Azar Saiyar’s My Home (2023) will be screened at Crossroads festival, held in San Francisco Cinematheque from September 8–10 2023. Founded by filmmaker Bruce Baillie in 1961, San Francisco Cinematheque is the Bay Area’s only dedicated venue for avan garde/experimental, underground and… Read more »
On the Edge II-IV
Annette Arlander
New work
The artist poses with a pine tree that grows on the edge of a sandpit on Örö island 30.11.2020
Read more »On the Edge I
Annette Arlander
New work
The artist poses with a pine tree that grows on the edge of a sandpit on Örö island 30.11.2020
Read more »teeth
Ville Koskinen
New work
In popular culture, the escalator has been depicted as a path to the afterlife. teeth portrays the metro station's escalators as an intermediate space and peeks to the other side of the conveyor - to the engine room where the workers who maintain the machinery are having lunch.
Read more »Tell it to the Pine 1-7
Annette Arlander
New work
The artist sits on the bent trunk of a pine tree on the western shore of Örö Island and talks to or catches up with the tree in Swedish as a recorded performance all in all seven times during the year.
Read more »Dear Spruce 1-7
Annette Arlander
New work
Seven letters are written in Finnish to the spruce on Harakka Island in various places near the tree during spring and summer 2020. The letters are read, recorded, and added to the soundtracks of the videos.
Read more »Heartbeats
Helka Heinonen
New work
A poem about heartbeats, blood, whales and birds. Heartbeats is a fragmentary story of growing up, which moves from feelings of dread by a seemingly empty basin of water to imagining and listening to non-human animals, breathing with them.
Read more »Apply for the exhibition time in Mediabox for 2024 – Deadline October 15 2023
There are 11 exhibition times available for Mediabox in 2024. The exhibitions times are free of charge for AV-arkki’s member artists who have paid their membership fee. The space includes a fixed projector, media player & active loudspeakers. Mediabox is… Read more »
Visiting curator showcase: Dmitry Frolov & Machinima / September 8 2023
AV-arkki is hosting a visiting curator showcase on September 8 2023 to honor Dmitry Frolov’s visit to Helsinki. Frolov stays in Helsinki from September 6–10 2023 in occasion of a special screening Ukraine Experimental: Desirous Bodies, Malign War in Kino… Read more »
Home
Shachindra Dass
New work
The walls of our home feel strong enough to protect from outsiders. It provides comfortable isolation. The occupants may fear their own subconscious fragility. Safety of the home is an illusion associated to a tiny space that we own and call our home. That space is within a bigger space called nature, no matter how hard we... Read more »
The King
Milja Viita Veli Granö
New work
The King is about a miraculous incident in Somero, Finland. Local musician Rauli Badding Somerjoki sent his song “Lights” to Elvis in 1975. He hoped an artist he admired would perform it. Badding's song could have lifted Elvis' career to a new height, even revolutionized the history of music. Badding believed... Read more »
Art for Art’s Sake – Fall season 2023 kicks off with Time Quartet, expanded cinema screening from Estonia
Art for Art’s Sake, the collaborative screening programme by AV-arkki – Centre for Finnish Media Art and Cinema Orion continues with the third season on Tuesday, August 29 2023 at 17.00 in Cinema Orion. The theme for the fall season… Read more »
Mika Taanila, Kristoffer Ala-Ketola, Leena Kela, and Shubhangi Singh in the group exhibition in Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn
A group exhibition Like a Windless Cloud opens on Friday, August 11 2023 in Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia. The exhibition is curated by Mariliis Rebane and includes sculptures by Touristes Tristes (Dylan Ray Arnold & Océane Bruel), series of postcards by Leena Kela, video works by artists Kristoffer Ala-Ketola,… Read more »
Last Breath of Snow
Maria Ångerman
New work
What happens in a deer’s mind when it encounters a human? The film is an immersive imaginative journey into the perception of the deer as well as the ecosystem it is part of.
Read more »Firefly
Carolin Koss
New work
Firefly is the debut single of Carolin Koss as a solo artist. The song is about navigating through dark spaces, facing fears, embracing pain, letting go and starting new. Carolin Koss is a Helsinki-based, German singer-songwriter, who started to sing from a very early age inspired by her dad’s huge record collection... Read more »
Free Fall
Carolin Koss
New work
Life is like flying from branch to branch, trying to find a nesting place. Seasons change and sometimes it is necessary to release oneself for a free fall. Free Fall is the third single of the solo artist Carolin Koss. The song was produced by Yaroslav Ivanov.
