Hanna Hovitie’s Square the Circle (2023) was awarded at Videoformes International Hybrid and Digital Arts Festival, held from March 14–31 2024 in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Square the Circle won the Mention of Prix Videoformes awarded by the city of Clermont-Ferrand. In… Read more »
Saara Ekström’s Amnion and Hanna Hovitie’s Square the Circle at Akbank Short Film Festival
Saara Ekström’s Amnion (2023, in featured image) and Hanna Hovitie’s Square the Circle (2023) will be screened at the 20th Akbank Short Film Festival, held from March 25 – April 4 2024 in Istanbul, Turkey. Hanna Hovitie’s Square the Circle… Read more »
Impivaara - A New World
IC-98
New work
Brothers escape to the virgin forests of Impivaara to create a new world. An experimental imagining of Finnish national author Aleksis Kivi’s novel Seven Brothers (1870) for the 21st Century, focusing on the energetic basis of a Northern welfare state and a possible future emerging from the climate crisis.
Read more »Panu Johansson’s Water Tower Symphony competes at Ribalta Experimental Film Festival
Panu Johansson’s Water Tower Symphony (2023) was selected for the principal competition of Ribalta Experimental Film Festival, held from March 14–17 2024 in Modena, Italy. The film will be screened on Saturday, March 16, at 11:30 in the screening “METONIMIE,… Read more »
Plenty of artists’ moving image at Tampere Film Festival
Held from March 6–10 2024, Tampere Film Festival is the oldest film festival in Finland and AV-arkki’s main domestic festival partner. This year’s edition contains dozens of short films by AV-arkki’s artists both in the competitions and in the thematic… Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s Solar Book at FIFA – The International Festival of Films on Art, Montréal
Azar Saiyar’s Solar Book will be screened at the 42nd edition of the International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA), held from March 14–24 2024 in Montréal, Canada. The film is included in the screening “FIFA Expérimental – Migrations“, screened on… Read more »
Joonas Hyvönen’s Sematectonia and Hanna Hovitie’s Square the Circle in the International Video Competition of Videoformes
Joonas Hyvönen’s Sematectonia (2024, in featured image) and Hanna Hovitie’s Square the Circle (2023) were selected for the international video competition of the 39th International Festival of Hybrid and Digital Arts Videoformes, held from March 14–31 2024 in Clermont-Ferrand, France…. Read more »
Niina Suominen’s Golden Headacher screened at Tricky Women / Tricky Realities International Animation Festival, Vienna
Niina Suominen’s Golden Headacher (2022) will be screened at Tricky Women / Tricky Realities International Animation Festival, held in Vienna and online from March 6–10 2024. Golden Headacher is included in the screening “Feminist Perspectives“, screened on Saturday, March 9,… Read more »
Short films by Pasi Autio, Hanna Hovitie, Nina Lassila, and Arttu Nieminen at International Short Film Festival Bunter Hund
Pasi Autio’s Feel the Heat (2022, in featured image), Hanna Hovitie’s Square the Circle (2023), Nina Lassila’s The Creature (2023), and Arttu Nieminen’s Lift Up Your Voices (2023) will be screened at the 23rd International Short Film Festival Bunter Hund,… Read more »
Life On Hold
Sanna Liljander
New work
The clock ticks, and life is put on hold. Who gets to have babies and by which means?
Read more »A Beauty Odyssey
Rosaliina Paavilainen
New work
The protagonist's life derails as she realises that she is rewarded for youth and beauty. This conclusion plunges the protagoninst even deeper into patriarchal beauty rituals, constructing her identity and happiness around her appearance. Film exposes the harsh, hidden realities of beauty care, unveiling the unglamorous... Read more »
Women in Kahves
Pilvi Takala
New work
Women in Kahves is a multi-channel installation based on a series of interventions in Turkish teahouses, where traditionally only men spend time and play games. The artist and three Turkish women entered several teahouses to drink tea and to play a game of OKEY. A male assistant documented these actions with a hidden... Read more »
The Switch
Pilvi Takala
New work
On a Saturday afternoon two men were asked to switch teahouses for one night. Ömer from Yedikule travelled to Üsküdar while Yavuz from Üsküdar went to Yedikule. Cameras following both the men documented the swap. On their way, they talk about their relationship to their local teahouses, playing, and... Read more »
The Trainee
Pilvi Takala
New work
In The Trainee, the artist worked for a month as a trainee in the marketing department of Deloitte, an international accounting and consulting firm, where only a few people knew the true nature of the project. During the month-long intervention, an initially normal-seeming marketing trainee starts to apply peculiar working... Read more »
Amusement Park
Pilvi Takala
New work
Amusement Park is a short film in which two young girls are hanging around and watching the rides in a theme park. No words are spoken, but we witness the easy closeness of children mixed with some kind of growing awareness, or embarrassment of their physicality.
