Niina Suominen’s What Time Is? (2020) continues its world tour in July. The experimental animated short film is included in the programmes of both Fest Anča and Melbourne International Animation Festivals. Fest Anča is held online from July 1–11. Suominen’s… Read more »
Petition for the future of AVEK
Link for the Finnish version here The insecurities in the funding status of AVEK (The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture) has made Finnish creators and producers of audiovisual art extremely concerned. The Finnish audiovisual culture is tightly attached to the… Read more »
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic won the main prize of the experimental film LABO competition of Prague Shorts
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic (2020) was awarded as the Best Film LABO in the experimental competition of Prague Shorts, held as a hybrid festival from June 2–27 2021. The jury states: “A jury of representatives from the domestic art… Read more »
Tuomas A. Laitinen’s Haemocyanin in the screening “Queer Ecology” in Bremen
Tuomas A. Laitinen’s Haemocyanin (2019) will be screened in the programme “Queer Ecology” on Wednesday, June 23, in Kukoon im Park, Bremen, Germany. The screening is curated and presented by Christine Rüffert. Haemocyanin is based on a strand of artworks… Read more »
Finnish media art at Chronotop Festival, Vyborg
CYLAND MediaArtLab presents a video art exhibition and screenings as a part of the Chronotop Summer Festival in Vyborg, Russia, held from June 25 – September 25. The programme includes several works from Finnish artists. The exhibition takes place in… Read more »
Maija Tammi’s The Problem of the Hydra won the Audience Award in the New Point of View competition of THIS IS SHORT online festival
Maija Tammi’s The Problem of the Hydra was awarded with the Audience Award in the New Point of View competition of THIS IS SHORT online festival. From April 1 to June 30, the online festival THIS IS SHORT thrilled audiences… Read more »
Blue Honda Civic awarded at Short Waves Festival
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic (2020) was awarded with the third prize in the international competition of Short Waves Festival, held from June 14–20 in Poznań, Poland. The jury gave the award to Eerola’s short film for “taking the viewer… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic awarded with the first prize in the documentary short film competition of Ciné de Huesca
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) was awarded with the first prize “Danzante” in the documentary short film competition of Ciné de Huesca, held from June 11–19 in Huesca, Spain. The award is worth 5000 € and a trophy. The award… Read more »
Jenni and Lauri Luhta’s new feature-length film Deluge screened at Buzz Vicious Underground Film Festival, Brazil
Jenni and Lauri Luhta’s new feature-length film Deluge (2020) will be screened at Buzz Vicious Underground Film Festival, held in Amazonas, Brazil in July 2021. Syndafloden (The Deluge) is the first joint full-length film by Jenni and Lauri Luhta. The work… Read more »
Jussi Eerola’s and Jan Ijäs’ films in competition at Short Waves Festival
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic (2020) and Jan Ijäs’ Absolute Street (2019) have been chosen to be screened at Short Waves Festival in Poland. Short Waves is held June 14 – 20 in Poznań, Poland, and online. Blue Honda Civic (shown… Read more »
Anni Puolakka’s Diamond Belly screened at Frauen Film Fest
Anni Puolakka’s Diamond Belly (2018) has been chosen to be screened at Frauen Film Fest in Germany. IFFF is held in Dortmund and online from June 15 – 20. The film has been chosen to be screened as part of… 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 2021-2022, deadline Saturday, July 31! For the catalogue, we are looking for primarily single channel works that will be released in 2021 or 2022. The works… Read more »
Sari Nordman’s new installation Tower at New Dance Alliance Performance Mix Festival, New York
Sari Nordman is exhibiting her Tower installation as part of the New Dance Alliance Performance Mix Festival at Movement Research on June 10-13 2021 in New York. The project is also included in the programme of Jamaica Flux, organised by Jamaica Center… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for the Scene screened La Boîte carrée touring festival in France and Portugal during the summer
Jonna Kina’s short film Arr. for a Scene (2017) is included in the summer programme of La Boîte carrée, a touring festival that travels around France and Portugal during the summer from June to September. See full schedule here. Awarded… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic screened in Spain and South Korea
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) has been chosen to be screened at Cine de Huesca in Huesca, Spain, and Pyeongchang International Peace Film Festival, in Pyeongchang, South Korea. At Cine de Huesca, the film is part of the International Short… Read more »
Minna Långström’s The Other Side of Mars and Mika Taanila’s Patent Nr. 314805 screened in Paris
