Minims is a multiplicity of small things. A poem about the building blocks of our environment, and our sensations. Just as reality is revealed to us in layers, the video is a collage of different videos of small events, constructing a larger structure.
Read more »August Joensalo’s Space Is Quite a Lot of Things (2021) was selected for BFI Flare London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, held in BFI Southbank from March 16-27 2022. Joensalo’s film is included in a joint screening with Angelo Madsen Minax’s feature-length… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Deus Ex Machina will be screened at Regensburg Short Film Week, held from March 18-27 2022. The film will is included in the screening “Trash’n Fun”, running on Friday, March 18, at 21:00, and on Sunday, March 20,… Read more »
HNV Collective’s Atomic (2020) was selected for the Video Competition of Videoformes, held in Clermont-Ferrand from March 17-20 2022. Atomic is included in the competition screening 2, taking place on Saturday, March 19, at 13:00 in Maison de la Culture…. Read more »
Internationales Frauen Film Fest Dortmund + Köln presents a showcase from AV-arkki’s archive, titled “Die Teile des Ganzen” (“Parts of the Whole”). The festival will be held from March 29 to April 3 2022 in Cologne, Germany. Curated by Vivien… Read more »
Maija Tammi’s The Problem of the Hydra (2020) will be screened at Regard – Saguenay International Short Film Festival, one of the most important short film festivals in North America. The festival will be held from March 23-27 2022 in… Read more »
Mika Taanila’s Failed Emptiness. Time (2021) was selected for the experimental section of the International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA), held online from March 15–27 2022. Taanila’s film is included in the programme “The Eye Listens“. Failed Emptiness. Time… Read more »
Tampere Film Festival presents a three-part retrospective and a masterclass by Sami Sänpäkkilä. AV-arkki’s this year’s collaborative screenings delve into rituals, both social and magical. AV-arkki also contributes to the festival’s industry programme with a panel discussion on short film… Read more »
The board of AV-arkki has decided that AV-arkki will not collaborate with Russian organizations. We condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. For the time being, we will not submit nor distribute our artists’ works for the programmes of Russian events… Read more »
Dialogues is a video about drug misuse and depression. One character is ill, the other the only one who sees or knows anything. They embody the voices of many. The video is about communication, fear, hiding and action. The viewer does not always know who is thinking or speaking.
Read more »Curiosity about a world without gender sets a journey through a world of jellyfish and disco uncles, creating space for four trans people to share how they relate (or not) to their own gender, imagine visions of their own queer utopia, and reveal whether gender can be felt in your toes.
Read more »Minna Långström’s Photosphere (2021) was selected for Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s Spring Exhibition, open from February 6 to March 13 2022 in Denmark. Photosphere revolves around the connection between a Hollywood studio film laboratory and a solar observatory during the era of… Read more »
Travel Exercises is a short film about dreams, the desire to travel and our ability to alter the reality through imagination.
Read more »The video depicts a day spent with a juniper. On 3 August 2019, I spent a day with a juniper on Utö, Finland, performing for camera every hour between 7 am and 9 pm, sitting next to the shrub, writing some notes after each session. The material is edited to include the spoken and recorded notes as a voice-over.
Read more »I am writing a letter to a dead spruce sitting on its trunk 29 September 2020 in the forest near Mustarinda house in Paljakkavaara in North-Eastern Finland. The read and recorded letter is added as a voiceover to the beginning of the video depicting its writing.
Read more »Risto-Pekka Blom’s Human Torch (2022) was awarded with a Honorable Mention in the Nordic Competition of Minimalen Short Film Festival, held from January 11–16 2022 in Trondheim, Norway. The Jury gave the mention “To a film that not only experiments… Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s My Home (2022) was selected for the Forum Expanded strand at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), held from February 10–20 2022. The festival will be organised as an in-person 2G-plus event (additional masking and testing requirement)…. Read more »
Talk About Society is a video work combining video images and photography-based animation. The three acts of the work reflect upon the metaphors we use to discuss the society or the state. How can we avoid language and imagery that makes us hostages to the public imagination?
Read more »An ex-saboteur gets back in the game and every trick will be exposed! A short action film about the joint adventure of indie filmmaking - with all the special effects.
Read more »Jenni Luhta’s and Lauri Luhta’s feature-length fiction film The Deluge (2020) was awarded for the Best Writing at Austin Arthouse Film Festival, held online from December 26–31 2021. The film was also nominated for the Best Arthouse film and the… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Deus ex Machina (2021, in featured image) and Mika Taanila’s Failed Emptiness. Time (2021) were selected for the International Competition of Stuttgarter Filmwinter, held online from January 7–16 2022. The online screenings are available in Germany only. Mika… Read more »