Read more »With Spirit There's No Limit
Pilvi Takala
New work
Finland has risen to become one of the top countries within international competitive cheerleading, alongside Japan and the USA. Golden Spirit is one of the main teams in Finland, having won numerous European and Finnish championships as well as taking silver at the World Championships. Takala invited Golden Spirit to... Read more »
Remember?
Sanna Liljander
New work
Photographs capture special moments of our lives, but also remind us of their impermanence. Remember? is a journey through a space of memories.
Read more »Leda&friends
Sara Pathirane
New work
In the choreography for video Leda & friends two bird-like ones have landed on the realm of the poet Sappho on the island of Lesbos. It shows a world where bird-like ones cherish dreams, dance together with nature, love and preserve life, and brood a shared mystery: a hyacinth-coloured egg discovered by Leda. The... Read more »
City plan
Leena Lehti
New work
The city condenses, compresses, develops. City Plan is an experimental short film about the city's transformation. The film is set in Tampere, and it combines documentary super8 footage and plants collected from filming locations.
Read more »Miss
Sanna Liljander
New work
A child tells about a sadness which is hard to forget. Just as hard as catching a fly?
Read more »Fiat Lux
Jarno Parkkima
New work
Images can blind or induce vision. Looking through a camera viewfinder and recording images is an experience, where one can feel intimate closeness and unsurmountable distance simultaneously. Despite the contradiction, this is movement towards something, and distance does create ideals. Screens and images – media... Read more »
Stage
Jarno Parkkima
New work
Visual recording of the silence that occurred when venues of arts and culture were closed in 2022. How does a stage of a theatre or stalls, circle and foyer for audience look and feel, when there is no play, no performance and no audience present?
Read more »Obscure Twilight
Jarno Parkkima
New work
”It ain’t yet night nor dark. Daylight’s direct and demanding brightness has faded. I’m surrounded by the constant flowing change of light, atmosphere and beings. Some kind of living silence. Here, there is allowance and room for my being and my nature: I can be a bit of one and another. Restlessness... Read more »
Salt of My Eyes
Kati Roover
New work
Salt of My Eyes is a poetic essay film about the attempt to connect with ”the mysterious other” whose culture and life are still out of reach but who are constantly disturbed and destroyed by human actions. In the film, the artist observes the culturally complex human and whale relationship, the origin and the... Read more »
Do Rivers Really Ever End
Kati Roover
New work
Do Rivers Really Ever End is a poetic video essay, in which the personal, indigenous and local, mythological and scientific knowledge are combined. The video essay is an attempt to feel empathy toward these inanimate flowing ecosystems, rivers, flowing waters at the time when life giving river and freshwater ecosystems are... Read more »
Modern Humans
Okku Nuutilainen Liinu Grönlund
New work
In the video Modern Humans, a small white dog lives its everyday life in a city apartment. It wanders alone from room to room, dozes on the sofa and waits. The rain is slowly pattering on the window. Images of the dog are layered with fragments from Jean-Luc Godard’s film Le Mépris. The film’s dialogue... Read more »
Y-Division [ ]]
David Muth
New work
The piece Y-Division [ ]] features a composition by sound artist Antti Tolvi: iterations of a distinct melodic motif are being played at slightly different speeds, resulting in a composition both harmonically simple and rhythmically complex. The generative animation by David Muth echoes the timing of the melody: minimal... Read more »
Finnish media art in exhibition in Centrális Galéria, Budapest, Hungary
The Finnish Institute in Budapest FinnAgora and Blinken OSA Archivum present an audiovisual art exhibition “Darling, Let Me Hold You!” in collaboration with AV-arkki – Centre for Finnish Media Art. The exhibition is open in Centrális Galéria from February 13–18 2024…. Read more »
Memories In the Clouds
Kristina Laine Albert Laine
New work
Memories in the Clouds visualizes Kristina Laine’s (formerly Žičkutė) childhood memories in the Soviet Lithuania. Thoughts blend with impressions in a dream-like, painterly experimental documentary film. The film brings forth Kristina's worldview as a child, during the vast socio-political changes of the collapsing... Read more »
Meet the Artist – Camille Auer
Camille Auer (b.1984) is no stranger to personal topics. She is a trans-disciplinary artist who works with sound, video and writing. Auer deals with subjects such as structural violence and othering of transgender people. She is also interested in the… Read more »