Patrik Söderlund’s Realms (2018) was awarded with Night Award at Signes de Nuit Bangkok, held from June 22–30 in Bangkok, Thailand. The Night Award honours films, which are able to balance ambiguity and complexity characterised by enigmatic mysteriousness and subtleness,… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s, Marja Helander’s & Sami van Ingen’s short films in the Scandinavian Film Week, México City
Anssi Kasitonni’s Saladdin Castique (2018), Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth (2018), and Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) will be screened in the short film selection of the Scandinavian Film Week in México City. The Scandinavian Film Week takes place… Read more »
Carolin Koss’s Copper Mountains in the international competition of Edera Film Festival, Italy
Carolin Koss’s Copper Mountains (2018) was selected for the international competition of Edera Film Festival, held for the second time in Treviso, Italy, from July 31 to August 2. During a trip to the small town of Karabash by the… Read more »
Elli Vuorinen’s Still Lives travels the world
Elli Vuorinen’s Still Lives (2019) is screened at various international film festivals during the summer. So far, it has been screened in the international competition for experimental short films at Porto Femme IFF (June 18–22, Portugal); in the competition selection… Read more »
Sami van Ingen’s Flame screened at Rooftop Films short film screening, NYC
Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) is included in the Rooftop Films short film screening “Love Is Short”. The screening takes place on Tuesday, July 23, at 19:00 in The William Vale, Brooklyn. Flame is a fractured melodrama, based on damaged… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Sakke in the international competition of Tabor Film Festival
Anssi Kasitonni’s Sakke (2019) was selected for the international competition of Tabor Film Festival, held from July 11–14 in the Veliki Tabor Castle, Croatia. Sakke is included in the international competition programme 1 “Sounds & Visions“, screened on Thursday, July… Read more »
Roi Vaara’s Artist’s Dilemma in a group exhibition “The Art of Being Good” at Tallinn Art Hall
Roi Vaara’s video Artist’s Dilemman (1997) is included in the group exhibition “The Art of Being Good” at Tallinn Art Hall. The exhibition is open from June 22 to September 1. The exhibition looks at the ethics of making art… Read more »
Sara Pathirane’s A Shipwreck installed on Adelaide Festival Centre’s media screen
Sara Pathirane is one of the featured Video Art + Digital Media screening artists on Adelaide Festival Centre’s media screen in June. Sara Pathirane’s A Shipwreck (2013) depicts a timeless space, where there are no other images, but all the… Read more »
Patrik Söderlund’s Realms in the competition of Signes de Nuit Bangkok
Patrik Söderlund’s Realms (2018) will be screened in the international competition of Signes de Nuit Bangkok, held from June 22–30 in Thailand. The screening of Realms takes place on Saturday, June 29, at 13:00 in Thai Archive. Realms is a… Read more »
Paris Diaries
Elina Oikari
New work
A young and unsuccessful artist tries to find a theme for her short film in Paris. She gets overwhelmed by too many topics and ends up just recording the process. Paris Diaries depicts the challenges of filmmaking in an absurd and spontaneous fashion that interweaves rough interviews and personal exploration. This hybrid of... Read more »
Waste no.4 New York, New York
Jan Ijäs
New work
Waste no. 4 New York, New York revisits the history of the City in twenty minutes through twelve cemeteries and one landfill. The short documentary is the fourth, independent episode from the ten-part Waste series.
Read more »Tell Me
Azar Saiyar
New work
A narrator asks: “Do you know this bird?”. The video quotes both public and private archival images in which birds are in the centre – birds as individual living beings but also as creatures habiting the world and stories created by humans.
Read more »A Poly Love Story
Pinja Valja
New work
A Poly Love Story is a dancerly film that tells a love story from the point of view of polyamorous people. The film is based on scenes of a traditional love story. The different stages of a love affair are depicted using dance, music and dialogue adapted from interviews with polyamorous people. Is love diminished by... Read more »
Untitled (White - Alps)
Salla Tykkä
New work
A travelogue film about looking and the human need to see and understand the world and about the limits of the sensory system as mind penetrates deeper in the matter, time and space.
Read more »We have launched our new website!