Read more »Gravitate
Carolin Koss
New work
When facing the dark side of life or our mind, it can feel like a gravitational force that pulls down below, a never-ending storm, a blow of fate. Darkness exists because there is light on the other side. After the storm follows the calm, and fate can change. The song is about transformation and finding... Read more »
The Last Tango
Niina Lehtonen Braun
New work
The Last Tango is the wistful closing song of Olento Orchestral's album Anatomia, with lyrics by light and video artist Jari Haanperä. Composed by Tellervo Kalleinen, the song was written during a joint exhibition trip between Haanperä and Kalleinen to South America back in 2004. The enchanting ink animations in... Read more »
Saara Ekström’s exhibition at Münsterland Festival, Germany
Saara Ekström’s exhibition “Designing with Nature” is part of the visual arts programme at Münsterland Festival. The exhibition is open in the Kolvenburg castle from August 20 to November 5 2023. Finnish artist Saara Ekström creates multi-layered experiences for the… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur screened at Open-Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, Germany
Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur (2022) will be screened at Open-Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, held from August 10–14 2023 in Weiterstadt, Germany. The screening of Le Saboteur takes place on Sunday, August 14, at 21:30. In Le Saboteur, an ex-saboteur gets back… Read more »
Niina Suominen’s Golden Headacher selected for Fronteira Festival, Brazil
Niina Suominen’s Golden Headacher (2022) was picked for the official selection of Fronteira Festival, held from August 29 – September 3 2023. Fronteira Festival is focused on experimental and documentary films. Golden Headacher is an experimental animation documentary about women’s hate and… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur screened in Czech Republic and Poland
Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur (2022) is screened at the 49. Summer Film School Uherské Hradiště, held from July 28 – August 3 2023 in Czech Republic, and at Octopus Film Festival, held from August 8–13 2023 in Gdansk, Poland. The selections… Read more »
Elian Mikkola’s Man Made screened at Festival Silhouette, Paris
Elian Mikkola’s Man Made (2022) was selected for the Competition Hybride at Festival Silhouette, held from August 25 – September 2 2023 in Paris, France. Man Made will be screened on Saturday, August 26, at 15:15 in Parc de la… Read more »
Pink Twins’ and Arttu Nieminen’s short films compete at Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival
Pink Twins’ The Transient (2023, in featured image) and Arttu Nieminen’s Lift Up Your Voices (2023) will be screened at NEMAF – Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival, held from August 10–22 2023 in South Korea. Both films will… Read more »
Niina Suominen’s Golden Headacher screened at Animist Tallinn International Animation Film Festival
Niina Suominen’s Golden Headacher (2022) will be screened at Animist Tallinn International Animation Film Festival, held from August 16–19 2023 in Estonia. Golden Headacher is included in the screening “Animadoc NOT MY PROBLEM” on Friday, August 18 in Kinomaja. Golden… Read more »
August Joensalo’s, Niina Suominen’s, and Jenni Toikka’s short films screened at Minikino Film Week, Bali
August Joensalo’s Space Is Quite a Lot of Things (2021, in featured image), Niina Suominen’s Golden Headacher (2022), and Jenni Toikka’s Prelude Op. 28 No. 2 (2022) were picked for the official selection of Minikino Film Week – Bali International… Read more »
Minna Rainio’s and Mark Roberts’ To Teach a Bird to Fly screened at dotdotdot Open Air Kurzfilmfestival, Vienna
Minna Rainio’s and Mark Roberts’ To Teach a Bird to Fly (2020) will be screened at dotdotdot Open Air Kurzfilmfestival, held from July 30 – August 31 2023 in Volkskundemuseum, Vienna, Austria. The screening of To Teach a Bird to… Read more »
Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s Those Who Kept the Light (Seaweed) screened in the international competition of Lago Film Fest
Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s Those Who Kept the Light (Seaweed) (2022) had its international premiere in the international competition of Lago Film Fest, held from July 21–29 2023 in Revine Lago, Italy. Those Who Kept the Light (Seaweed) is part of… Read more »
Special Mention for Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur at Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival
Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur was awarded with Special Mention at Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival, held from June 19–24 2023 in Slovenia. The special mention was awarded by the European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation Méliès, which stated: “This film… Read more »
Meet the Artist – Artor Jesus Inkerö
Known for their performative bodily project, Artor Jesus Inkerö has worked with multiple art forms: video art, performances, installations, drawing and text work. The active artist is constantly trying new things and producing new material. We talk about linguistics, sense… Read more »