They Go Gentle Into That Night Work (2020) by Soile Mottisenkangas was awarded as the Best Experimental Documentary at Close:Up Edinburgh Docufest, held from December 16–17 2021 in Cameo Picturehouse. In this creative short documentary about rhythm of work, a… Read more »
Short films by Azar Saiyar, Mika Taanila, Matti Harju, and Risto-Pekka Blom in the Nordic Competition of Minimalen Short Film Festival
The 34th Minimalen Short Film Festival will be held from January 11–16 2022 in Trondheim, Norway. Four short films by our artists were selected for the Nordic Competition: Mika Taanila’s Failed Emptiness. Time (2021), Matti Harju’s El Centro (2021), Azar… Read more »
AV-arkki will host two INFO seminars for member artists in January
As a follow-up for our first AV-arkki INFO seminars held in October 2020, we will host two online seminars for our member artists in January 2022. The seminars will be held in English. The sign-up for the attendees is open,… Read more »
New Fiction in Our Archive / Fall ’21
Risto-Pekka Blom: The Human Torch (2022) Discover new fiction in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Risto-Pekka Blom: The Human Torch (2022, 05:56) We have acted according to the demands of society. We have followed… Read more »
New Installations and Performative Videos in Our Archive / Fall ’21
Featured image from: Maija Tammi & Charles Quevillon: The 1m3 Human Experiment (2018) Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Annette Arlander: Sunday with a Pine – with text (2017, 08:12)… Read more »
AV-arkki’s Distribution Catalogue 2021–2022 is published now!
Featured image: Salla Tykkä: Europe – Europa (2021) Our catalogue offers a diverse portrait of recent single channel art works by artists and filmmakers based in Finland. AV-arkki’s Distribution Catalogue 2021-2022 is intended for professional preview. The catalogue is distributed via AV-arkki’s… Read more »
The Human Torch
Risto-Pekka Blom
New work
We have acted according to the demands of society. We have followed the rules. We do not mock or belittle people different from us. But it is not okay to come here to upset the status quo, provoking all kinds of jeering at the hot dog kiosk. The Human Torch is a one-shot short film about a traffic crossing at night, where... Read more »
Jussi Eerola’s and Maija Tammi’s short films awarded at Festival Tous Courts, Aix-en-Provence
Festival Tous Courts, held from November 30 to December 4 2021 in Aix-en-Provence, France, proved to be successful. Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic (2020) was awarded with the Grand Prix of the experimental competition, and Maija Tammi’s The Problem of… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic in competition screenings in Italy and Iran
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) was selected for competition programmes of Laceno d’Oro International Film Festival, held from December 1–8 2021 in Avellino, Italy, and online, and Iran DocFest CinemaVerite, held from December 9–16 2021 in the Documentary and Experimental… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 4 New York, New York at Harvard Film Archive
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 4 New York, New York (2019) is streamed by Harvard Film Archive from December 3–6 2021 as double bill with Thomas Kneubühler’s Forward Looking Statements (2014). Waste no. 4 New York, New York revisits the history… Read more »
New Documentary Films and Videos in Our Archive / Fall ’21
Featured image: Lauri Astala: Sketch for the Last Map (2022) Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Sami Ala: How It Was? (2022, 12:34) Four people who lived in the same… Read more »
Saara Ekström’s Body All Eyes screened at the International Film Festival of Popular Science and Educational films “The World of Knowledge” in St. Petersburg
Saara Ekström’s Body All Eyes (2018) is screened at the International Film Festival of Popular Science and Educational films “The World of Knowledge“, held in St. Petersburg from December 1–6 2021. The film is included in the screening “The Hallucination… Read more »
New Animations in Our Archive / Fall ’21
Featured image: Marja Viitahuhta: Dolat (2021) Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Dave Berg: The Incredible Beauty of Forgetting (2021, 11:09) A story of the consequences of the past unprocessed… Read more »
Jussi Eerola’s and Maija Tammi’s short films compete at Festival Tous Courts, France
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic (2020) and Maija Tammi’s The Problem of the Hydra (2020, in featured image) were selected for the experimental competition of Festival Tous Courts, held in Aix-en-Provence, France, from November 30 – December 4 2021. Both… Read more »
