Niina Vatanen‘s Danse de la terre (featured image) and Marja Viitahuhta & Ánnámáret’s Vuoiŋŋat (Spirits) are selected for the 25th Silhouette Festival taking place from August 28 to September 5, 2026 in Paris, France. Danse de la terre is screened… Read more »
Niina Suominen’s, Risto-Pekka Blom’s, Carmen Baltzar’s and Marja Viitahuhta & Ánnámáret’s films selected for Minikino Film Week – Bali International Short Film Festival (Sept 11–18, 2026)
Niina Suominen‘s Mindfullmess (featured image), Risto-Pekka Blom‘s Too Blue a Sky, Carmen Baltzar‘s All the Love in My Body and Marja Viitahuhta &Ánnámáret’s Vuoiŋŋat (Spirits) have been selected for Minikino Film Week – Bali International Short Film Festival, taking place… Read more »
Heidi Piiroinen’s I am a River selected for the 79th Edinburgh International Film Festival (13–19 August 2026)
Heidi Piiroinen‘s film I am a River has been selected for the 79th Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) taking place from August 13–19, 2026 in Edinburgh, Scotland. EIFF is the world’s oldest continually running film festival. The film is screened in… Read more »
A Near Approach to Immortality (Hercynian Forest)
Tatu Tuominen
New work
The lost European primeval forest, the Hercynian Forest, rises as a paper set. Small fragments of paper grow to colossal proportions, and the soundtrack consists solely of sounds produced by paper. The video work draws on citations from Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia, in which the mythical primeval forest is... Read more »
Everything is a Projection
Sheung Yiu
New work
Our daily lives and pace are increasingly disrupted by the ever-louder digital world—disruption, falling, starting over, and disruption again. However, advances in digital technology also bring new possibilities for imaging: it can trace the past while helping us shape the future and replicate virtually any... Read more »
Between Two Trees, There Are Many Worlds
Sheung Yiu
New work
Taking two trees – a surviving tree and a dead tree – in the central forest in Helsinki as a starting point, the project explores hyperspectral imaging and posthuman sensing of the natural environments in the context of the ongoing bark beetle infestation in Northern Europe.
Read more »It's a Face-eat-face World
Sheung Yiu
New work
The video essay is a digital fable tracing the cyclical evolution from facial recognition to synthetic facial data. Beginning with a digital scan of the artist’s own face, it recounts the invention of facial recognition and the emergence of synthetic datasets.
Read more »At the Height of the Third Day
Laura Konttinen
New work
The old photograph is living peacefully in its photo album when suddenly a wave washes it away to a wondrous post-memory realm. Changing shape, the photograph travels to a mysterious island and meets the wise Great Mollusc, the Crocodile Twins guarding the gate of oblivion, and finally the Bird of Death, who arrives with a... Read more »
Pink Twins’ Firewalk selected for the 37th Kinoforum – São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Brazil
Pink Twins‘ film Firewalk has been selected for the 37th Kinoforum – São Paulo International Short Film Festival taking place from August 20–30, 2026 in São Paulo, Brazil. The film will be screened in the section Unlimited Showcase. A pre-apocalyptic… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic screened as part of Scotopia On Screen & Space Project (July 4–22, 2026), Chiang Mai, Thailand
Maija Blåfield‘s The Fantastic will be screened as part of Scotopia On Screen & Space Project taking place from July 4-22, 2026 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Scotopia On Screen & Space is an interdisciplinary event combining film screenings, an art… Read more »
Sophia Ehrnrooth’s films part of LABOCINE’s July 2026 Issue Fields of Play
Sophia Ehrnrooth’s films 900 Footballs (featured image), Dream off Championship and A Musical Space – an étude for 4 pianos and 3 players are featured in LABOCINE’s July 2026 issue Fields of Play. In sync with the FIFA 2026 World… Read more »
Milja Viita’s Coriolis part of the exhibition Silver Egg. The Eros of Media Art (Jul 4, 2026–Feb 21, 2027) at ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
Milja Viita‘s film Coriolis is part of the exhibition Silver Egg. The Eros of Media Art, opening on July 4, 2026 at ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany. The exhibition Silver Egg is a call for… Read more »
AV-arkki Open Call 2026: Archive, Distribution Catalogue, and Mediabox
AV-arkki invites artists working with moving image to submit their works to the AV-arkki archive, Distribution Catalogue, and/or for an exhibition time at Mediabox! To make the application process as easy as possible, we have developed our submission procedures: you… Read more »
Thy Father - Installation
Minna Suoniemi
New work
In Thy Father (Isääsi), a teenager encounters a frail old man and supports him with all of his strength. The camera pans over the ground covered in decaying leaves and returns to the encounter between the protagonists. The soundtrack surrounds the young and old man with a threatening ambience. The work reveals... Read more »
Who Has Seen the Wind?
Panu Johansson
New work
How does it feel to live next to 170-year-old creatures? This short impressionistic film documents an old forest area called Mortin männikkö in Rovaniemi, Northern Finland. Through an array of glimpses and moments, the film tries to summarise a decade of life next to this vivid, forested tableau vivant.
