Niina Suominen’s Golden Headacher (2022) will be screened in the World Panorama selection of Animafest Zagreb, held from June 5–10 2023 in Croatia. Golden Headacher is an experimental animation documentary about women’s hate and aggression and the culturally sanctioned ways… Read more »
Elian Mikkola’s Man Made at Alchemy Film Festival
Elian Mikkola’s Man Made (2022) will be screened at Alchemy Film Festival, held from April 27–30 2023 in Hawick, Scotland. The film is included in the screening “Music on a farm was a rare thing“, screened on Saturday, April 29,… Read more »
Finnish artists’ short films compete at Vienna Shorts
Our artists’ short films have been selected for the international competitions of Vienna Shorts, held from June 1–6 2023 in Austria. The selection of FIDO Fiction & Documentary International Competiton includes Hanna Hovitie’s Square the Circle (2023), Anssi Kasitonni’s Le… Read more »
Mox Mäkelä’s and Matti Harju’s short films in the international competition of International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Mox Mäkelä’s Thinking about That (2023, in featured image) and Matti Harju’s Ecstasy (2022) were selected for the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, held from April 26 – May 1 2023 in Germany. Matti Harju’s Ecstasy is included in the… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s House of the Wickedest Man in the World screened at Hot Docs and IndieLisboa
Jan Ijäs’s House of the Wickedest Man in the World (2023) will start its international festival run at Hot Docs festival, held in Toronto, Canada, from April 27 to May 7 2023. The film is included in the Nightvision Shorts… Read more »
Pink Twins’ The Transient selected for Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Fest Anča International Animation Festival and Vienna Shorts
Pink Twins’ The Transient (2023) was selected for the international competitions of Annecy International Animation Film Festival, held in France from June 11–17 2023 and Vienna Shorts, held in Austria from June 1–6 2023. The Transient will also be screened… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s short films at Filmfest Dresden, Flatpack Festival and Cabane à Sang Short Film Festival
Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur (2022) will be screened in the open-air screening at Filmfest Dresden, held from April 18–23 2023 in Germany. It was also selected for the short film competition of Flatpack Festival, held in Birmingham, UK, from May… Read more »
August Joensalo’s Space Is Quite a Lot of Things screened at IFFF Dortmund + Köln and Riga ISFF 2 Annas
August Joensalo’s Space Is Quite a Lot of Things (2021) was screened in the international competition of Riga International Short Film Festival 2 Annas, held from April 7–13 2023 in Latvia. Next, it will be screened in the Desired! –… Read more »
The Rootless
August Joensalo
New work
A desire to awaken the heritage of a sleeping culture and language their Karelian heritage between a grandfather and grandchild is interrupted by the grandfather's sudden passing.
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Katarzyna Miron Ewa Gorzna
New work
Surround is a short film reflecting on the relationship between human and nature and our coexistence with other species. The video is an artistic attempt to challenge the typically anthropocentric relation between human and wildlife by reconstructing more animal-centric storytelling and emphasising the animal presence and... Read more »
Ecstasy
Matti Harju
New work
Set in the darkest time of the year, a feverish and delirious film about a small and ever-shrinking island – the Ecstasy – located somewhere between the search for pleasure and the inherently destructive powers of capitalism.
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Leena Kela
New work
Video essay deals with time, slowness and change from the perspectives of a human body and rocks. The big, stable rocks represent slowness and permanence, in which a human touch has made quick changes. A human body itself wouldn’t win the unwavering force of a rock, but by using different tools a human can win... Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur screened at Glasgow Short Film Festival
Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur will be screened at Glasgow Short Film Festival, held from March 22–26 2023 in Scotland. Le Saboteur is included in the screening “For Shorts and Giggles“, screened on Thursday, March 23, at 21.00, and on Saturday,… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic selected for the 19th Videonale exhibition in Bonn, Germany
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) will be presented in the 19th Videonale exhibition, taking place in Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany, from March 31 to May 14 2023. The Fantastic is a film about encountering the unknown and the relationship between imagination… Read more »
Milja Viita’s Bambi and Jussi Eerola’s Grasshopper will be screened at Ann Arbor Film Festival
Milja Viita’s Bambi (2022, in featured image) and Jussi Eerola’s Grasshopper (2023) will be screened at Ann Arbor Film Festival, held from March 21–26 2023 in Michigan, U.S. The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the oldest avant-garde and experimental film… Read more »
Maarit Suomi-Väänänen’s Log Head and Jussi Eerola’s Grasshopper screened at Regensburg Short Film Week
Maarit Suomi-Väänänen’s Log Head (2015) and Jussi Eerola’s Grasshopper (2023) will be screened at Regensburg Short Film Week, held from March 16–26 2023 in Germany. Log Head is included in the screening Plattenfilme on Tuesday, March 21, at 19:30 in… Read more »
Existence
Leena Lehti
New work
An abstract and poetic film dedicated to pollinators. The film's title refers to the alarming decline in insect populations. Existence is a camera-less and chemistry-free film that combines film with pollen, flowers and bee wings.
