The official selection of International Film Festival Rotterdam includes several new films by our artists and other exciting picks. The festival will be held from January 25 – February 4 2024 in The Netherlands. Feature-length films Jenni Luhta’s and Lauri Luhta’s… Read more »
Niina Suominen’s, Hanna Hovitie’s, and Marja Viitahuhta’s short films compete at Stuttgarter Filmwinter
Niina Suominen’s Golden Headacher (2022, in featured image), Hanna Hovitie’s Square the Circle (2023), and Marja Viitahuhta’s Dološ Niegut (2022) were selected for the international competition of Stuttgarter Filmwinter, held from January 17–23 2024 in Germany. Hanna Hovitie’s Square the… Read more »
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic screened at Jameel Arts Centre
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic (2020) will be screened at Jameel Arts Centre on January 20 2024. Curated by Hind Mezaina, the screening is titled “Traversing Landscapes“. Free and open to all, the event is part of Night School 2024: There… Read more »
The Scent of the Changing Sea
Kati Roover
New work
The Scent of the Changing Sea is a video essay and installation that weaves together multisensory experiential knowledge and scientific observations in a poetic reflection on the possible futures of the Baltic Sea. The video essay approaches empathically the marine ecosystems and their manifold transformations.
Read more »The Pine in the Park
Annette Arlander
New work
For a year, between January 3rd and December 31st 2022, the artist was pondering and performing for the camera together with a pine tree growing in Kaivopuisto Park in Helsinki. First she repeated two poses and then added a third one; thus three images are from the start inserted into a larger image of the pine tree.
Read more »More new works in AV-arkki’s archive! Winter ’23
Featured image: Dora Dalila Cheffi: Tunisian Dance Tutorial With Mamou (2023) Discover AV-arkki’s latest acquisitions for our online archive below. For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Jaakko Autio: On the Border (2022, installation) On The Border is a… Read more »
Timo Wright’s virtual reality documentary Fukushima – The Home That Once Was selected for Slamdance Film Festival
Timo Wright & Kohei Okada-Skogorev’s Fukushima – The Home That Once Was (2023) has been selected for Slamdance Film Festival, taking place from January 19–25, 2024 in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, US. The film is part of… Read more »
Lava
Jade Kallio
New work
Lava is a love letter to things that cannot be written about: love, exciting piles of twigs, longing, a disappearing landscape, memories you can’t trust. Either writing hurts, or it is impossible to find the words. Lava is a continuation of the working group’s previous work Magma (2020). Both works deal with... Read more »
Marja Helander’s short films at Stadtkino Basel
A selection of Marja Helander’s short films will be screened at Stadtkino Basel, Switzerland from January 1 – February 11 2024 as supporting films for Anna Magnani retrospective. Birds in the Earth (Eatnanvuloš lottit, 2018) will be screened before Vittorio de… Read more »
Geopsyche
Saara Ekström
New work
Geopsyche is a journey into deep time – the remarkably slow geological events beyond the reach of our comprehension. By searching for connections between geology, evolution and the subconscious, the film escorts us towards mythical landscapes and a consciousness amassed in the earth’s chronicles, where the... Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s Scenic View screened at London Short Film Festival
Maija Blåfield’s Scenic View (2023) is screened at London Short Film Festival, taking place from January 19–28, 2024 in London, UK. The film is featured in the thematic screening titled: Documentary: Journey To Earth on January 21 at 3pm in… Read more »
Minimalen Short Film Festival features films by Azar Saiyar, Maija Blåfield and Hanna Hovitie
The 36th edition of Minimalen Short Film Festival is held from January 23–28, 2024 in Trondheim, Norway. The festival’s programme includes Azar Saiyar’s Solar Book (2023, in featured image), Maija Blåfield’s Scenic View (2023) and Hanna Hovitie’s Square the Circle… Read more »
RGB Experiment #001
Pilvari Pirtola
New work
RGB Experiment #001 is the first in a series of experiments on color film. The work inspects separately filmed colors in depth.
Read more »f41
Pilvari Pirtola
New work
Code F41.1 is the diagnosis code used for Generalized Anxiety Disorder. It is an anxiety disorder characterized by excessive, uncontrollable and often irrational worry, that is, apprehensive expectations about events or activities. This excessive worry often interferes with daily functioning.
Read more »Roma Mountain
Jaana Kokko
New work
The film Roma Mountain has as its starting point the political awakening of Finnish-Estonian writer and leftist politician Hella Wuolijoki (1886-1954) and how she describes it in her memoirs. This awakening happened in her garden in Walga, in 1906 during the aftermath of the First Russian revolution of 1905.... Read more »
AV-arkki’s Distribution Catalogue 2023–2024 is published now!
