The third Art for Art’s Sake screening of the Spring season is titled Above & Under and invites the viewers to consider the human coexistence with other animals and living beings. The title echoes the age-old division between the earth… Read more »
Am I Calling You at A Bad Time?
Martta Tuomaala KENNO FILMI OSK
New work
X is growing up in the 1990s. As a child she makes prank calls and gets her first job in telemarketing as a teenager. Office smells, heavy breathers, and meaningless greetings follow her from one workplace to another. Through archival material and amateur video footage, the narrative reflects X’s actions as a faceless... Read more »
On Butterfly Logic
Inari Sandell
New work
On Butterfly Logic (2024) examines butterflies’ moving patterns, societal norms of neurotypicality, and psychiatric interventions and histories concerning autism. A butterfly’s flying pattern might not make sense to a human observer, but its’ “erratic” logic keeps the creature safe from... Read more »
of the sun, that it exists
Charlotte Clermont
New work
"du soleil, que ça existe" examines the temporalities through which the body forms, stores, and creates what we translate as the real. Focusing on longing, distance, and language, this text-based project explores the expansiveness of both language and landscape, by installing spaciousness in the dialogue and by... Read more »
Danse de la terre
Niina Vatanen
New work
Danse de la terre is a three-channel video installation combining archival footage and Super8 film, exploring the human relationship with time and nature. The work is a tribute to the soil on which we stand, and the plants on which our lives depend.
Read more »Landscape
Alena Tereshko
New work
This work is to comprehend video as painting and solve the problems of relations and subdominance of three-dimensional space using close-up, a mid-distance and a far-distance views. The text is borrowed from a real love letter and becomes an information load corresponding with every view of the image.
Read more »Black & Sea
Alena Tereshko
New work
The idea of creating a performance where I eat myself came to me when I was feeling helpless to change the circumstances. I couldn’t do it in real life, so I decided to draw how it would look. The video expresses my sorrow in a poetic form.
Read more »Shared Dreams
Lasse Vairio
New work
Shared Dreams is an essay film where the protagonist is building or searching for a foundation or a home. The visions of everyday life are juxtaposed with dreams and the camera becomes a travel companion. The film was shot mainly on hand developed black and white 16mm film.
Read more »Anxiety
Müge Yildiz
New work
A journey through an urban maze, where the protagonist searches for the meaning of their existence in the heart of the city. While wandering familiar streets, they find no answers — only one overwhelming emotion: anxiety. It is a part of everyday life, from which escape becomes possible through the poetry of Henri... Read more »
A Trip to the Moon
Müge Yildiz
New work
After a hundred years of George Melies’ A Trip to the Moon, I revisited the idea of space travel. I edited 16mm NASA Apollo Missions footage with archival footage to express my feelings about the human aspect of space travel and life in general.
Read more »Palms
Müge Yildiz
New work
An 8mm film was burned during projection. The remnants of the film found themselves in a digital scanning device instead of garbage. The found pieces, which were transferred to digital media one by one, piece by piece, square by frame, were brought together on the editing table. This found footage has been turned into a new... Read more »
I Was A Ghost Myself
Müge Yildiz
New work
I Was A Ghost Myself is a film following a ghost’s footsteps, psychogeographically trailing through a city where the ancient intertwines with the modern. The ghost haunts this itinerary of places projecting its haunts as light in moving images. As an archaeologist, the ghost portrays the present to uncover the past... Read more »
Non/Living
Müge Yildiz
New work
Non/Living is an exploration that delves into the collaboration between living organisms; Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker's yeasts) and non-living, a ghost archaeologist. The film tries to find an approach between human and nonhuman beings while investigating ecological filmmaking and materialist films. Müge Yıldız... Read more »
Scarves
Maria Ylikoski
New work
Scarves subtly depicts the status of women, and the knowledge and wisdom hidden behind various visible and invisible scarves. The work focuses on the scarves kept by Ester Markkola, Finland's former President Urho Kekkonen's long-time housemaid. Ester recalls the events related to the scarves. She is not visible, only the... Read more »
Invisible
Maria Ylikoski
New work
President Urho Kekkonen’s long-time and devoted maid, Ester, accompanied him on more than 20 state visits. Yet, she appears only fleetingly in two clips preserved in the YLE archives: once in a compilation filmed during the president’s 1965 trip to India, and in footage capturing the president and his wife... Read more »
Territorio (The Border)
Fanni Niemi-Junkola
New work
In the video work Territorio (Raja), based on true events, I explore the ethical stress caused by environmental destruction. The work focuses on the journey of a domesticated animal and a human on a border terrain.
