Insects plague the botanical garden. The gardeners need to use increasingly harsh methods to cope with the situation. The more they try to get rid of the intruders, the worse the problem becomes.
Read more »Milja Viita & Veli Rämö’s The King (featured image) and Paula Lehtonen’s Guests of Honor were selected for the Official Selection of Minikino Film Week – Bali International Short Film Festival, held from September 11–20, 2024 in Bali, Indonesia. Milja… Read more »
A cosmic odyssey of consciousness in a post-human Beirut. It follows two souls trapped in an underground purgatory, blaring the lines between reality and nightmare.
Read more »Jan Ijäs’ Two Wars has received a Special Mention at IndieLisboa International Film Festival taking place May 23–June 2, 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal. Read the Jury Statement here. Two Wars (2024) is a work of thought, imagination, presentation and narrative… Read more »
A film commissioned by the Helsinki Psychogeographical Society in the summer 1995. Images and music: Anton Nikkilä.
Read more »Why are there almost 100 near-identical bridges across the 179 km motorway from Helsinki to Tampere? I never found out, but during one day in 1995 I photographed most of them and combined them with my music in which I sampled sounds of ventilation holes and electric street cabinets in Helsinki.
Read more »Sara Pathirane: Leda & Friends (2023) Discover AV-arkki’s latest acquisitions for our online archive below. For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Memories, dreams, and family ties Minna Suoniemi: Mothering (2024) In Mothering, an adult daughter carries her mother… Read more »
Everyday life. Oh joy?
Read more »The artist sits on the trunk of a reclining pine tree and tells the tree about her current concerns. The work consists of twelve conversations the artist had with a pine in 2022 in Kaivopuisto Park, Helsinki. The conversations can also be viewed separately.
Read more »It's Midsummer night and adults do what they do, leaving their children without protection. Childhood memories collide with a picture of the present which is broken – the clouds do not bring comfort. The work deals with the feeling of (un)safety from a child's perspective.
Read more »The poetic media art animation shows a shadow of a small tree sapling, magically growing and evolving as the light travels during the day, from dawn to dusk. The background theme of the work is the arc of life: a day begins, a day ends, and something small but miraculous might happen in between.
Read more »The poetic media art animation shows a shadow of a small tree sapling, magically growing and evolving as the light travels during the day, from dawn to dusk. The background theme of the work is the arc of life: a day begins, a day ends, and something small but miraculous might happen in between.
Read more »After IFF Rotterdam and Hot Docs, Samira Elagoz’s and Z Walsh’s You can’t get what you want but you can get me (2024) continues its festival tour. The film will be screened at Seattle International Film Festival on 11 May… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur (2022) will be screened at the 17th International Documentary Film Festival Beldocs, taking place from 22–29 May 2024 in Belgrade, Serbia. Le Saboteur is included in the “Fireworks” selection. The screening takes place on Thursday, 26… Read more »
Jussi Eerola’s Grasshopper (2023) is included in the screening at Gran Lux art space, Saint-Etienne, France. The screening takes place on 10 May 2024. Grasshopper is a minimalistic musical. Night falls down on empty business premises – and lights go… Read more »
Following the transition of our longtime Programme Coordinator, Tytti Rantanen, to the position of executive director of Espoo Ciné film festival, Avreno Heikka has taken on the role of Programme Coordinator at AV-arkki. Avreno Heikka has prior experience in both… Read more »
Several of AV-arkki’s artists are having an exhibition abroad at the moment. Here are some of them: Liinu Grönlund’s and Okku Nuutilainen’s Observe These Words (2020, in featured image) is included in the group exhibition “The Next Renaissance“, opening in… Read more »
Four media art works by AV-arkki’s artists were selected for the special programme “Techno(s)cene“, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Athens Digital Arts Festival, held in Greece from 16–26 May 2024. The programme includes Pink Twins’ The Transient (2023, in… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s Two Wars (2024, in featured image) and Elli Vuorinen’s Flower Show (2024) were selected for competitive programmes of IndieLisboa film festival, held from 23 May to 2 June 2024 in Lisboa, Portugal. Two Wars will be screened in… Read more »
Kristina Laine’s and Albert Laine’s Memories in the Clouds (2023) was selected for the international competition of Melbourne International Animation Festival, held from 5–12 May 2024 in Australia. Memories in the Clouds is included in the international competition programme 1,… Read more »
August Joensalo’s The Rootless (2024, in featured image) and Azar Saiyar’s Solar Book (2024) will be screened at the International Ethnographic Film Festival Québec (FIFEQ), held in Montréal from May 7–11 2024. Both films are included in a short film… Read more »
An abstract video artwork that explores the logic of the subconscious and the emergence of ideas.
Read more »Acting Screensaver (for Mac) is a dance performance in which an actor imitates the classic screen saver Flurry by Apple. The video can be set as a screensaver.
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