Featured image: Shubhangi Singh: Birth of a Grenade (2024) Our catalogue offers a diverse portrait of recent single channel art works by artists and filmmakers based in Finland. AV-arkki’s Distribution catalogue 2023–2024 is intended for professional preview. The catalogue is… Read more »
Open call: A customized festival distribution plan for your new film
AV-arkki will implement a project on the international distribution, sales and renewal of international networks of Finnish media art in the years 2022–2024. AV-arkki’s collaborations partners in the project are Raina Film Festival Distribution Oy and Oy Poike Productio Ab…. Read more »
Survival Guide for a Post-Apocalyptic Child (Z)
Nastja Säde Rönkkö
New work
Z is for zombies. You were bitten a few hours ago. We were going for a walk with the dog in the woods and it just happened. A creature in the forest, hiding under a space blanket. Survival Guide for a Post-Apocalyptic Child (Z) is part of Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s 26-part video series, based on the 26... Read more »
Survival Guide for a Post-Apocalyptic Child (Y)
Nastja Säde Rönkkö
New work
Y is always for you. Your solar aura and warmth and freedom arrived through and within your letters. The things you wrote, and I read in my candlelight when the solar storm had taken our electricity. It was a strong geomagnetic storm that caused navigation issues, problems with satellites and beautiful northern lights.... Read more »
Survival Guide for a Post-Apocalyptic Child (X)
Nastja Säde Rönkkö
New work
X is wondering when a thing becomes a thing, and when some other thing becomes too much. X is to wonder how do you know if not by intuition, when peculiarity becomes overpowering or when danger becomes arousing or when violence escapes its sexy boundaries? The short film is part of Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s... Read more »
Survival Guide for a Post-Apocalyptic Child (W)
Nastja Säde Rönkkö
New work
W is for warmth and wasps. You join me when I watch the wasp doing its immaculate job of building a grey nest under the ceiling of the sauna. Survival Guide for a Post-Apocalyptic Child (W) is part of Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s 26-part video series, based on the 26 letters of the alphabet.
Read more »Survival Guide for a Post-Apocalyptic Child (V)
Nastja Säde Rönkkö
New work
V is for venom. Venom leaking through your enlarged skin pores, venom vibrations and venom through your darkened eyes and venom released by your brain, heart, or other organ. Venom of words and venom of tongues. Survival Guide for a Post-Apocalyptic Child (V) is part of Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s... Read more »
Survival Guide for a Post-Apocalyptic Child (U)
Nastja Säde Rönkkö
New work
U is for universe and just that. When someone becomes your universe, it might be dangerous or not. You might struggle when your universe collapses or expands, or fits into just one song. Survival Guide for a Post-Apocalyptic Child (U) is part of Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s 26-part video series, based on the 26... Read more »
Ritual for the Rainbow
Sami Sänpäkkilä
New work
Ritual for the Rainbow is a story about four preteens who live outside of society's safety nets due to domestic violence. Ariel, Rupi, Liisa, and Hemmo make a living by shooting rats at a junkyard and collecting empty bottles. They lack role models and authority figures until they meet a Wiccan who organises rituals to... Read more »
Survival Guide for a Post-Apocalyptic Child (T)
Nastja Säde Rönkkö
New work
T is for trust, touch, tingle when I secretly touch you. T is to come home to somebody. I often think, come the end of the worlds, with whom would I run with? And where. Survival Guide for a Post-Apocalyptic Child (T) is part of Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s 26-part video series, based on the 26 letters of... Read more »
Survival Guide for a Post-Apocalyptic Child (S)
Nastja Säde Rönkkö
New work
S is for silence, softness, slings, sleep and snow. When I walk on this surface of stones and lava sand and little rocks and little creatures not from my planet, I think of survival: how to live a good life, not just to survive. Survival Guide for a Post-Apocalyptic Child (S) is part of Nastja Säde... Read more »
Survival Guide for a Post-Apocalyptic Child (R)
Nastja Säde Rönkkö
New work
R is for rot and ropes and ritual songs. You asked what I missed from the old worlds, and I answered that from the old worlds, I missed rituals. Survival Guide for a Post-Apocalyptic Child (R) is part of Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s 26-part video series, based on the 26 letters of the... Read more »
Survival Guide for a Post-Apocalyptic Child (Q)
Nastja Säde Rönkkö
New work
Q is for questions. You start with describing a place, a space. You will have questions and you will do the best you can with those. I have a lot of questions, you might say. I have a lot of answers, I might say. Survival Guide for a Post-Apocalyptic Child (Q) is part of Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s 26-part... Read more »
Tunisian Dance Tutorial With Mamou
Dora Dalila Cheffi
New work
The video shows charismatic showman Mamou teaching Tunisian dance moves in the spirit of Åke Blomqvist’s legendary dance school from the 1970s. The artist Dora Dalila Cheffi – who is of Tunisian-Finnish origin – interrogates the function of dance moves in Tunisian society as a tool for blurring the... Read more »
Survival Guide for a Post-Apocalyptic Child (P)
Nastja Säde Rönkkö
New work
P is for prayer and past phenomena and power. When thinking about survival and our waning planet, you need to think about power. Who has the power? We should have the power. What do we do with the power? We should do something. Survival Guide for a Post-Apocalyptic Child (P) is part of Nastja Säde... Read more »