A projection of exhaustion. Of extreme thoughts and emotion, of nights, days and hours drawing the room full of grey.
Read more »This State
Taija Goldblatt
New work
Warland
Anna Knappe
New work
Warland is a film about belonging to a place one does not recognize as home. In the film, young Afghan migrants who were born outside Afghanistan, talk about their so-called homeland which they have never seen. For Afghan migrants, the homeland is not only a matter of identity, but also the place where they are forcefully... Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s and Jussi Eerola’s short films selected for the international competition of Kinodot Experimental Film Festival
Azar Saiyar’s Tell Me (2019) and Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic (2020) were selected for the international competition of Kinodot Experimental Film Festival. The 8th edition of the festival will be held online from May 22–26. Each day at 00:00… Read more »
Hanna Arvela’s First Person Shooter in the online short film programme by Uppsala ISFF at Birdie Computer Festival, Sweden
Hanna Arvela’s video First Person Shooter (2015) is included in the online short film programme, presented by Uppsala International Short Film Festival at Birdie Computer Festival, held from May 21–24 in Sweden. In First Person Shooter, the danger provided by… Read more »
The Shadow of the Magician
Marjo Levlin
New work
The short film is a poetic documentary where a deceased magician, The White Sheikh Ben-Ali-Bey, is brought to life through objects found by chance amid junk, pigment and dust in an abandoned poorhouse in the Finnish countryside.
Read more »International Short Film Festival Oberhausen goes online
The competition selections and some parts of other programme of the 66th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen go online from May 13–18. Each screening will be available for 48 hours. You can find the schedule here. Mika Taanila‘s new short… Read more »
Original
Tero Puha
New work
A handsome and cool looking man enters a lush park in Madrid. The peaceful afternoon birdwatching soon turns into a fierce chase among the trees and pathways. The mystery that the man tries to solve makes him question everything.
Read more »Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic selected for the short film competition of the 60th Krakow Film Festival
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic was selected for the international short documentary film competition of the 60th Krakow Film Festival, held online from May 31 to June 7. The Fantastic is a film about encountering the unknown and the relationship between imagination… Read more »
4 Channel Edinburgh
Marko Lampisuo
New work
A family of four is writing a travel diary in Edinburgh, Scotland. The mother wants to network, the father needs some rest, the kids are after play and amusements. All of them end up questioning their journey. In the film, we see the original videos monitored and re-shot until the scenes turn into an abstract play of... Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 6 How Great and Absolute Street selected for IndieLisboa
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 6 How Great (2019) and Absolute Street (2019) have been selected for the IndieLisboa Film Festival, postponed from May to August 25 to September 5. Waste no. 6 How Great was selected for the short film… Read more »
To Teach a Bird to Fly
Mark Roberts Minna Rainio
New work
A woman spends her youth raising the critically endangered Northern Bald Ibis – eventually flying with the birds on their migration journey across the alps. As her story unfolds, a parallel narrative connects her actions with the effects of the climate crisis, offering us a lifeline of hope for a very different... Read more »
New artists’ moving image in our online archive / February – April ’20
Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Jussi Eerola: Blue Honda Civic (2020, 10:45) The romantic landscape paintings often portrayed weather condition, topography of national landscape, religious themes, spirituality of nature… Read more »
Bystanders
Petra Lindholm
New work
Bystanders is an experimental journey, one thing leads to another in a weird subconscious logic, like a dream or a collective memory. A sunrise over and over again, bees singing about their future, yellowing forests, air cooling fans, airport runways, railway platforms, a sea in many colors, a hurricane, electrical wires,... Read more »
400ml of Greenwash
Jukka Silokunnas
New work
400 ml of green spraypaint applied to the wall of a rotten house. Playing with the formal language of graffiti liberates the line from its cultural conventions and poses the question: is painting graffitis smearing, if the surface is itself a pile of trash?
