Mika Taanila’s The World (2017) will have its UK premiere at Flatpack Film Festival, Birmingham. The 11th edition of the festival is held form April 4–9. The World is included in the programme Aural Aesthetics, screened on Sunday, April 9… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 2 Wreck competes at Go Short International Short FF Nijmegen
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 2 Wreck competes in the international competition of Go Short International Short Film Festival. Held in Nijmegen, Netherlands, from April 5–9, the festival is the main short film festival in Netherlands. Waste no. 2 Wreck has… Read more »
Workshop on online communication for art professionals May 24th
In May AV-arkki and Frame are hosting two art media experts; Steph Kretowicz from AQNB and Caroline Heron from Video in Common in London. They will hold a workshop on the 24th May at Frame’s office. In the workshop Kretowicz… Read more »
Branches
Mika Taanila
New work
Woody observation case in Helsinki through an early 1950s newsreel footage. Four locations in shots, accompanied by four tape loops and four locked-groove vinyls. An anaglyph 3D film.
Read more »Delay of Game
Mika Taanila
New work
Nocturnal outdoor ice-hockey match revisited. On Thursday, January 14th, 1954 the weather in Helsinki was mild, only minus two degrees Celcius. Finnish National Team vs. Wembley Lions (UK) in an anaglyph 3D film.
Read more »Experimental shorts from Finland in the competition of Oberhausen Short FF
Oberhausen Short Film Festival has unveiled its International Competition selections. Held from May 11–16, the festival is one of the oldest short film festivals in the world. Experimental short films by AV-arkki’s member artists were selected in the International Competition…. Read more »
Beautiful Confusion
Miia Rinne
New work
"Beautiful Confusion" is about the nature of things, the law of nature… and carrier pigeons. "Beautiful Confusion" is the fourth episode in a film series where each new work is hand painted as a new layer on an earlier work. This series resembles a human body, carrying experiences from all the years past. Hand... Read more »
Salla Tykkä’s Retrospective and Mika Taanila’s Tectonic Plate at FIFA, Québéc
Salla Tykkä’s Retrospective (2016) and Mika Taanila’s Tectonic Plate (2016) are screened at International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) in Québec, Canada. The festival is held from March 23 to April 2. Premiered in the international competition of Oberhausen… Read more »
Mika Taanila’s Tectonic Plate at Rencontres internationales, Paris .
Mika Taanila’s Tectonic Plate is screened at Rencontres internationales Paris, held from March 15–19 in La gaîté lyrique art space. Mika Taanila will be present in the screening on Sunday, March 19 at 14:00. Premiered in Forum Expanded at Berlinale… Read more »
Mika Taanila’s The World at CPH:DOX
Mika Taanila’s short film The World is screened in Project X screening at CPH:DOX, held in Copenhagen from March 16–23. CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, is the third largest documentary film festival in the world. Mika Taanila‘s and Jussi Eerola’s… Read more »
What Is Community?
Erkka Nissinen
New work
In the animation Erkka Nissinen draws himself into an imaginary community and explores the boundaries of its existence.
Read more »Novelties and cult classics: experimental films at Tampere Film Festival
AV-arkki has a strong presence at the 47th Tampere Film Festival. Held between March 8 and 12, Tampere Film Festival is the oldest short film festival in Northern Europe. The internationally distinguished event is AV-arkki’s main associate in Finland. The national competition… Read more »
Sad Song of the Hard-Edge Transition Wipe Markers
Mika Taanila
New work
Early 1950s newsreel laboratory marker films used for indicating effects like wipes, dissolves and fade-outs in the work print, now freed from their utilitarian practice.
