The Rencontres Internationales festival will be held in Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin from August 16–21 2022. The programme includes moving image works by Saara Ekström, Jonna Kina, Jussi Eerola, and Matti Harju. Jonna Kina’s After Life followed by… Read more »
Lauri Astala’s Sketch for the Last Map screened at Open-Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, Germany
Lauri Astala’s Sketch for the Last Map (2022) will be screened at Open-Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, held in Germany from August 11–15 2022. The screening of Astala’s film takes place on Sunday, August 14, at 19:01. In the core of Sketch… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s Waste Vol. 1 screened at Mostra Ecofalante de Cinema, Brazil
Jan Ijäs’s Waste Vol. 1 (2020) is screened at Mostra Ecofalante de Cinema, held in Brazil from July 27 to August 17 2022. Waste Vol 1. is available in the festival’s online programme from Monday, August 8 to Wednesday, August… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur selected for the international short film competition at DokuFest, Prizren, Kosovo
Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur (2022) will have its international premiere in the international short film competition of DokuFest, held in Prizren, Kosovo, from August 5-13 2022. In Le Saboteur, an ex-saboteur gets back in the game and every trick will… Read more »
Summer break July 11-31 2022
Our office will be closed from July 11-31 2022 due to our annual leave. We thank all our artists, clients, collaborators, and friends for this spring season – see you in August!
Azar Saiyar’s Laila’s Apple and Sami van Ingen’s Flame screened at Suspaustaus Laikas experimental film festival, Vilnius
Azar Saiyar’s Laila’s Apple (2021, in featured image) and Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) will be screened in an experimental film screening “The Archival Impulse” at Suspaustas Laikas experimental film festival, taking place in the MO Museum of Vilnius, Lithuania,… Read more »
Jarkko Räsänen’s videos in Germany and Kosovo
Two videos by Jarkko Räsänen, Change (2022) and Supertelevision (2022, in featured image) are screened at international film events. Change is included in “Black Out“, an international short film exhibition open from July 2-17 2022 in Alten Kino, Frankfurt (Oder),… Read more »
Marja Viitahuhta’s Flames screened at Māoriland Film Festival
Marja Viitahuhta’s Flames was recently screened at Māoriland Film Festival, held from June 29 – July 3 2022 in Māoriland, Ōtaki, Kāpiti Coast. The screening took place on Sunday, July 3. “When we pass from this world to another, the… Read more »
Moving image by Pasi Autio, Marja Helander, Elina Oikari, and Marja Viitahuhta at New Horizons Film Festival, Wrocław, Poland
22nd IFF New Horizons will be held on July 21-31, 2022 in Wrocław, Poland. This year’s programme includes a focus on the global North, including moving image works by our artists. Pasi Autio‘s Feel the Heat (2022, in featured image) and Marja Helander‘s Birds… Read more »
Feel the Heat
Pasi Autio
New work
Feel the Heat depicts a one-man disco in a forest at night, and the atmosphere is magnificent – the lights are flashing, birds are singing, dancing continues and time disappears. The night cannot go on forever and, in the morning, the surrounding reality is revealed.
Read more »Once Wanted
Iiris Saaren-Seppälä
New work
Once Wanted portrays pieces of trash – the most underestimated creatures in the world – behaving like human beings. The trash struggle between their self-image, as well as their sense of reality, like people do. The film plays with guilt and shame related to both overconsumption and human needs.
Read more »Risto-Pekka Blom’s The Human Torch awarded as the Best International Short Film at the Norwegian Short Film Festival
Risto-Pekka Blom’s The Human Torch was awarded as the best international short film at the Norwegian Short Film Festival, held in Grimstad from June 8-12 2022. The jury states: “Seemingly simple, this surprisingly dense film makes us question inherited codes… Read more »
Jenni Toikka’s Prelude Op. 28 No. 2 selected for FID Marseille
Jenni Toikka’s Prelude Op. 28 No. 2 (2022) will be screened in “Other Gems” programme at International Film Festival FID Marseille, held from July 5-11 2022 in France. The screenings of Prelude Op. 28 No. 2 take place on Saturday,… Read more »
Anthropobee
Mia Mäkelä
New work
Anthropobee is an experimental video essay about the unique interspecies relationship between humans and the honey bee (apis mellifera). The artist spent three years as a beekeeper, documenting her experiences in a series of humorous, poetic, and contemplative dialogues which leave space for not-knowing and ecocentricity,... Read more »
Submit your new title(s) for our next festival catalogue
We invite our member artists to submit their new title(s) for AV-arkki’s distribution catalogue 2022-2023, deadline Monday, July 31! For the catalogue, we are looking for primarily single channel works that will be released in 2022 or 2023. The works… Read more »
Flying Potato and Other Misunderstandings
Elina Oikari
New work
In grainy, transitory images, the filmmaker relates her vision for directing a neo-Western. She imagines that the greatest hurdle her protagonists, Yassine and Hami, will have to face will be the friendly but firm rejection of Finnish society. When violence on the imaginary frontier escalates in the form of a flying potato,... Read more »
Failed Emptiness. Place
Mika Taanila
New work
The days are long. Their core is hot. Thermographic camera looks at a new residential area in eastern Helsinki.