Minna Långström’s The Other Side of Mars (2019) and Mika Taanila’s Patent No. 314805 (2020) will be screened in the IF Screening N°25 at Institut Finlandais in Paris, France. The screening will take place on Thursday, June 10 at 20:00… Read more »
Nina Lassila’s videos in the group exhibition S_HE DEVIL 12 in Rome
Two videos by Nina Lassila are in included in a group exhibition S_HE DEVIL 12, presented from June 8–13 as a collaboration between Studio Stefania Miscetti and MAXXI, the National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome. The videos are Woman… Read more »
Café Helsinki by Jaakko Pallasvuo & Anni Puolakka screened at Onion City Experimental Film + Video Festival
Jaakko Pallasvuo’s and Anni Puolakka’s short film Café Helsinki will be screened at Onion City Experimental Film + Video Festival, held from June 9–13 2021. Café Helsinki is included in the screening “Mass Extinction Psychodrama“, screened on Wednesday, June 9…. Read more »
Jonna Kina’s After Life followed by Red Impasto Jar to have its World Premiere at Berlinale Summer Special
Jonna Kina’s new diptych short film After Life followed by Red Impasto Jar (2021) will have its World Premiere in front of the live audience at Berlinale Summer Special screenings, held from June 9–20. After Life followed by Red Impasto… Read more »
Europe - Europa
Salla Tykkä
New work
Europe is a cinematographical study on the power and position of the auteur. It reveals how the means we use for describing and documenting the world simultaneously contribute to its change and reconstruction.
Read more »In-Between
Anna Nykyri
New work
A collage-like short film composed of photographs and moving image combines details and fragments of bodies moving in half-empty urban spaces. In-Between suggests that, while movement and touch are being restricted, we are living an emotional collective experience. Isolated, we grief collectively the world that... Read more »
After Life followed by Red Impasto Jar
Jonna Kina
New work
The work is composed of two separate films followed by each other. Both films explore transcendental issues through archaeological and illegal excavations of tombs.
Read more »Anssi Kasitonni’s Masa and Maija Tammi’s The Problem of the Hydra at THIS IS SHORT online short film festival in June
Anssi Kasitonni’s Masa (2009, in featured image) and Maija Tammi’s The Problem of the Hydra (2020) will be streamed at THIS IS SHORT online short film festival in June. THIS IS SHORT is a collaborative project by the European Short… Read more »
Juha van Ingen’s Web Safe in the Centre Pompidou’s Online Exhibition of Digital Art
Juha van Ingen’s Web Safe (1999–2000) is included in the online exhibition of digital art by Centre Pompidou. “Sans objet. 9 abstract works made for the web browser” is on view until November 19 2021. The online exhibit groups 9 creations,… Read more »
At the Water's Edges
Rita Jokiranta
New work
At the Water’s Edges is a multichannel video installation about rising seas, the climate change and a big city. The work employs New York City as an example—due to its long and shallow shoreline, the city is very vulnerable to storms and flooding. The structure of the work is episodic and controlled by random... Read more »
The Devils of Paasselkä
Axel Straschnoy
New work
The Devils of Paasselkä is a film about our relationship with the unknown. For more than three hundred years, mysterious lights have appeared floating over a lake sitting on a meteorite crater. Witnesses of the lights share their experiences while two men set out to find them.
Read more »Mika Taanila’s Patent No. 314805 screened at Flatpack Festival, San Francisco Documentary FF, and New Jersey IFF
Mika Taanila’s experimental short film Patent No. 314805 (2020) will be streamed at Flatpack Festival, held online from May 21–31. The film is included in the Optical Sound short film programme, available from May 27. In June, Taanila’s film will… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic screened in Winterthur and Ascona as ISFF Winterthur reaches local cinemas
International Short Film Festival Winterthur, held online in November 2020, is taking its programme to local cinemas in front of the live audience in May and June. Among other shorts in the official competition programmes, Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic is… Read more »
Short films by Niina Suominen, Milja Viita, and Mika Taanila in the competition at Regensburg International Short Film Week
Niina Suominen’s What Time Is? (2020), Milja Viita’s When We Are Nothing Left (2019), and Mika Taanila’s Patent No. 314805 (2020) were selected for the international competition of Regensburg International Short Film Week, held online from May 21 – June… Read more »
Short films by Elina Oikari and Azar Saiyar streamed at International Ethnographic Film Festival of Québec
Short films by Elina Oikari and Azar Saiyar will be streamed in the official selection of International Ethnographic Film Festival Québec (FIFEQ). Elina Oikari’s Govadas (2018) will be streamed in the Québec edition from May 20 – June 6 while… Read more »