We are happy to launch our new website, executed by the Kairo Design Agency. AV-arkki.fi is an online archive and database for Finnish media art. Our new website is more mobile responsive and user-friendly than before! Explore Finnish media art… Read more »
Samuli Alapuranen’s Dog Video 200810 Edit 1 at Hamburg ISFF
Samuli Alapuranen’s Dog Video 200810 Edit 1 (2008) will be screened at the 35th Hamburg International Short Film Festival, held from June 4–10. Alapuranen’s short film is included in the screening “Post Nights – Interlaced Signals” on Sunday, June 9,… Read more »
Sami van Ingen’s Flame selected for Japan Media Arts Festival
Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) was selected for the art section of the Japan Media Arts Festival, on view from June 1–16 in National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan), Tokyo. Flame is a fractured melodrama, based on damaged frames… Read more »
Saara Ekström’s Body All Eyes screened at Edinburgh IFF
Saara Ekström’s Body All Eyes has been selected for the Black Box strand of Edinburgh International Film Festival, held from June 19–30. Inaugurated in 1947, Edinburgh International Film Festival is the world’s longest continually-running film festival. Body All Eyes is… Read more »
Patrik Söderlund’s Realms & Elli Vuorinen’s Still Lives compete at VIS Vienna Shorts
Patrik Söderlund’s Realms (2018) and Elli Vuorinen’s Still Lives (2019) were selected in the competition programmes of VIS Vienna Shorts Festival, held from May 28 to June 2. Still Lives will be screened in the International Competition Animation Avantgarde screening… Read more »
‘New Media & Art Fairs’ Amanda Schmitt in conversation with Anna Mustonen on Friday, June 7, at Helsinki Contemporary
‘New Media & Art Fairs’ Amanda Schmitt in conversation with Anna Mustonen Friday 7th June 2019 / Helsinki Contemporary 4pm–5.30pm The conversation will concentrate on digital art, video in particular, in the context of UNTITLED, ART fair and other international art… Read more »
Hanne Ivars’s Power and Glory trilogy exhibited in Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art
Hanne Ivars’s Power and Glory trilogy (2013–2014) is installed in the exhibition “Image, Silhouette, and Motion“, open in Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, South Korea, from May 23 to June 23. The Power and Glory animations are quite abstract…. Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 2 Wreck screened at Krakow Film Festival
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 2 Wreck (2016) will be screened at Krakow Film Festival, held from May 26 to June 2. The Kraków Film Festival is one of Europe’s oldest events dedicated to documentary, animation and other short film forms. Waste no. 2 Wreck is included in the… Read more »
Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker and Sami van Ingen’s Flame in the international competition of Videoex, Zürich
Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker (2019) and Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) were selected for the international competition of Videoex, Switzerland’s largest festival dedicated to experimental film and video, held in Zürich from May 25 to June 2. The Stroker is included in… Read more »
Video Art Festival Turku esittää Kristoffer Ala-Ketolan, Artor Jesus Inkerön ja Jaakko Pallasvuon teoksia
Video Art Festival Turku (VAFT) ilahduttaa taas 22.–26.5. monipuolisella ohjelmistolla. Festivaalin näytösohjelmaan valikoituivat myös Kristoffer Ala-Ketolan Adapting (2017), Artor Jesus Inkerön Swole (2017) sekä Jaakko Pallasvuon Heterosexual Love Story (2018). Kristoffer Ala-Ketolan Adapting ja Jaakko Pallasvuon Heterosexual Love Story nähdään… Read more »
Jan Ijäksen Absolute Street ja Waste no. 4 New York, New York Forum Boxin Mediaboxissa
Jan Ijäksen kaksi New York -aiheista teosta, Absolute Street ja Waste no. 4 New York, New York nähdään Forum Boxin Mediaboxissa 24.5.–16.6. Mediaboxin näyttely koostuu kahdesta itsenäisestä New Yorkiin sijoittuvasta teoksesta, ensimmäinen teos Absolute Street kertoo kuinka Samuel Beckett etsi… Read more »
Martta Tuomaala’s Under Pressure in the exhibition WOMEN, (BE)COMING II at UGM Studio, Maribor, Slovenia
Martta Tuomaala’s new video Under Pressure (2019) is included in the Wom@rts exhibition Women, (Be)Coming II at UGM Studio, Maribor, Slovenia from April 26 to June 1. The video is collaboration with Sepideh Rahaa. Under Pressure deals with intersectionality and the… Read more »
Pilvi Takala’s Real Snow White and Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene screened in Lofoten Kulturhus
Pilvi Takala’s Real Snow White (2009) and Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene (2017) will be screened in a film programme included in the exhibition “I lag, i mørket“, curated by Torill Østby Haaland. The screening takes place on Saturday, May… Read more »
Sami van Ingen’s Flame awarded with Optical Sound Award at Flatpack Festival
Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) was awarded with Optical Sound Award at Flatpack Festival, held from April 30 to May 6 in Birmingham, UK. The jury, consisting of Jani Lehto (composer and sound designer, Finland) & Bobbie-Jane Gardner (composer and producer,… Read more »
Saara Ekström’s Amplifier screened at De Imagerie, Antwerpen
Saara Ekström’s Amplifier (2017) will be screened in a short film screening at De Imagerie, Antwerpen, Belgium. The screening takes place on Friday, May 24, at 20:30 in Het Bos. Amplifier is an experimental short film. Time inevitably moves from past… Read more »
AV-arkin toimintakertomus 2018 on julkaistu
Lataa AV-arkin 2018 toimintakertomus tästä linkistä. Toiminnanjohtajan katsaus vuoteen 2018 Vuosi 2018 sisälsi mediataiteen keskeisen raportin, Kuvaston jäsenyyden, lisääntynyttä yhteistyötä gallerioiden kanssa, menestystä kansainvälisillä festivaaleilla ja uusia avauksia levitystoiminnassa. Vuonna 2018 levitystoiminnassa ilahdutti erityisesti levittämiemme teosten sijoittuminen aiempaa useammin merkittävien… Read more »