Read more »Sketch for the Last Map by Lauri Astala screened in France
Lauri Astala’s short film Sketch for the Last Map (2022) is included in competitions at VIDEOFORMES 2023 and Festival L’Europe autour de l’Europe, in France. VIDEOFORMES will be held on March 16 – 19 2023 and Astala’s short film is… Read more »
Hannaleena Heiska’s short film Metamorphosis screened at Le FIFA in Canada
Metamorphosis (2022) by Hannaleena Heiska will be screened at Le Festival International du Film sur l’Art (Le FIFA). The Festival is held on March 14-26 2023 in Montréal, Canada and online from March 24 to April 2. The screening of… Read more »
The Scream
Leena Lehti
New work
Breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, scream!
Read more »Tissue
Henna-Riikka Halonen
New work
In this film, series of long takes guide us from a fictional prosthetic factory through the nostril, skin and tissue to the nervous system and into the cell. The modified 3D model of an animal cell becomes a strange world inhabited by different living and non-living organisms. Here, we see the body simultaneously as a... Read more »
Ánnámáret’s and Marja Viitahuhta’s collaboration works screened in Wales and New Zealand in March
Dolos niegut – Ancient dreams (2022) by Marja Viitahuhta and Ánnámáret is screened at WOW Wales One World Film Festival, held on March 3 to April 7 2023 both in Wales and online. The short film is also part of… Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s retrospective, Ukrainian films and other highlights of this years Tampere Film Festival
This year Tampere Film Festival has a long list of short films by AV-arkki’s member artists included in the competition programs and festival screenings. AV-arkki presents two collaborative screenings in the festival programme: a retrospective of Azar Saiyar, and a… Read more »
The Best Lover
Poike Productio Ninni Kaminen
New work
The Best Lover is a short film about loving yourself. It plays with the myths of love in pursuit of the revolutionary power of self-love. Feminist humour bubbles and confuses, as artificial intelligence mines the definition of the best lover, and the retired Queen of the Galaxy addresses the inhabitants of Earth. As in a... Read more »
Meet the Artist – Marjo Levlin
Marjo Levlin’s (b.1966) road to becoming the video artist that we see today has not been straightforward by any means. Slipping through the back door into art pedagogy and the museum industry the artist was from time to time unsure… Read more »
Short films by Marja Viitahuhta and Ánnámáret screened at The 2023 Sámi Film Festival held online and in New York
Siedi (2022) and Dolos niegut – Ancient dreams (2022, in featured image) by Marja Viitahuhta and Ánnámáret have been selected to the 5th Annual Sámi Film Festival. The festival takes place on 9.2.-12.2.2023 and is held both online and in-person…. Read more »
Mother, pregnant version
Pekka Kantonen Lea Kantonen
New work
The video is a documentation of performances held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma when Lea was in the third trimester of pregnancy. The performance is a one-woman multimedia opera. Its components include an emotional improvisation based on religious songs, two video projections, a slide show, a super 8 film, and... Read more »
Uhritanssi
Lea Kantonen
New work
The video is a document of the first performative graduation project of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. The perfomance is an observation of the effect of movement on breathing and sound of a moving person. The movement continues until the speech is completely inhibited. The space of the performance is a painting... Read more »
Escape Character
Joonas Hyvönen
New work
It’s 2042 and the so-called first contact has taken place. A crisis ensues after a message is sent without an emoji marking its sarcastic tone. The foreign civilization departs but leaves humanity with a new form of communication. Escape Character is an animated film following four characters trying to find their way... Read more »
Grasshopper
Jussi Eerola
New work
Night falls down on empty business premises – and lights go up! A minimalistic musical.
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