Maija Blåfield’s Scenic View (2023, in featured image) is screened at Interfilm Berlin, taking place from November 14–19, 2023 in Berlin, Germany. The work is screened in the special programme Reality Bites on November 15, 2023 at 9pm in Unterfilm… Read more »
Jussi Eerola’s Grasshopper shown in two screening programmes at PÖFF Shorts
Jussi Eerola’s Grasshopper (2023, in featured image) takes part in PÖFF shorts, taking place from November 7–15, 2023 in Tallinn, Estonia. The work is screened in two screening programmes: Night cinema on Thursday November 9, 2023 at 9pm in Terminal… Read more »
New non-fiction works in AV-arkki’s archive / Autumn ’23
Featured image: Helka Heinonen: Heartbeats (2023) Discover AV-arkki’s latest acquisitions for our online archive below. For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Maija Blåfield: Scenic View (2023, 15:45) Finland has the most forest in Europe, but primeval forest has… Read more »
New installations, VR and performance based works in AV-arkki’s archive / Autumn ’23
Featured image: Paola Fernanda Guzmán Figueroa: Returning to the Island (2022) Discover AV-arkki’s latest acquisitions for our online archive below. For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. New performance based works Annette Arlander: Dear Spruce 1–7 (2023, 02:16:04) Seven… Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s My Home on view at Goethe Institute, Prague
Azar Saiyar’s My Home is installed at Goethe Institute, Prague from November 17–23, 2023, as a part of a programme presenting works from the Arsenal Berlinale Forum Expanded catalogue. The films are screened for a week each over a six-week… Read more »
New short fiction, music and dance films in AV-arkki’s archive / Autumn ’23
Featured image: Karolina Kucia: We Bites Us (2023) Discover AV-arkki’s latest acquisitions for our online archive below. For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. New short fiction Risto-Pekka Blom: Last Call (2024, 09:57) The lawnmower, the vacuum cleaner and… Read more »
Sasha Huber included in a group show at Aargauer Kunsthaus
Sasha Huber partakes in a group exhibition titled Stranger in the Village – Reflecting on Racism with James Baldwin, taking place 03.09.2023 – 07.01.2024 at Aargauer Kunsthaus. “In his famous text Stranger in the Village, the US-American writer James Baldwin… Read more »
Short films by Jan Ijäs, Maija Blåfield and Risto-Pekka Blom screened at Nordic Film Days Lübeck
Jan Ijäs’s House of the Wickedest Man in the World (2023, in featured image), Maija Blåfield’s Scenic View (2023) and Risto-Pekka Blom’s Oh no, Lasse Falls! (2023) are screened at Nordic Film Days Lübeck, taking place from November 1–5, 2023…. Read more »
Rencontres internationales features moving image works by several AV-arkki’s artists
Matti Harju’s Ecstasy (2023, in featured image), Antti Tanttu’s Noli Timere (2022), Jenni Toikka’s Prelude Op. 28 No. 2 (2022) and Jussi Eerola’s Grashopper (2023) are screened at Rencontres internationales, taking place October 30–November 5, 2023 in Paris, France. Timo… Read more »
Leena Pukki’s The Time of a Slime Mold screened at SLA Art Space Animation Film Festival
Leena Pukki’s The Time of a Slime Mold (2021, in featured image) has been selected to be screened at the SLA Art Space Animation Film Festival, taking place from October 25–28, 2023 in New York City, US. The screening featuring… Read more »
Short films by Hanna Kaihlanen, Jarkko Räsänen, Tuomas A. Laitinen and Timo Wright & Kohei Okada-Skogorev screened at Ji.hlava IDFF
AV-arkki’s member artists’ films have been selected for Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, taking place from October 24–29, 2023 in Jihlava, Czech Republic. Hanna Kaihlanen’s Hovering Over Us (2023) competes in the Short Joy competition on Thursday October 26 at… Read more »
Panu Johansson’s Water Tower Symphony and Milja Viita’s Delight at Robert St. screened at Antimatter Media Art Festival, Canada
Panu Johansson’s Water Tower Symphony (2023, in featured image) and Milja Viita’s Delight at Robert St. (2023) will be screened at Antimatter Media Art Festival, held from October 20–29 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The screening of Panu Johansson’s Water… Read more »
Jarkko Räsänen’s Altlanti screened in the shorts film competition of Split Film Festival
Jarkko Räsänen’s Altlanti (2023) is screened in the short film competition of the Split Film Festival, held from October 12–21 2023 in Croatia. How would the AI imagine a collective performance in the lost Atlantis? An etude with Stable Diffusion… Read more »
Short films by Maija Blåfield, Pink Twins, Marja Helander, Arttu Nieminen and Milja Viita at Uppsala Short Film Festival
This year’s Uppsala Short Film Festival is held on October 23–29, 2023 in Uppsala, Sweden. The festival features Maija Blåfield’s Scenic View (2023, in featured image) and Pink Twins’ The Transient (2023) in competition, while Marja Helander’s Áfruvvá (Mermaid) (2022),… Read more »
Saara Ekström’s Amnion and Hanna Hovitie’s Square the Circle screened at Flight International Film Festival
Saara Ekström’s Amnion (2023, in featured image) and Hanna Hovitie’s Square the Circle (2023) have been chosen for Flight International Film Festival, taking place October 18–22, 2023 in Genoa, Italy. Amnion is screened in Cinema Gioiello on Friday October 20… Read more »
Pink Twins’ The Transient and Ánnámáret Ensemble & Marja Viitahuhta at Fredrikstad Animation Festival
Pink Twins’ The Transient (2023, in featured image) is screened at Fredrikstad Animation Festival taking place October 19–22, 2023 in Fredrikstad, Norway. The screening titled Abstraction at hoi polloi takes place on Thursday October 19 at 6pm. This year the… Read more »
Present
Sini Pelkki
New work
A composition of a human figure placed in a challenging position. The impossibility of the composition is discharged into movement and sound, into a stream towards the free form of the performer, camera and image. Present is a cry on photographic paper, on film, where the outlines of the body and the space and time of a... Read more »
Guests of Honor
Paula Lehtonen
New work
In this speechless video, a dinner is laid on the table. Arriving guests are creatures that are typically found on the plate. The work aims to present this farm animal as an equal to humans, even though the situation, and the perspective, is human-centred.