Read more »Saara Ekström’s Amnion part of LABOCINE’s June 2026 issue Borders
Saara Ekström‘s Amnion (2023) is part of LABOCINE‘s June 2026 issue Borders. This issue invites films that explore borders across scales—biological membranes, political frontiers, cultural lines, perceptual limits. Landfills on the fringes of cities reveal all about our culture, habits,… Read more »
Sandra Lola Dada’s Elisabeth screened at What’s Your Flavor?’s screening event in Paris on June 17, 2026
Sandra Lola Dada‘s work Elisabeth has been selected to join What’s Your Flavor?, the queer and experimental catalog of Collectif Jeune Cinéma (CJC). The collective also runs the Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux de Paris. CJC is organizing a… Read more »
Risto-Pekka Blom’s Too Blue a Sky competes at OFF – Odense International Film Festival (Aug 24–30, 2026), Denmark
Risto-Pekka Blom‘s Too Blue a Sky is selected for OFF – Odense International Film Festival, taking place from August 24–30, 2026 in Odense, Denmark. The film is screened in the documentary competition DOC3. OFF – Odense International Film Festival is… Read more »
Minirusetti
Anneli Nygren
New work
A TV host on a children's traffic show presents drawings submitted to a competition with the theme 'Draw a child who has been in a traffic accident.' An improvised, one-shot performance.
Read more »Matti Harju’s Yaris, Varis (Yaris, Crow) receives a Special Mention in Videoex 2026 International Competition
Matti Harju‘s film Yaris, Varis (Yaris, Crow) received a Special Mention in Videoex 2026 International Competition from the jury. The jury appreciated the film “for its surprisingly playful way of showing us scenes from the group of young Finnish men… Read more »
All the Love in my Body
KENNO FILMI OSK
New work
All the Love in My Body enters a touristic beach in Greece from the point of view of Nadia and Samara, two young Romani sisters selling toys. The girls navigate the beach with wit, boredom, joy and frustration, interacting with a varied cast of sunbathers. Samara is focused on sales, while Nadia gets caught up in people... Read more »
Drain to
Sini Henttu
New work
In the work Drain to, bodies lay, press and flow against various built and public spaces. The camera rushes past the bodies, initially startled by them, gradually getting used to them, and finally passing them by indifferently. The work reflects on exhaustion in a time when haste and acceleration have become the norm in... Read more »
An efficient Workout for Body and Mind
Edna Huotari
New work
An Efficient Workout for Body and Mind is an experimental video work about control and giving up. Our bodies remember and restore memories and accumulated stress. This video work combines mental stress with the experience of somatic pain. Workout footage combined with the narrator’s story asks how societal realities... Read more »
An emotion, limping
Edna Huotari
New work
An emotion, limping is an experimental short film that uses the human need of being accepted and seen as its premise. The social interactions of the narrator of the video work turn into the sheer panic of a pray animal. A cityscape and footage of animals combine into a story of how in the end, we all want to be loved, but... Read more »
Thy Father
Minna Suoniemi
New work
In Thy Father (Isääsi), a teenager encounters a frail old man and supports him with all of his strength. The camera pans over the ground covered in decaying leaves and returns to the encounter between the protagonists. The soundtrack surrounds the young and old man with a threatening ambience. The work... Read more »
John 9:25 / 52:9 nhoJ
Joel Karppanen
New work
In 1980, 15-year-old Mika Taanila—soon to be a renowned filmmaker—recorded, under his then moniker Musiikkivyöry, a track titled We’re Becoming Blind. Here, played first in reverse, it accompanies abstract 16mm film hand-painted by contemporary teenagers and fragments from Jean-Luc Godard’s Le... Read more »
AV-arkki Webinar Series 2026 introduces the association’s work
AV-arkki will launch a webinar series in spring 2026 that offers a comprehensive introduction to the association’s activities. The series is aimed especially at new artists in the AV-arkki archive, as well as artists and collaborators interested in AV-arkki’s work…. Read more »
Matti Harju’s Yaris, Crow competes at Videoex 2026, Zürich, Switzerland
Matti Harju‘s film Yaris, Crow (2026) has been selected for the International Competition of Videoex, taking place from May 22–31, 2026 in Zürich, Switzerland. Videoex is Switzerland’s largest festival dedicated to experimental film and video. Yaris, Varis (Yaris, Crow) (2026)… Read more »
Audition at Mystero
Mariangela Pluchino
New work
Three actors are competing for the role of a vampire on the stage of Mystero, a theatre specialised in the horror genre. The director of the play surprises everyone with an unexpected twist.
Read more »Sini Pelkki’s Embarkation shown as part of the screening Artist’s Choice: “Fragments: A Selection of Artists’ Films” at Kai Art Center, Tallinn on May 17, 2026
Sini Pelkki‘s work Embarkation (2012) will be screened as part of the film programme Artist’s Choice: “Fragments: A Selection of Artists’ Films”, curated by artist Paul Kuimet and created in dialogue with the exhibition Exploded View at Kai Art Center…. Read more »