Read more »Magdaleena
Elian Mikkola
New work
As a patient, a captive in her own inner life, Magdaleena succesfully resists her psychiatrist. The confrontation, filmed in split screen, is less an actual case study than a metaphorical story, based on the filmmaker's personal experience of being looked at as the 'other' because they live and perform outside the binary... Read more »
From a Distance
Katarzyna Miron Ewa Gorzna
New work
A short film exploring the ways in which wild animals and humans encounter and coexist in the same habitat. It is an immersive journey through the mysterious, intriguing wilderness and an artistic endeavor to balance the typically human oriented relationship between man and animals by emphasising animal presence and... Read more »
Art as Problematic Waste
Aimo Hyvärinen
New work
There are artists in each city, country - even in each village. There are art collectors, art galleries and art museums as well. We all are tied with the destinies of artworks. This film follows some stories and problems related to artworks
Read more »The Helsinki Tree Calendar
Annette Arlander
New work
The work was recorded in the parks of Helsinki in 2017 and is based on the Celtic lunar calendar with thirteen months named after trees or shrubs. The installation version consists of thirteen videos of equal duration (4 min 40 sec.) to be shown simultaneously, synchronised, nonstop on thirteen screens in a row from left to... Read more »
The Helsinki Tree Calendar
Annette Arlander
New work
The work was recorded in the parks of Helsinki in 2017 and is based on the Celtic lunar calendar with thirteen months named after trees or shrubs. The screening version consists of the beginning of all 13 images or scenes in the calendar, with the initial title, in English, included. The ninth image is recorded vertical and... Read more »
My Father
Niina Lehtonen Braun
New work
Olento Orchestral´s powerful and surreal music video Isäni (“My Father”) is made by Berlin based visual artist Niina Lehtonen Braun. The animated paintings and collages of the video open a distinctive visual world of birds, balloons, potatoes and steaming tea cups – a lot of flowers. The... Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic selected for Hot Docs
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) will have its North American premiere at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival. The festival was scheduled for April 30 to May 10 in Toronto, but due to COVID-19 pandemic, all public screenings will… Read more »
Aura Kanerva Merivuokko
Gun Holmström
New work
The video is a portrait of Aura, a blind trans person who has found a way to express her spirituality among other things through sexuality. From an early age she longed for experiencing true love and this led to very difficult encounters and complicated relationships.
Read more »Mixed Feelings
Miia Rinne
New work
"Mixed Feelings"... Mixed Media, Mixed Tapes. ”Mixed Feelings" is a collage of hand-painted 35mm celluloid film, digital film and screen dumps. "Mixed Feelings" is sedimented as layers on film over time, and a variety of feelings are reflected in the work. The soundtrack consists of P.P. Puska’s music and... Read more »
Meet the Artist: Lauri Ainala
Lauri Ainala is a Finnish video and sound artist, and a musician. Known for his role as a key member of the bands Paavoharju and Harmaa Getto, he has also been releasing new video works, boosted by a two-year working… Read more »
Red Heritage
Carl Sebastian Lindberg
New work
Red Heritage is a documentary film about The Finnish Civil War in 1918 from the perspective of one family. The film tells the story of the artist Carl Sebastian Lindberg’s great-grandfather Antti Meritähti who fought for the Red Guards, as told by Lindberg’s relatives. The fact that Lindberg’s... Read more »
Patent Nr. 314805
Mika Taanila
New work
Finnish engineer Eric Tigerstedt solved the dilemma of sound-on-film already before World War I. All images and sounds are produced from the surviving test materials originally created in 1914.
Read more »Women are fierce in resistance
Marja Viitahuhta
New work
A music video filmed in the refugee camp of Boujdour in Algeria and in the village of Tifariti in Western Sahara, in collaboration with saharawi refugees, who have been living in exile since 1975. The lyrics of the song, composed and sung by Hadijatu Larusi, speak of the importance of listening to women in the society. The... Read more »
Deus Ex Machina
Anssi Kasitonni
New work
The illusion breaks down when the viewer can see the strings.
Read more »Artists’ moving image available online during the COVID-19 pandemic
We gather here links for artists’ moving image (media art, experimental film, short films, documentaries, hybrids, etc.) available online during the COVID-19 pandemic. We update this list regularly. You can send suggestions to teostiedot@av-arkki.fi Artists’ moving image by Finnish artists… Read more »
Several film festivals face cancellation or drastic changes due to the global COVID-19 outbreak
In this new situation, we will do our best to cover our distribution activities and our member artists’ events that go online or will be postponed, and send our thoughts to all events rescheduled or cancelled. Copenhagen International Documentary Film… Read more »