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 »
Featured image: Jade Kallio: Ocean Blvd Our catalogue offers a diverse portrait of recent single channel art works by artists and filmmakers based in Finland. AV-arkki’s Distribution catalogue 2024–2025 is intended for professional preview. The catalogue is distributed via AV-arkki’s… Read more »
The work is part of the New Pangaea project, which explores the relationship between humans and plants on the island of Seili. Fishermen were the first people on Seili. Plant seeds were already carried with them to the island. The plants in the video have arrived on Seili with the help of humans.
Read more »Diana Soria Hernandez: Keep On Trying (2012) The fall season of AV-arkki and Cinema Orion’s “Art for Art’s Sake” screening, event and discussion series kicks off on October 8, 2024 with the theme “Touch me”. The first event titled “Bodily… Read more »
Salla Tykkä’s Giant is included in the screening and performance series The Game is Not the Thing: Sport and the Moving Image at the Walker Art Center, running from October 11–November 8, 2024 in Minneapolis, USA. Spanning 13 decades of filmmaking,… Read more »
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth will be on view as part of Encontros da Imagem – International Photography and Visual Arts Festival held from September 20—November 3, 2024 in Braga, Portugal. Birds in the Earth (2018) is a short… Read more »
New Pangaea explores the relationship between humans and plants on the island of Seili, presenting 20 plant species and their distribution patterns. The audio material was collected on Seili, either with microphones or by transforming the electrical conductivity of the plants into sounds audible to the human ear.
Read more »Hanna Hovitie’s film Square The Circle will be screened at Videomedeja, held from October 10–12, 2024 in Novi Sad, Serbia. Videomedeja is an international festival of new media that engages with important social and political themes through video art, installations,… Read more »
An animation of the ocean’s bones, the joints of the waves, humankind and dark waters.
Read more »Vappu Rossi’s installation Generatio spontanea will be on view at Aarhus Festival, held from August 30–September 8, 2024 in Aarhus, Denmark. Vappu Rossi will be present at the festival as an artist guest. Generatio spontanea (2024) is a poetic media… Read more »
August Joensalo’s film The Rootless will be screened at Concorto Film Festival, held from August 17–24, 2024 in Parco Raggio, Pontenure, Italy. In Rootless (2024) a desire to revive the Karelian heritage, culture and language between a grandfather and grandchild… Read more »
Ville Koskinen’s teeth (featured image) and Azar Saiyar’s Solar Book are selected in the programme of San Francisco Cinematheque’s annual film festival CROSSROADS, held from August 30–September 1, 2024 in San Francisco, US. CROSSROADS celebrates recent (and rediscovered) artist-made film,… Read more »
Closer is a jagged existential animation about how the perspective to life can change. It tells the story of an old artist, broken by his difficult memories. It is an animated short film about closeness, love, acceptance and healing.
Read more »The film consists of three imaginary endings for disaster movies. The ideas have been collected from people in Helsinki, and acted by 100 volunteers. A zombie movie, a dystopian ecocatastrophe and a monster movie are all realized in different styles.
Read more »Anssi Kasitonni’s film Pena’s Special Hauling (2024) will be screened at Murf/Murw festival, held from September 27–29, 2024 in Tilburg, Netherlands. Pena’s Special Hauling (2024) features Pena, who has been driving a semi-truck for 50 years and that’s the way… Read more »
Mika Taanila is this year’s laureate of the Underground Spirit Award at Palić European Film Festival, held from July 20–26, 2024 in Palić, Serbia. The Underground Spirit Award is awarded for outstanding work in the field of independent film and… Read more »
Mika Taanila’s Tectonic Plate is included in the Lost Lost Lost section of New Horizons Film Festival held from July 18–28, 2024 in Wrocław, Poland. The Lost Lost Lost section presents films from previous years that were overlooked in the… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s Scenic View is selected for Braziers International Film Festival held from August 30–September 1, 2024 in Oxfordshire, UK. Scenic View (2023) is a film about how we look at a forest landscape and the reality. Finland has the… Read more »
Our visiting curator Pamela Cohn. We invite all artists working with moving image to submit their new title(s) for AV-arkki’s distribution catalogue 2024-2025. For the catalogue, we are looking for primarily single channel works that are/will be released in 2024… Read more »