Vesa-Pekka Rannikko‘s experimental animation Rat and Border Dog will be screened at the International New Media Art Festival Videomedeja, held from October 9–11, 2025 in Novi Sad, Serbia. Rat and Border Dog (2024) is a poetic animation fable about the… Read more »
Erkka Nissinen’s Rigid Regime to be screened at the Murf/Murw festival (Oct 3–5, 2025), Tilburg, Netherlands
Erkka Nissinen‘s Rigid Regime will be screened at the Murf/Murw festival, held from October 3–5, 2025 in Tilburg, Netherlands. The festival focuses on experimental theatre, music, visual arts, and film. In Rigid Regime (2012), an armless outsider observer arrives by… Read more »
Minna Suoniemi’s Practical Ecology part of a Special Programme at Konstmuseet i Kungsparken at Nordisk Panorama Film Festival (18–23 Sept, 2025), Malmö, Sweden
Minna Suoniemi’s film Practical Ecology will be screened at Nordisk Panorama Film Festival as part of a screening programme Malmö in the making. Nordisk Panorama is held from 18–23 September, 2025 in Malmö, Sweden. The films in the programme will… Read more »
A Flagellate Searching for Love
Leena Pukki
New work
A Flagellate Searching for Love captures slime mold moving along symbols of love, diagrams of reproductive cells, and signs of gender. Its themes include the search for love, relationships, sex, and reproduction. The film explores the mechanisms of falling in love, as well as love and sexual attraction. It suggests that... Read more »
A Brilliant Trick
Helka Heinonen
New work
How to do a vanishing act backwards? A poetic film about living on the brink of biodiversity loss, growing up, boundaries, and negotiation. It is about imagining new ways of coexistence and listening to one’s surroundings. The work combines live action with stop-motion animation, dialogue, and voiceover.
Read more »On the Third Day
Maija Tammi
New work
On the Third Day is an installation consisting of a large-scale video projection and an intimate animation. In the video, a mass of flower petals moves in a peculiar way, concealing within itself a secret that threatens to be revealed at any moment. In the animation, a cockroach awakens in a cave. It does not know how it... Read more »
Even a Dead Star Can Be a Lighthouse
Maria Ångerman
New work
What might declining oxygen levels bring about at the edge of the Baltic Sea? Informed by symbiosis and the plasticity of aquatic life, the film meditates on the coping mechanisms of submerged organisms as they respond to shifting environmental conditions.
Read more »In the Intimacy of Strangers
Maria Ångerman
New work
Does foam breathe? In the tidal zone of a lagoon, new relationships unfold in the in the wake of a catastrophic event.
Read more »Hulda & Lilli
Maija Tammi
New work
Hulda & Lilli is a large-scale installation that combines photographs, text, and video. Hulda & Lilli are a hungry chameleon carrying eggs and a resilient locust who loves flowers. Their two stories explore human nature and our biases. As a viewer, you must first choose which route to take in the exhibition, as the... Read more »
Milja Viita’s Seafearers (SKÖNÄRIT) competes at Archivio Aperto (Sept 26–30, 2025), Bologna, Italy
Milja Viita‘s experimental documentary Seafearers (SKÖNÄRIT) will compete at Archivio Aperto, taking place in Bologna, Italy from September 26–30, 2025. Archivio Aperto is a festival dedicated to the rediscovery of small-format film heritage — private, amateur, experimental, artist’s cinema —… Read more »
Sophia Ehrnrooth’s 879 Heroes by Heart to be presented as a four-channel installation at the 2025–2026 Coventry Biennial, UK
Sophia Ehrnrooth‘s 879 Heroes by Heart will be presented as a major four-channel moving image installation at the 2025 Coventry Biennial, held from October 3rd, 2025 to January 25th, 2026 in Coventry and Warwickshire, United Kingdom. 879 Heroes by Heart… Read more »
Darker Tones
Jade Kallio
New work
The film takes the form of a road movie — a bleak, fear-tinged coming-of-age story during which the protagonists spiral downward as their internal moral compass disintegrates, ultimately leading them to a kind of self-acceptance: a hazy, entangled creation, like tightly compressed playdough.
