Pena has been driving a semi-truck for 50 years and that's the way he wants it to be in the future as well. He has some slight memory issues but it is not going to stop him.
Read more »Axel Straschnoy’s solo show Brave the Heavenly Breezes is exhibited in Del Infinito, Buenos Aires, Argentina from 2 November – 22 December 2023. “The exhibition showcases Straschnoy’s plans to build and launch an interstellar flanêur based on a technology first… Read more »
Karolina Kucia’s We Bites Us (2023, in featured image) has been awarded the Clublum Award for the best experimental short film at Pornfilmfestival Berlin. The festival was held from October 25–29, 2023. The festival states: “With a colorful scenario and… Read more »
A mother spends alone time in nature with high expectations of its magic powers.
Read more »Nina-Maria Oförsagd’s new film Bar 2000 (2023, in featured image) premieres on Friday November 3, 2023 at 7pm in Tokyo, Japan. The screening will take place at TIME SHARING 3A, Shibuya, Jinnan and is hosted by the Finnish Institute in… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s Scenic View (2023), Jussi Eerola’s Grasshopper (2023) and Matti Harju’s Ecstasy (2023, in featured image) are screened at Short Waves Festival, taking place from November 14–19, 2023 in Poznań, Poland and online from November 20–30, 2023. The works… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s Four Sculptures in Fifteen Pieces (2022, in featured image) is screened at Kassler Dokfest, taking place from November 14–19, 2023 in Kassel, Germany. The work takes part in the screening #22, titled What Is This Obelisk Doing Here?… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s Scenic View (2023, in featured image) is screened at Interfilm Berlin, taking place from November 14–19, 2023 in Berlin, Germany. The work is screened in the special programme Reality Bites on November 15, 2023 at 9pm in Unterfilm… Read more »
Jussi Eerola’s Grasshopper (2023, in featured image) takes part in PÖFF shorts, taking place from November 7–15, 2023 in Tallinn, Estonia. The work is screened in two screening programmes: Night cinema on Thursday November 9, 2023 at 9pm in Terminal… Read more »
Featured image: Helka Heinonen: Heartbeats (2023) Discover AV-arkki’s latest acquisitions for our online archive below. For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Maija Blåfield: Scenic View (2023, 15:45) Finland has the most forest in Europe, but primeval forest has… Read more »
Featured image: Paola Fernanda Guzmán Figueroa: Returning to the Island (2022) Discover AV-arkki’s latest acquisitions for our online archive below. For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. New performance based works Annette Arlander: Dear Spruce 1–7 (2023, 02:16:04) Seven… Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s My Home is installed at Goethe Institute, Prague from November 17–23, 2023, as a part of a programme presenting works from the Arsenal Berlinale Forum Expanded catalogue. The films are screened for a week each over a six-week… Read more »
Featured image: Karolina Kucia: We Bites Us (2023) Discover AV-arkki’s latest acquisitions for our online archive below. For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. New short fiction Risto-Pekka Blom: Last Call (2024, 09:57) The lawnmower, the vacuum cleaner and… Read more »
Sasha Huber partakes in a group exhibition titled Stranger in the Village – Reflecting on Racism with James Baldwin, taking place 03.09.2023 – 07.01.2024 at Aargauer Kunsthaus. “In his famous text Stranger in the Village, the US-American writer James Baldwin… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s House of the Wickedest Man in the World (2023, in featured image), Maija Blåfield’s Scenic View (2023) and Risto-Pekka Blom’s Oh no, Lasse Falls! (2023) are screened at Nordic Film Days Lübeck, taking place from November 1–5, 2023…. Read more »
Matti Harju’s Ecstasy (2023, in featured image), Antti Tanttu’s Noli Timere (2022), Jenni Toikka’s Prelude Op. 28 No. 2 (2022) and Jussi Eerola’s Grashopper (2023) are screened at Rencontres internationales, taking place October 30–November 5, 2023 in Paris, France. Timo… Read more »
Leena Pukki’s The Time of a Slime Mold (2021, in featured image) has been selected to be screened at the SLA Art Space Animation Film Festival, taking place from October 25–28, 2023 in New York City, US. The screening featuring… Read more »
AV-arkki’s member artists’ films have been selected for Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, taking place from October 24–29, 2023 in Jihlava, Czech Republic. Hanna Kaihlanen’s Hovering Over Us (2023) competes in the Short Joy competition on Thursday October 26 at… Read more »
Panu Johansson’s Water Tower Symphony (2023, in featured image) and Milja Viita’s Delight at Robert St. (2023) will be screened at Antimatter Media Art Festival, held from October 20–29 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The screening of Panu Johansson’s Water… Read more »
Jarkko Räsänen’s Altlanti (2023) is screened in the short film competition of the Split Film Festival, held from October 12–21 2023 in Croatia. How would the AI imagine a collective performance in the lost Atlantis? An etude with Stable Diffusion… Read more »
This year’s Uppsala Short Film Festival is held on October 23–29, 2023 in Uppsala, Sweden. The festival features Maija Blåfield’s Scenic View (2023, in featured image) and Pink Twins’ The Transient (2023) in competition, while Marja Helander’s Áfruvvá (Mermaid) (2022),… Read more »
Saara Ekström’s Amnion (2023, in featured image) and Hanna Hovitie’s Square the Circle (2023) have been chosen for Flight International Film Festival, taking place October 18–22, 2023 in Genoa, Italy. Amnion is screened in Cinema Gioiello on Friday October 20… Read more »
Pink Twins’ The Transient (2023, in featured image) is screened at Fredrikstad Animation Festival taking place October 19–22, 2023 in Fredrikstad, Norway. The screening titled Abstraction at hoi polloi takes place on Thursday October 19 at 6pm. This year the… Read more »
In this speechless video, a dinner is laid on the table. Arriving guests are creatures that are typically found on the plate. The work aims to present this farm animal as an equal to humans, even though the situation, and the perspective, is human-centred.
Read more »The lawnmower, the vacuum cleaner and the tram are using up the last of electricity man has left behind on earth. Man behaving badly has finally been evicted from Earth, which is a good thing for other species.
Read more »Homo sapiens is a short film about a family whose entire life happens in their home. They have no contact with their species partners and live under constant surveillance. The family knows nothing but the prevailing circumstances. Not even the viewer knows who is watching them.
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