Featured image from Hanna Hovitie: Square the Circle (2023) Discover AV-arkki’s latest acquisitions for our online archive below. For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Saara Ekström: Amnion (2023, 06:50) Landfills on the fringes of cities reveal all about… Read more »
New short fiction films in AV-arkki’s archive / Summer ’23
Featured image from Jussi Eerola: Grasshopper (2023) Discover AV-arkki’s latest acquisitions for our online archive below. For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Jussi Eerola: Grasshopper (2023, 08:57) Night falls down on empty business premises – and lights go… Read more »
New installations, musical, and performative works in AV-arkki’s archive / Summer ’23
Featured image from: Leena Kela: Rest of Time (2021) Discover AV-arkki’s latest acquisitions for our online archive below. For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Performative works Annette Arlander: The Daily Birch (September in Mustarinda) brief (2020, 14:10) The… Read more »
On the other side
Marja Viitahuhta
New work
Nuppi bealde is a yoik in which the spirits of Saivo, the two-bottomed lake, are brought forth. The Sámi musician Ánnámáret's yoik melody first carries the video piece with a soaring treble, but as the piece progresses, it sinks into the depths, accompanied by Ilkka Heinonen's jouhikko (finnish... Read more »
Shelter
Marja Viitahuhta
New work
Aski (Shelter / Suoja) is a video work that deals with the concepts of shelter and belonging. In the video sami musician Ánnámáret holds up a scarf belonging to the national costume of Sámi women, the gákti. It flutters in the air alike a flag. The video repeats a gesture present in... Read more »
Submit your new title(s) for our next festival catalogue
We invite our member artists to submit their new title(s) for AV-arkki’s distribution catalogue 2023-2024, deadline Sunday, July 30! For the catalogue, we are looking for primarily single channel works that will be released in 2023 or 2024. The works… Read more »
Short films by Marja Helander and Pia Andell screened at Finntastic! film festival in Washington D.C.
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth (2017, in featured image) and Pia Andell’s short film Match (2018) are part of the new Finntastic! New Films from Finland film festival. The festival will be held in Washington D.C, on June 7-27… Read more »
Meet the Artist – Minna Suoniemi
“The reason video and photography are so important to me is probably because they both have that special connection to reality”, says Minna Suoniemi, who has made an extensive career as an artist working with both video and photography but… Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s My Home and Pink Twins’ The Transient selected for the international competition of Videoex, Zürich
Azar Saiyar’s My Home (2022, in featured image) and Pink Twins’ The Transient (2023) are screened in the international competition of Videoex International Video & Experimental Film Festival, held in Zürich, Switzerland, from May 25 – June 4 2023. Recently,… Read more »
Scenic View
Maija Blåfield
New work
Finland has the most forest in Europe, but primeval forest has become so rare that it feels fictional. Is it now the enchanted forest? Is a commercial forest real? As nature documentaries are staged, are they fiction? Scenic View is a film about how we look at a forest landscape and the reality.
Read more »Jab
Artor Jesus Inkerö
New work
A person is doing movements that imitate a boxing match. In a dialogue, two persons are wondering about how the person looks in the space and how they are. On top of that, they give guidance to the boxer. The wounds in the video are artificial, created by a make-up artist to resemble wounds from a fight. In the... Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur awarded at BAFICI, Buenos Aires
Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur was awarded with the Jury Special Prize at BAFICI, held from April 19 – May 1 2023 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The film was selected for the avant-garde competition of the festival. In Le Saboteur, an ex-saboteur… Read more »
We Bites Us
KENNO FILMI OSK
New work
Common… Public…Private… Bodily fluids and body parts seem to have life on their own, rebellious, foreign and unwilling. A group wanders through a monstrous shape-shifting reality, in the grey zone in between life and death, the present and the future, the human, cannibal, and cyborg existence.
Read more »Solar Book
Azar Saiyar
New work
What remains and what gets lost, when a thing becomes a museum object? Many details have gone missing, but the museum objects of Satakunta Museum bear a strong presence of waters running next to it: things that the river and the sea have carried, things that were born, that live and once lived because of them and beside... Read more »
Petrified
Minna Parkkinen
New work
In the silent film “Petrified”, beautifully frosted pictures disguise a hidden past of trauma and childhood sexual violence. The Smile Statue, awarded to the kindest children in the class, becomes a symbol of something darker. A hummed melody conveys emotions indescribable by words,... Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s House of the Wickedest Man in the World awarded as the best short film of the Silvestre competition
Jan Ijäs’s House of the Wickedest Man (2023) was awarded with Escola das Artes Silvestre Award for Best Short Film at IndieLisboa, held from April 27 – May 7 2023 in Portugal. The jury states: “Faithful to its topic and made… Read more »
Water Tower Symphony
Panu Johansson
New work
Water Tower Symphony is a tribute to Finnish water towers and the memories associated with them in the form of an experimental film. These slowly disappearing surreal eye-catchers of the local constructed environment deserve to be depicted through art – they deserve a visual symphony of their own.
