the streaming programme “Imagined Community IV – Broadcastig” by etc. galerie, based in Prague, Czech Republic. The programme will be online until December 9. Premiered in Forum Expanded strand of Berlinale… Read more »
Mox Mäkelä’s Strange screened at Geelong Underground Film Festival, Australia
Mox Mäkelä’s feature-length audio play movie Strange (2018) will have its Australian premiere at Geelong Underground Film Festival, based in Australia but held online from November 28–29. “The ‘Strange’ will enter a house of the human world, with the trophy… Read more »
Soile Mottisenkangas’ They Go Gentle Into That Night Work screened at PÖFF, Tallinn
Soile Mottisenkangas’ They Go Gentle Into That Night Work (2020) was selected to be screened at Pimedate Ööde Film Festival in Tallinn, Estonia. The film is included in the Ascent of a Woman – Live Action Documentaries 2 -programme, which… Read more »
The Wave
Alisa Javits
New work
The Wave is about letting go of the control we try to have over everything and trusting the intuitive feeling which helps us navigate in life. It is about daring to move towards the unseen and personal freedom.
Read more »A Small City Symphony
Markus Viljanen
New work
A short documentary film about people in the Berlin main railway station. People coming and going, appearing and disappearing
Read more »Milja Viita’s When We Are Nothing Left in the experimental short film competition at Amarcort Film Festival
Milja Viita’s When We Are Nothing Left (2019) was selected for the experimental short film competition at Amarcort Film Festival, based in Rimini but held online from November 24 – December 13. When We Are Nothing Left is a minimalist… Read more »
Outline
Markus Viljanen
New work
Outline is a music video and triptych of cafe life. It's also a short essay on the ontology of images. It shows pictures of people in small heptagon shape Cafe Mutteri in Helsinki.
Read more »New artists’ moving image in our online archive / October–November ’20 pt II
Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Animations Gun Holmström: The Spiritual Life of a Spruce (2020, 08:00) A charcoal animation with a message from nature. Life is flow, diversity, and… Read more »