A poetic film about memories, letting go, destruction, and hope. A home, an abandoned house with its belongings, and an old forest serve as the backdrop for a woman's poetic monologue, where personal and universal memories intertwine with the echoes of war and environmental destruction.
Read more »Image: M-Cult, Tani Simberg 2025 The Finnish Arts and Culture Agency awarded €70,000 in funding to the Finnish Media Art Networks collaboration project. The project will be carried out by AV-arkki, M-Cult, and the Finnish Light Art Society FLASH in… Read more »
Expeditions (to Places That Don’t Exist) is a video work that engages with seeing, reality, and utopias. It asks what is true and what may be constructed by our perception. At the same time, the work raises the question of what we can truly know about the world.
Read more »A story about money, power, exploitation and many possible ends to the world. Some people yearn for Mars, others for Heaven. Some dance the humppa on the Moon. In this short, tragicomic play, each of us has our own little part.
Read more »Several of AV-arkki’s artists’ films will be featured in the programme of the 12th edition of Nofilter Kino Film Festival, taking place from March 28–April 24, 2026 across various cities in Europe, including Helsinki. The programme Solo Soul Sauna presents… Read more »
Maija Blåfield‘s film The Fantastic will be screened as part of a short film programme Age of Disinformation at the 18th Go Short Nijmegen. This film programme takes a closer look at the ongoing stream of disinformation, from state-controlled media… Read more »
The video work Absent Referent explores the ways humans and nonhuman animals interact in a specific scientific setting, and how images of violence and care are being looked at and talked about by a variety of people. Some people turn their heads away and some watch without a blink.
Read more »Karuizawa (Happy Birthday John) is a short film about an attempt to meet John Lennon in Japan. The soundtrack features a partly AI-generated phone conversation between one of the filmmakers and John Lennon. They discuss their secret love affair and arrange a meeting in Karuizawa.
Read more »Noora Geagea’s Life Goals will be screened as part of the Le Printemps du Film Engagé festival. The festival takes place in movie theaters and community venues, offering screenings followed by discussions with the audience in order to broaden perspectives on… Read more »
Salla Tykkä‘s film Lasso (2000) will be screened in a short film programme titled The Fall Was Hard, but I Love the Taste of Pavement on My Tongue curated by Max Ferguson. The screening is part of the multidisciplinary arts… Read more »
Milja Viita‘s experimental documentary Seafarers has been selected for The International Documentary Film Festival ArtDocFest/Riga (IDFF ArtDocFest/Riga), taking place from February 28th to March 9th, 2026 in Riga, Latvia. The film is featured in the Baltic Focus programme, which presents… Read more »
It's Monday. A man wakes up. A journalist wants to hear the truth.
Read more »Red painted lips move on the glass, drawing a pattern.
Read more »A celebration of neurodiversity. Scattered stimuli dissolve thought into noise—yet within the chaos, a new order emerges as perception shifts into a bodily experience of rhythm and movement, image and sound. What first appears senseless leaves behind traces that may, after all, hold meaning.
Read more »For Valentine’s Day (or Friendship Day, as it’s called in Finland) AV-arkki invites you to experience an evening of moving images at the former Harju Morgue in Dallapé Park. AV-arkki is excited to host the first Helsinki edition of Open… Read more »
What if psilocybin mushrooms were give to newborns to disrupt transgenerational heteronormativity?
Read more »I met a girl in the toilet of a bar... She said I looked nice and we went together to the smoking area where neither of us smoked, we just stroked each other's hair... The night went on and we danced, giggled and held hands until it abruptly ended with her saying that she has a boyfriend and has to leave.
Read more »A Puuilo hickey is a scrape or a wound that forms on the shoulder as a result of too many purchases from Puuilo hardware store. In Puuilo Hickey two characters, Domina and Witch, spend time in Puuilo. They pull meter chain, touch screws priced by the kilo and fly with a broom, among other things.
Read more »Anna Antsalo & Jenni-Elina von Bagh‘s film Everything Is Right Before was awarded the Best Film in the Multiplié Dance Film Nordic Competition at the Minimalen Short Film Festival. The festival took place January 13–18, 2026 in Trondheim, Norway. In… Read more »
Elina Saloranta‘s film A Letter from Elli (2019) is part of DINAMO’s short film screening programme Exposure/Obscurity at the upcoming International Film Festival Rotterdam. The video is based on a letter written by the Finnish singer Elli Forssell-Rozentāle in August… Read more »
Marja Viitahuhta & Ánnámáret‘s Vuoiŋŋat (Spirits) (featured image) won the Best Nordic Art Film award and Elli Vuorinen‘s Flower Show the Best Nordic Animation at the Minimalen Short Film Festival. The festival took place January 13–18, 2026 in Trondheim, Norway…. Read more »
A story of the grief surrounding a mother’s death, memories of loss, and the joy of summer cabin life, drawn from 8 mm home movies filmed by three generations.
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