Kari Yli-Annala (b. 1965) has a non-academic, non-artist family background. It was becoming such a determining factor in his life, that he felt it had to be broken. He struggled to find another kind of life, which he found working… Read more »
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic screened in Musée d’art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic (2020) will be screened in the MUMABOX screening “Météorologiques” on Wednesday, February 8 2023, at 18:00 in Musée d’art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre. The screening, curated by Christophe Guérin, accompanies the ongoing exhibition “Météorologiques”… Read more »
August Joensalo’s Space Is Quite a Lot of Things at Queer Screen Mardi Gras Festival, Sydney
August Joensalo’s Space Is Quite a Lot of Things (2021) will be screened at Queer Screen Mardi Gras Festival, held from February 15 – March 2 2023 in Sydney, Australia. Joensalo’s short film is included in the screening QueerDoc Shorts,… Read more »
Several films by our artists at International Film Festival Rotterdam
International Film Festival Rotterdam will be held from January 25 – February 5 2023 as an on-site edition. Several films by AV-arkki’s artists were selected for different strands of the festival. Matti Harju’s Natura (2023) was selected for the Bright… Read more »
Snugglesafe
Reija Meriläinen
New work
Snugglesafe is a story about a kitten’s fight for survival in the care of a human. The care shown in the video is not tender or pampering but forceful, agonizing and full of repetitive routines. The story is told backwards, ending with the kitten being born.
Read more »Competition
Noora Geagea
New work
Competition is a video re-edited and sampled from old VHS tapes from the 90s, of the artist as a young highly competitive rhythmic gymnast. The work highlights the beauty in the movements, but also the destructive regime to reach this level of perfection. In this work, the artist recalls the army-like methods of the... Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s short films compete at Stuttgarter Filmwinter and Courts mais trash festival, Brussels
Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur (2022) starts its new festival year 2023 with screenings in international competitions of Stuttgarter Filmwinter, held from January 12–15 2023 in Germany, and Courts mais trash film festival, held in Brussels, Belgium, from January 24–28 2023…. Read more »
Hope
Juhani Koivumäki
New work
Three-part short documentary film Hope explores the kind of dreams different people have, whilst also considering how the tone of these wishes changes according to varying life circumstance. After experiencing all of these wishes together, the spectator is urged to reflect upon their own personal hopes and desires.
Read more »Day with a Bog Birch (with text)
Annette Arlander
New work
Day with a Bog Birch (with text) was recorded on 23 September 2020 with a birch on a bog near Mustarinda house in Hyrynsalmi in Northeastern Finland every hour from sunrise to sunset (7 am to 7 pm). The texts were written after each session and recorded the following day.
Read more »The Reclining Birch mix
Annette Arlander
New work
The Reclining Birch mix was performed with a reclining birch on a forest path near Mustarinda house in Hyrynsalmi in Northeastern Finland on 8 September 2020, recording the same image without the human figure and then combining the two videos with slow crossfades.
Read more »The Daily Birch (September in Mustarinda) brief
Annette Arlander
New work
The Daily Birch (September in Mustarinda) was performed daily with a birch behind Mustarinda house in Hyrynsalmi in Northeastern Finland between 2 and 30 September 2020 (except September 14) and here in the brief version edited with 30-second clips of each session.
Read more »AV-arkki special at Minimalen Short Film Festival – Several titles by our artists in the Nordic Competition
AV-arkki starts a new festival year 2023 with a two-part special screening programme at Minimalen Short Film Festival, held in Trondheim from January 10–15 2023. In addition, several short films by our artists were selected for the Nordic competition. Finnish… Read more »
AV-arkki’s Distribution Catalogue 2022–2023 is published now!
Featured image: Elian Mikkola: Man Made (2022) Our catalogue offers a diverse portrait of recent single channel art works by artists and filmmakers based in Finland. AV-arkki’s Distribution Catalogue 2022-2023 is intended for professional preview. The catalogue is distributed via AV-arkki’s international… Read more »
Sieidi
Marja Viitahuhta
New work
What happens when old beliefs and modern times collide and we create new relationships with old cultural signifiers? In Sieidi, Ánnámáret builds a relationship with the sieidi, an offering place and its being by yoiking. Yoiking makes the siedi true and strengthens its power. The video shows Samuli... Read more »
Drift
Appu Jasu
New work
An encounter in the woods sends a squirrel on an inner journey. No animals were harmed in the making of this film.