Read more »Milja Viita’s Q and Minna Suoniemi’s Horizontal Dance compete at Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand
Milja Viita’s Q (2016) and Minna Suoniemi’s Horizontal Dance (2016) are selected in the international competition of Videoformes festival, held from March 15–18 in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Q will be screened in programme #2 on Thursday, March 16 at 14:00. Programme… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Finnish Midsummer 2169 at Bunter Hund International Short FF
Anssi Kasitonni’s Finnish Midsummer 2169 (2016) will be screened at the 18th Bunter Hund International Short Film Festival, held from March 9–12 in Munich. Finnish Midsummer 2169 is a small love story. In the year of 2169 there will be… Read more »
Milja Viita’s Q competes at Tricky Women International Animation Filmfestival
Milja Viita’s Q is selected in the international competition of Tricky Women International Animation Filmfestival, held in Vienna, Austria, from March 15–19. Milja Viita’s Q is a conceptual film about forces that change the world. The artist’s firstborn son transformed, in… Read more »
Johanna Lecklin’s Maybe You Can Even Sense… awarded at Fokus Video Festival, Denmark
Johanna Lecklin’s Maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there (2016) won the second prize (EUR 500) at FOKUS, an annual video art festival hosted by Nikolaj Kunsthal. From February 9 to March 9,… Read more »
Johanna Lecklin’s latest video at FOKUS Video Art Festival, Denmark
Johanna Lecklin’s Maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there (2016) is included in the programme of FOKUS, an annual video art festival hosted by Nikolaj Kunsthal. From February 9 to March 9,… Read more »
Works by IC-98, Maarit Suomi-Väänänen, Ewa Górzna & Katarzyna Miron at PyeongChang Biennale
The World Wide Video programme at PyeongChang Biennale, South Korea, features three works from AV-arkki’s distribution. IC-98’s Theses on the Body Politic (Colony) (2010), Maarit Suomi-Väänänen’s Log Head (2015) and Ewa Górzna’s & Katarzyna Miron’s Encounter (2016) are installed in… Read more »
Solace
Timo Wright
New work
Solace is an experimental short film about the necessity of grief, an ode to sadness. The film comprises of different people crying in front of the camera. No explanation for their sorrow is given. Through this shared experience the viewers can have a cathartic moment that cleans them from any sorrow they might be carrying... Read more »
Fragmented Landscape
The starting point of Fragmented Landscape is the traditional landscape photo. In the video, the viewer dives through a 3D landscape with a virtual camera. The... Read more »
NAPOLI film
Seppo Renvall
New work
An experimental dreamlike documentary film about Napoli, an homage to the tradition of city symphonies. Live cinema version available.
Read more »In the Vast Ocean of Air
Hanna Husberg
New work
Paying particular attention to the materiality of clouds, and to the transmissions and transformations they perform, be they physical, biological, chemical, digital or other, the film reflects upon some of the material exchanges taking place throughout the atmosphere.
Read more »Sacre 2: HEX
Anni Puolakka Jaakko Pallasvuo
New work
Sacre 2: HEX is the second part of The Sacre Trilogy by Anni Puolakka and Jaakko Pallasvuo. The solemn cybergoth dance enthusiast introduced in the first part of the trilogy (Sacre, 2015) has graduated into a smug Wiccan vlogger. Her formerly know-it-all brother has fallen on hard times and now needs her help. Family... Read more »
Parousia
Marika Orenius
New work
Many universes meet in this video installation - people are travelling, working, moving. As they move from place to place, the one becomes the other. Some children are playing, others just hang around. For a moment both the camera's movement and the people stop. Click! The moment is recorded on camera. At the same time,... Read more »
Saara Ekström’s Domestic Nature Morte installed in Kadriorg Art Museum, Tallinn
Saara Ekström’s Domestic Nature Morte (2004) is installed in the exhibition “Abundance and Ephemerality. Still Lifes from Finnish and Baltic Collections” in Kadriorg Art Museum, Tallinn, from January 21 to May 14. Saara Ekström gives an artist talk about her… Read more »
Johanna Lecklin’s The Cage competes at International Children’s FF Bangladesh
Johanna Lecklin’s The Cage (2015) is screened in the international competition of 10th International Children’s Film Festival Bangladesh, held from January 24–30. The Cage deals with a memory of a horrible childhood experience. A woman tells about a childhood bullying incident… Read more »
Nocturnal Butterfly
Annika Dahlsten
New work
Memento mori - remember that you must die. The journey of a butterfly becomes a melancholic metaphor of a human life, lost in an unknown world.
Read more »The World
Mika Taanila
New work
The Man Who Fell to Earth (dir. Nicolas Roeg 1976) evacuated and flipped. In abandoned landscapes, animals, furniture and empty vehicles are left awaiting for disaster. ”We must have died alone, a long long time ago.” (D.B.)
Read more »Laura Horelli’s and Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s latest works at Forum Expanded, Berlinale
Laura Horelli’s Jokinen and Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s Studies on the Ecology of Drama have their world festival premiere in the ambitious Forum Expanded programme of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale). The festival is held from February 9–19. Forum Expanded… Read more »