Read more »Last Call
Risto-Pekka Blom
New work
The lawnmower, the vacuum cleaner and the tram are using up the last of electricity man has left behind on earth. Man behaving badly has finally been evicted from Earth, which is a good thing for other species.
Read more »Sematectonia
Joonas Hyvönen
New work
Sematectonia is a 3D animation where a character scoring basketball throws behind his back finds himself stuck in a loop in which he, as if cursed, keeps producing the same content over and over again, aware of his situation but unable to stop. As the environment becomes even weirder, the protagonist must confront it as... Read more »
Hovering Over Us
Hanna Kaihlanen
New work
Very small beings are often behind major events on the planet. Hovering over us observes mosquitoes, the tiny creatures that float around us. The hybrid film dives into a reality where the smallest creatures have become unpredictably significant. Past, present and the imaginative overlap and create strange visions, where... Read more »
Homo sapiens
Juhani Koivumäki
New work
Homo sapiens is a short film about a family whose entire life happens in their home. They have no contact with their species partners and live under constant surveillance. The family knows nothing but the prevailing circumstances. Not even the viewer knows who is watching them.
Read more »Game Over
Nina Lassila
New work
In Game Over, a hunter encounters a deer and receives a message. It is a similar story to that of Hubert, who goes out hunting and encounters a deer with a lit-up cross over its horns. After his vision, Hubert gives up hunting and becomes a pious person. Later he would be canonised as Saint Hubert. Stories and legends about... Read more »
Sound Recordings in Kalasatama Helsinki 2023
Marjatta Oja
New work
Sound Recordings in Kalasatama Helsinki 2023 looks at the he environment we are living in and the parameters we are supposed to trust in our every day lives. It looks like there are several contradictions that should be accepted without questions. A question in a home setting arises: How many technology devices are we able... Read more »
Everything Flows...
Ilkka Pitkänen
New work
A video triptych filmed on Örö Island. On the left, a view from a cliff towards the sea. In the middle, the same landscape filmed through the bore of a cannon. On the right, a video of the moving sea surface magnified 100 000 times. A distinctive landscape depiction and a study of perceiving colors.
Read more »Fukushima – The Home That Once Was
Timo Wright
New work
Meet the former residents of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident’s Exclusion Zone, who share their experiences of the loss of home, importance of community, and the fragility of memories. Walk freely in the 3D-captures of former homes and gardens and create your own version of the film.
Read more »Returning to the Island
Paola Fernanda Guzmán Figueroa
New work
Strolling in the streets of Helsinki together with a plastic bag full of water, Paola is trying to find something. She sees something between the water. Finally, she can see what she was looking for: her parents are swimming in the Atlantic Ocean. Through the work, Paola explores topics related to fluidity, migration, and... Read more »
Mommy say something to the camera, mom!
Paola Fernanda Guzmán Figueroa
New work
Paola reconstructs her past and reflects on the reasons why she is away from her homeland and family. She uses archive material showcasing memories including the graduation of her mother, a family journey to Margarita Island in Venezuela in search of a new life, and the birth of a new member in the family.
Read more »5, 50, 100 Years From Now
Anu Pennanen
New work
5, 50, 100 Years from Now looks to the future in an era of resource-based conflict and global environmental crisis. The short essay video is based on Neste gas station customer's reflections on what the future will look like. 5, 50, 100 Years from Now weaves together people's imagination with the associative imagery of the... Read more »
Birth of a Grenade
Shubhangi Singh
New work
For over a hundred years, when the ships belonging to the East India Company brought barrels of saltpetre to the shores of England, they also brought with them a force that determines how we exist in the world today. Saltpetre, also known by its chemical name, Potassium Nitrate (KNO3) was a coveted global commodity that was... Read more »