Read more »Pretend Sleep
Anikó Kuikka
New work
It all starts like any other nightmare — completely ordinary. In the forest, there is a cottage where trauma lives, and during the night, it moves into Helena’s (Nana Saijets) body, making a nest there. When there is no way to run, the only way to escape is to leave your own body. Autofictional Pretend Sleep... Read more »
Eight films of Pilvi Takala now available on the European streaming platform THIS IS SHORT
The program Public Provocations puts together eight short films by Pilvi Takala, curated by Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen. The program includes the following films: Broad Sense (2011), Drive with Care (2013), Easy Rider (2006), If Your… Read more »
Martta Tuomaala’s Am I Calling You at A Bad Time will premiere at Nordisk Panorama Film Festival 2025, Malmö, Sweden
Martta Tuomaala‘s Am I Calling You at A Bad Time will premiere at Nordisk Panorama Film Festival, held from 18–23 September, 2025 in Malmö Sweden. The film is nominated for the Best Nordic Short Film Award. Nordisk Panorama Film Festival… Read more »
Saara Ekström’s Geopsyche part of the group exhibition Time After Time at The Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland
Saara Ekström‘s work titled Geopsyche is presented as a part of Time After Time, an exhibition featuring five Nordic artists exploring themes like nature, energy, time, light, darkness, as well as and human presence and absence. The works, both above… Read more »
Biodrunk Story 1955-2024
Teuri Haarla
New work
The work progresses through three conceptual stages. The first stage depicts a confrontation with raw and unsettling experiences, described as a "purge" of non-entertaining, disquieting material. The second stage, An Extreme Sense of Void, emphasizes isolation and existential contemplation. In the third stage, the film... Read more »
Lau Rämö’s Anima and Pink Twins’ Firewalk at Filmfest Weiterstadt (Aug 14–18, 2025), Germany
Lau Rämö‘s Anima (featured image) and Pink Twins‘ Firewalk will be screened at the Open-Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, held from August 14th to 18th, 2025 in Weiterstadt, Germany. The film Anima follows the perspective of a primate researching life through books…. Read more »
Eyes Eyes Baby
Vilma Pimenoff
New work
Eyes Eyes Baby is a psychoanalytic makeup tutorial on how to paint eyes in order to see more. This humorous and thought-provoking video piece contemplates the self (image) as both subject and object.
Read more »State of Alert
Pasi Autio
New work
The work depicts a sense of being in a constant state of alert. The natural, relaxing sounds resemble the sounds of emergency vehicles, mixing with urban sounds. Due to the rapid alternation of light and darkness, one cannot be certain what is real, and what is a figment of one's imagination.
Read more »Feeling Defensive (Part 1)
Pilvi Takala
New work
Feeling Defensive emerged from Takala’s experience attending the National Defence Course – an invite-only training organised by the Finnish military to rally support for national defence and foster preparedness for crises and war. Based on a conversation with a fellow course participant, political scientist... Read more »
With the Tarri Pine
Annette Arlander
New work
The work consists of two parts, recorded with an old pine tree on Hailuoto Island on 14 April 2021. The first part, Esteemed Tarri Pine, is a letter written to the pine and recorded as a voice-over, reflecting on the notions of ‘pluriverse’ and ‘pluriversity’. The second part, Tarri Pine, is an... Read more »
The Pine in Nobelparken (with 1-2-3)
Annette Arlander
New work
The artist performs in three different ways with a pine in Nobelparken, Stockholm, over the course of a year (10 January – 22 December 2022), altogether 69 times. In the work, these three performances are edited into three synchronized videos and inserted side by side into an image of the pine.
Read more »Dearest Pine (with text)
Annette Arlander
New work
On 21 February 2021, the artist sits on a twisted pine tree on Örö Island and writes a letter to the tree, wondering at the fog and the silence. The text appears as a crawl at the bottom of the image.
Read more »In the Beginning There Was Cultural Identity
Laura Horelli
New work
"Ombazu yaKouHerero yazikama okuza kororowa". A studio in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Simon Tjimbawe has chosen this location to answer questions sent by a museum in Braunschweig. The museum is exhibiting Chief Kahimemua’s belt, which will be soon given back to Namibia. Kahimemua was an Ovambanderu leader who was executed by... Read more »
Contact
Lau Rämö
New work
Pictures of the sky appear on a phone forgotten outdoors. Nearby, slime trails shimmer in the fading evening light. The animation, unfolding at the pace of a phone conversation, explores crossing paths, multispecies communication, and perception. It is an associative journey into the unknown.
Read more »Decoding Sole-Mates
Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen
New work
A couple living with intellectual disability are testing a Dutch innovation, SentiSocks by Hume, originally designed to detect stress of people with dementia or speech impairment.
Read more »Shubhangi Singh’s Birth of A Grenade and Niina Suominen’s Good Stuff part of LABOCINE’s July 2025 issue Fruitopia
Shubhangi Singh‘s Birth of A Grenade (featured image) and Niina Suominen‘s Good Stuff are part of LABOCINE‘s July issue Fruitopia. In this curated selection of films, the fruit becomes a prism—splitting into themes of innocence and decay, labor and leisure,… Read more »
Mika Taanila’s Failed Emptiness selected to New Horizons International Film Festival, Wrocław, Poland
Mika Taanila‘s film Failed Emptiness (2024) has been selected to New Horizons International Film Festival, taking place from July 17th to 27th, 2025 in Wrocław, Poland. The film will be screened in the section “Lost, Lost, Lost” curated by Agnieszka… Read more »
Submit your new title(s) for our next festival catalogue – this year’s visiting curator is Martin Grennberger
AV-arkki invites all artists working with moving image to submit their new title(s) for AV-arkki’s distribution catalogue 2025-2026. For the catalogue, we are looking for primarily single channel works that are/will be released in 2025 or 2026. The works can… Read more »