Read more »Jukka Silokunnas’ D/Composition and Rosaliina Paavilainen’s A Beauty Odyssey selected to CosmiX International Experimental Cinema Festival, Paris, France
Jukka Silokunnas’ D/Composition and Rosaliina Paavilainen’s A Beauty Odyssey selected to CosmiX International Experimental Cinema Festival held from May 29-31, 2025 in Paris, France. Jukka Silokunnas’ D/Composition (2025) is a stop motion animation about the last piano sonata – realized… Read more »
Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s works now also distributed by The Inter Media Art (IMAI)
Nastja Säde Rönkkö‘s works are now also distributed by The Inter Media Art Institute (IMAI). Founded in 2006, its archive includes around 3,000 works of artistic and documentary value that offer a broad overview of the evolution of video art… Read more »
Territorio (The Road)
Fanni Niemi-Junkola
New work
In the video work Territorio (The Road), based on true events, I explore the ethical stress caused by environmental destruction. The work presents a vision in which collapse can also mark a new beginning and raises the question of how we might respond to the challenges of repairing and renewing the environment.
Read more »Jade Kallio’s Ocean Blvd competes at International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Jade Kallio’s film Ocean Blvd is selected to compete at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, held from April 29 to May 5, 2025 in Oberhausen, Germany. The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, founded in 1954, is considered the oldest… Read more »
Marja Helander & Liselotte Wajstedt’s short film In My Hand selected to Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (April 24 to May 4, 2025)
Marja Helander & Liselotte Wajstedt‘s short film In My Hand has been selected to Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, taking place from April 24 to May 5, 2025 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival… Read more »
Marjo Levlin’s Underdog to be screened at Experimental Film Festival PROCESS in Riga, Latvia (May 21–25, 2025)
Marjo Levlin‘s experimental documentary Underdog will be screened at Experimental Film Festival PROCESS in Riga, Latvia. The 6th edition of the festival will take place from 21 to 25 May, 2025. The festival is organizedby the artist-run film lab Baltic… Read more »
August Joensalo’s The Rootless selected to the 44th Jean Rouch International Film Festival, Paris, France (May 8-15, 2025)
August Joensalo‘s The Rootless has been selected to be showcased at the 44th Jean Rouch International Film Festival, taking place from May 8-15, 2025 in Paris, France. The Rootless will be screened in the section Prises de parole. Jean Rouch… Read more »
The second Art for Art’s Sake screening of the Spring on May 6th at Cinema Orion
The second Art for Art’s Sake screening of the Spring season continues around the theme of belonging. The films in the screening titled …to this place called earth consider what a sense of belonging means, and how it might persist… Read more »
Levande eller Död – Dead or Alive
Annette Arlander
New work
The artist sits by a pile of pine trunks and addresses them in Swedish, talking about an exercise in which you imagine yourself as dead. Then, she lies down on the pile.
Read more »Revisiting the Pine Again
Annette Arlander
New work
The artist sits in a pine tree and talks to it, recalling her previous visits and a recent exhibition called "Revisit" she recently saw. She thanks the tree for incorporating the place for her. The wind covers the voice, while the talk is visible as subtitles.
Read more »Submit your works for our online archive – deadline May 9th, 2025!
AV-arkki promotes and archives Finnish and Finland-based artists’ moving image works in various forms: single channel, installations, live works and online based art. Our online archive is a versatile library and database of Finnish media art. Several international and domestic… Read more »
At Home
Maippi Ketola
New work
At Home is an experimental short film that transforms a familiar domestic space into a stage for exploration and a struggle against gravity. Through slow-motion movement, the protagonist engages in a delicate dance with physical forces, blurring the line between the mundane and the extraordinary. The atmospheric soundscape,... Read more »
Firewalk
Pink Twins
New work
A pre-apocalyptic midnight walk takes you through a burning forest to witness a looming destruction. A fire in the forest either marks an impending doom, or serves as a metaphysical gateway between realities. With their new short film Firewalk, chaos animators Pink Twins are on a deconstructive streak: as they guide you... Read more »
When Andromeda and Milky Way Embrace
Appu Jasu
New work
A lone airplane flies over a dark landscape. Amid fields of untouched snow, a rover scanning both the ground and the stars is troubled by the history it has been fed. Isolated inside the plane, people struggle to interpret the rover’s increasingly complex messages while attempting to uncover both the past and the... Read more »