Read more »Earthbound
Milla-Kariina Oja
New work
Earthbound is a kind of a meditative journey into the depths of the Earth, inside the natural material of the stone itself. In this kaleidoscopically constructed film, nature draws its own mystical story, in which human beings play a part only for a brief moment. The work reflects on human beings’ intimate and... Read more »
He said we'd met in space and suggested we travel back together
Milla-Kariina Oja
New work
He said we'd met in space and suggested we travel back together is a two-channel spatial video installation, centred on a man and a woman who seem to have been inserted into this multidimensional cinematic world. To be in the world is apparently to be on the brink of absurdity. The difference between real and choreographed,... Read more »
Four Sculptures in Fifteen Pieces
Jonna Kina
New work
Four Sculptures in Fifteen Pieces reflects on issues relating to creation and destruction. The sculptures seen in the film are excavated fragments from the ruins of an Art Museum of Estonia destroyed during the bombing of Tallinn in the spring of 1944. The fifteen pieces are originally from four different classical... Read more »
Stone under the Moon
Milla-Kariina Oja
New work
If nature had a mind, how would it work? Could we commune with it? How would it be possible to understand the innermost essence of a natural entity such as a stone or the wind? These questions have driven the odd imaginary world that Milla-Kariina Oja has constructed in the Stone under the Moon video installation. The... Read more »
Meet the Artist – Jenni Luhta
Jenni Luhta, who first became known by her maiden name Jenni Markkanen, has had two very different artistic identities. It is as if the two names denote two separate persons and careers. Now after ten years of work Jenni reflects… Read more »
Short films by Jenni Toikka and Sevgi Eker screened at Leuven Short Film Festival, Belgium
Preludi Op. 28 No. 2 (2022) by Jenni Toikka and 7 P.M. on a Sunday (2022, featured image) by Sevgi Eker are part of Leuven Short Film Festival in Belgium, held on December 2-10 2022. The short film by Toikka… Read more »
Metamorphosis by Hannaleena Heiska screened at Kinoskop Festival, Serbia
Hannaleena Heiska’s short film Metamorphosis (2022) has been selected to Kinoskop – Analog Experimental Film Festival. The Festival is held on December 2-4 2022 in Belgrade, Serbia. Metamorphosis is part of a screening called “Bodies in Ecstasy“, taking place on… Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s My Home part of short-movies competion at Laceno d’Oro in Italy
My Home (2022) by Azar Saiyar is included in short-movies competition “Gli occhi sulla città” at Laceno d’Oro International Film Festival. Saiyar’s short film is part of the competition’s subschedule #2, taking place on December 2 2022 at 4:30 PM…. Read more »
The Maiden of Finland
Pekka Kantonen Lea Kantonen
New work
The video tells the story of man's destructive and protective relationship with nature. On the shores of a wilderness pond, a performer dressed as a Maiden Finland threatens her temple with an ax, and with the other hand, she protects her head. Mother, father, and little child do everyday chores in a wilderness where trees... Read more »
I am a Spring, memories of two pregnancies and childbirth.
Lea Kantonen Pekka Kantonen
New work
The starting point of the video is Lea Kantonen's participation in the God's Eye performance of the Auki group. The internal dialogue was created on the basis of the Gestalt therapy dream work. It deals with the performer's experience of childbirth. Personal experience expands from human nature to planet Earth nature and to... Read more »
Those Who Kept the Light / Seaweed
Nastja Säde Rönkkö
New work
Those Who Kept the Light is a series of videos exploring our dependent relationship with the sea, in a context of queer and feminist maritime narratives. The narratives are told through the context of human and other-than-human love stories; the wind or the ocean are seen as entities with consciousness, emotions and a... Read more »
House of the Wickedest Man in the World
Jan Ijäs
New work
House of the Wickedest Man in the World is the story of a ruined building near the city of Cefalú in Sicily. In the early 1920s, Aleister Crowley, the most famous occultist of his time, lived in the building, practicing magical rituals, and using hard drugs to heighten their intensity. Crowley also painted frescoes... Read more »
Her Subjects
Johanna Lecklin
New work
The stop motion animation Her Subjects draws attention to the power of the royals on their subjects, such as the colonies. It consists of three parts. The piece discusses questions of power in a time, when the thought of some peoples’ inherent privilege seems outdated. It considers traditions of the monarchy, which... Read more »
New short fiction and experimental films in AV-arkki’s archive / Fall ’22
Featured image from Elina Oikari: Flying Potato and Other Misunderstandings (2021) Discover AV-arkki’s latest acquisitions for our online archive below. For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Short fiction Pasi Autio: Feel the Heat (2022, 09:06) Feel the Heat… Read more »
New animations in AV-arkki’s archive / Fall ’22
The Pink Twins: The Transient (2023) Discover new animations in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Timo Bredenberg: Legacy (2022, 04:00) This photogrammetry-based animation documents the demolition of a former state office building. In addition… Read more »