Read more »Let us Stay for a While
Paula Saraste
New work
Let us Stay for a While is a story about a weekend on a remote island. The protagonists witness a mystical airplane accident and rescue one of the survivors to the island. Inexplicable things start to happen, the protagonists are thrown back to an altered mood and the island doesn’t seem to want them to... Read more »
Lift Up Your Voices
Arttu Nieminen
New work
Voice from the nonplace of an all-embracing algorithm addresses humanity in its last gasps. Punctuated by a song based on a stanza from Emily Dickinson’s poem “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain”, the Voice invites us to break bread and pray together, and to face the deadly consequences of our human desires.... Read more »
An Uncountable Number of Threads
Iona Roisin
New work
Travel films have an established format with their own conventions, history and baggage. It is a medium that has all too often sought to control, define and dictate perceptions of ”other” places. Comprised of footage shot while travelling on group excursions across Russia in 2019, An Uncountable Number of... Read more »
Mox Mäkelä’s Thinking About That awarded at ISFF Oberhausen
Mox Mäkelä’s Thinking About That (2023) was awarded with ZONTA Prize at the 69. International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, held from April 26 – May 1 2023 in Germany. The ZONTA prize, worth 1000 € is distributed for a female filmmaker… Read more »
Jenni Toikka’s and Jan Ijäs’ short films compete at IndieLisboa
Jenni Toikka’s Prelude Op. 28 No. 2 (2022) and Jan Ijäs’ House of the Wickedest Man in the World (2023) were selected for the Silvestre Competition of IndieLisboa, held from April 27 – May 7 2023 in Portugal. In Prelude Op…. Read more »
Meet the Artist – Terike Haapoja
Terike Haapoja is known for her innovative utilization of different technologies in her art. The artist has had solo exhibitions and as Gustafsson & Haapoja duo with her fellow artist Laura Gustafsson all over the world from Faroe Islands to… Read more »
City Reindeer
Kaisu Koski
New work
Rather than a matter of carbon reduction, City Reindeer considers the climate crisis a relationship problem. This series of interspecies vegan picnics aims to begin restoring relationships with the nonhuman, starting with our relative, the Reindeer. The film considers the picnic an interface between culture and... Read more »
We Can Make That Teeth-Gritting Visible
Diego Bruno
New work
We Can Make That Teeth-Gritting Visible weaves together archival images, data, judicial reports, news items, depiction of locations and a collective conversation with a neighbourhood association of El Alto city. What is condemned as an act against law can also turn out to be a space for learning. Thus appears a space... Read more »
AV-arkki’s office is moving to Töölö
AV-arkki’s office is moving from Cable Factory to the Töölö neighbourhood in Helsinki in early June. Our new address is Töölönkatu 11, 00100 Helsinki. We will share the office space with Frame Contemporary Art Finland and the international theatre festival… Read more »
Static
Ilkka Pitkänen
New work
Static is a collaborative art work by visual artist Ilkka Pitkänen and composer, musician Ilari Edelmann. Static depicts the constant state of change in natural phenomena. The name of the work means immobile and unchanging as well as disturbance – especially in a radio or television signal – i.e. the... Read more »
Philemon's Photographs or Through an African Lens
Laura Horelli
New work
The Namibian exiler Philemon Kaluwapa studied photography in East Berlin in the 1980s. The film consists of several narrative strands, including Kaluwapa’s interest in how he could best use the photographic medium to portray Blacks and his experiences in the Cold War—particularly his pivotal decision to flee... Read more »
Contingent Space 1
Leda Vaneva
New work
Contingent Space is a series of virtual collages built up from physical parts. The viewer is guided to explore the environment through a specific route. Entering one of the spaces is similar to entering a dream. It is another layer of reality where the physical is transformed into intangible.
Read more »Minna Rainio’s and Mark Roberts’ To Teach a Bird to Fly screened in Leeds and Londons
Minna Rainio’s and Mark Roberts’ To Teach a Bird to Fly (2020) is included in the programme of In Short, Europe: Awakening short film festival. The screenings of To Teach a Bird to Fly will take place on Saturday, April… Read more »