The horror film examines temptations, urban legends and true crime. It follows two night guards exchanging spooky stories about the abandoned amusement park next door. However, the night takes a creepy turn when one of the legends starts to come to life.
Read more »The film illuminates the process of value formation by tracing the paths that connect family and home, entrepreneurship and work.
Read more »The last Art for Art’s Sake screening of the year takes place on Tuesday 10 December 2024 and continues the theme of being touched by examining the impossibility, difficulty and contradictions of touch. In Marjatta Oja‘s work, Dialogue 3101 1990… Read more »
Jussi Eerola’s Grasshopper will be awarded the Eisenstein Award at Blow-Up Arthouse Film Festival, held in Chicago, US. Grasshopper (2023) is a minimalistic musical. Night falls down on empty business premises – and lights go up! Finnish filmmaker and cinematographer… Read more »
Iona Roisin’s An Uncountable Number of Threads (featured image), Anu Pennanen’s 50, 100 Years From Now, Azar Saiyar’s Solar Book and Milja Viita & Veli Granö’s The King will be screened at Beijing International Short Film Festival (BISFF), held from… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’ Two Wars and Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh’s You You Can’t Get What You Want But You Can Get Me compete at Alcalá de Henares Film Festival – Alcine, held from 7 to 17 November 2024 in Madrid,… Read more »
Shubhangi Singh’s Birth of a Grenade (2024) is included in the program of Magma – International Short Film Festival, held from 4–9 November, 2024 in Acireale, Italy. The film will be screened in the Eksperimenta section, which is dedicated to experimental… Read more »
Hanna Kaihlanen’s Hovering Over Us (featured image) has been nominated for the Golden Key for the best documentary short film by the selection committees of the 41st Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, held from 12–17 November, 2024 in Kassel,… Read more »
The overarching theme of the fall season of AV-arkki and Cinema Orion’s Art for Art’s sake series is touch. The second show in the autumn series on November 5th examines the relationships between humans and other living beings. The works… Read more »
The video piece “Bliss” explores minimalist aesthetics by employing generative means of production. Its foundation lies in one-dimensional cellular automata – a mathematically determined “universe” where each row of pixels derives its appearance from analysing its preceding row.
Read more »Sanna Liljander’s When Will the Day Break, August Joensalo’s Rootless, Rosaliina Paavilainen’s The Beauty Odyssey, Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh’s You Can’t Get What You Want But You Can Get Me and Anssi Kasitonni’s Pena’s Special Hauling are included in… Read more »
Erkki Kurenniemi’s Computer Music (1966) is included in the program of Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, held from October 25–November 3, 2024 in Jihlava, Czech Republic. The film is included in the section Fascinations: Computing Film, which explores the “forerunners”… Read more »
Saara Ekström’s Geopsyche (2024), Paula Lehtonen’s Guests of Honor (2024) and Anssi Kasitonni’s Pena’s Special Hauling (2024) are included in the program of Festival Les Instants Vidéo 2024. Geopsyche and Guests of Honor will be on view in the exhibition,… Read more »
Uppsala Short Film Festival is held from October 21–27, 2024. Several films by AV-arkki’s artists are again included in the festival program. Ville Koskinen’s teeth (2024) (featured image) is screened in the International Competition series titled Secret Stories. In the… Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s Solar Book (2024, in featured image) and Milja Viita & Veli Granö’s The King (2024) have been selected to compete at Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, held from October 13–20 in Paris, France. The King… Read more »
Underdog is an experimental documentary exploring the worlds of dogs and people. Filmed in black and white, it reflects on the filmmaker’s childhood experiences with social class and culture, drawing parallels between the selective breeding of pedigree dogs and the complexities of life in a diverse world.
Read more »The work is part of the New Pangaea project, which explores the relationship between humans and plants on the island of Seili. Habitats have been transformed over the centuries by human impact. As a result, some species have completely disappeared from the island. The video shows the traces of these changes on Seili.
Read more »The work is part of the New Pangaea project, which explores the relationship between humans and plants on the island of Seili. The island's native vegetation is being restored through grazing and the removal of invasive alien species. For example, the rugosa rose has been completely eradicated from Seili Island.
Read more »The work is part of the New Pangaea project, which explores the relationship between humans and plants on the island of Seili. There are many definitions of weeds, but they are all helplessly human-centred. The plants in the video are considered weeds in Seili's flower beds.
Read more »There are 11-12 exhibition times available for Mediabox in 2025. The space includes a fixed projector, media player & active loudspeakers. Mediabox is an exhibition space for media art, located in Forum Box. The programme presents recent media art pieces… Read more »