Read more »Ancient dreams
Marja Viitahuhta
New work
The memories and documented imagery of reindeer herding and nomadic ways of life mix with the contemporary herding of reindeers in Dolos Niegut - Ancient dreams, an experimental music video to a track by Ánnámáret, Ilkka Heinonen and Turkka Inkilä from the album Nieguid duovdagat. How we perceive... Read more »
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Anu Pennanen
New work
What if our greatest fear is not death but worthless life? Fifty years old Kati occupies a top position in a large company. Disappointed in life, leaving work she embarks on a journey into the end of despair. Encounter with another woman at night fails. Kati flees the world hiding inside a forest bunker. A flourishing... Read more »
Helka Heinonen’s The Swirl screened at BelDocs
Helka Heinonen’s The Swirl (2022) will be screened at BelDocs International Documentary Film Festival, held from May 11-18 2022 in Belgrade, Serbia. If nothing happens, why is it better not to tell about it? The Swirl examines boundaries on the… Read more »
Maija Tammi’s The Problem of the Hydra awarded as the best short film at the 57th international Festival of Science Documentary Films, Olomouc
Maija Tammi’s The Problem of the Hydra (2020) won the international short film competition of the 57th International Festival of Science Documentary Films, Olomouc, held from April 26 to May 1 2022 in Academia Film Olomouc, Czech Republic. The jury states… Read more »
The Swirl
Helka Heinonen
New work
If nothing happens, why is it better not to tell about it? The Swirl examines boundaries on the turning point of growing up. At the end of the school year, a 12-year-old girl gets an exceptional gift from her teacher, a trip up north. They travel together. As an adult, she re-examines her experience. The work studies... Read more »
Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen’s exhibition “This Is Not a Rehabilitation Project” in Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen’s private exhibition “This Is Not a Rehabilitation Project” is open until July 3 2022 in Artport Gallery in Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada. Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen’s work deals with disability politics, aesthetics of assistive devices and gender issues related to… Read more »
Laura Horelli’s Namibia Today in the group exhibition “Revolutionary Romances – Prologue” in Albertinum, Dresden
Laura Horelli’s Namibia Today (2017) is included in the group exhibition “Revolutionary Romances – Prologue” in Albertinum, Dresden. The exhibition is open until July 17 2022. The exhibition and research project Revolutionary Romances. Transcultural Art Histories in the GDR focuses on the… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s new installation Four Sculptures in Fifteen Pieces in Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn
Jonna Kina’s new installation Four Sculptures in Fifteen Pieces (2022) is on view in Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, until October 2 2022. Four Sculptures in Fifteen Pieces is commissioned by Lappeenranta Art Museum in collaboration with Art Museum of Estonia. Kina’s… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic screened at Québec International Festival of Ethnographic Films Montréal
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) will be screened at Québec International Festival of Ethnographic Films (FIFEQ), held in Montréal from May 11-15 2022. The screening of The Fantastic takes place on Thursday, May 12, at 20:50. The Fantastic is a film… Read more »
New Short Fictions in Our Archive / Spring ’22
Featured image from: Anssi Kasitonni: Le Saboteur (2022) Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Alisa Javits: Dialogues (2022, 15:58) Dialogues is a video about drug misuse and depression. One character… Read more »
New Performative Videos in Our Archive / Spring ’22
Featured image from: Sara Pathirane: Seahorses (2021) Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Annette Arlander: Day with Old Tjikko 1 (2019, 17:45) The video depicts a day with Old Tjikko,… Read more »
Is All
Sini Pelkki
New work
Time, transience, and presence through interpretation, repetition, and imitation.
Read more »New Animations, Documentary Films & Videos, and Installations in Our Archive / Spring ’22
Featured image from: Jarkko Räsänen: Change (2022) Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. animations Nuutti Koskinen: Talk About Society (2019, 17:55) Talk About Society is a video work combining video images… Read more »