Into the Wild
Mia Mäkelä
New work
Into the Wild is a honeybee’s journey to the heart of the anthropocene. The video takes us back in time, to a remote village in Southern Lithuania. By documenting ancient beekeeping activities, Makela tracks down key moments in the relationship between two species, and how this affected the process of subjucating the... Read more »
Hexual Spellings
Timo Vaittinen
New work
Hexual Spellings is a story of a company based in New York in the late 1980′s that provided custom made visual spells in the form of video production. Spells were made-to-order based on customer requests, and were delivered on tapes to be played in Video Home Systems. These visual spells could be used for protection,... Read more »
Mox Mäkelä’s Andjust and Jenni & Lauri Luhta’s The Deluge awarded at Innuendo Film Festival
Mox Mäkelä’s Andjust (2020, in featured image) and Jenni and Lauri Luhta’s The Deluge were awarded at Innuendo Film Festival, held from October 27-30 2021 in Milan, Italy. Andjust was awarded as the best experimental film while The Deluge was… Read more »
Minna Rainio’s and Mark Roberts’ To Teach a Bird to Fly at DokumentArt Festival, Germany
Minna Rainio’s and Mark Roberts’ To Teach a Bird to Fly (2020) is screened at DokumentArt Festival, held in Neubrandenburg, Germany, from November 23–27 2021. The film will be screened on Thursday, November 25, at 17:00 in Kino Latücht as… Read more »
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth screened at Porto/Post/Doc
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth (2018) is included in the programme of Porto/Post/Doc, held from November 20–30 in Porto, Portugal, and online. Birds in the Earth is part of the screening “Ideas to Postpone the End of the World”…. Read more »
Pilvi Takala’s If Your Heart Wants It (Remix) competes at Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival
Pilvi Takala’s If Your Heart Wants It (Remix) (2020) will be screened in the international competition of Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, held from November 17–21 2021 in Romania. The screening of Takala’s short film takes place on Saturday, November… Read more »
Short films by Flis Holland, Maija Tammi, and Jari Kallio & Essi Vesala at Kasseler DokFest
Jari Kallio’s and Essi Vesala’s Magma (2020, in featured image), Flis Holland’s Subserotic Bulge (2021), and Maija Tammi’s The Problem of the Hydra (2020) are screened at Kasseler DokFest, held from November 16–21 2021 on-site and online. All on-site screenings… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s Belgrade Forest Incident… and What Happened to Mr. K? screened at La Cabina International Medium-length Film Festival
Jan Ijäs’s Belgrade Forest Incident… and What Happened to Mr. K? (2020) will be screened at La Cabina International Medium-Length Film Festival, held in Valencia from November 9–19 2021. The screening of Ijäs’s documentary film takes place on Saturday, November… Read more »
Morrison & Friends
Paula Lehtonen
New work
Documentary videoart piece Morrison & Friends depicts interspecies communications between humans and an alpaca. Morrison alpaca works with animal-assisted activities and alpaca therapy, visiting nursing homes with his trainer Tarja Jokinen. As a therapy animal, Morrison is used to interacting with people and he is not... Read more »
Claim road Aurajoki
Anne Lehtelä
New work
Claim Road is a continuous series of works based on running. At the exhibition place, the work will be shown as a live stream of the progress of the run. In a work detached from materiality, public space is conquered through action. Claim road Aurajoki is a snippet recording from a 3-day live streamed run.
Read more »Parasols
Sara Pathirane
New work
Dance video work Parasols is a dreamlike flit in a meadow lined with large plague root leaves. The work is like a moving postcard from colonial times in East Asia. The music of the dance video leads to soundscape reminds of sounds in between plants and soundscape of dewdrops.
Read more »Jukka Silokunnas’ Transporter screened at Reggio Film Festival
Jukka Silokunnas’ Transporter was screened at Reggio Film Festival in the international short film contest. The festival is held from October 26 – November 8 2021 in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Transporter is a stop motion animation about a forgotten van. Odometer… Read more »
Flames
Marja Viitahuhta
New work
“When we pass from this world to another, the flames of our ancestors will be waiting for us.” - Ánnámáret. A video work with the yolk Dolat by Ánnámáret, from her album “Nieguid duovdagat”. In the video, embers and fire particles twirl in the air,... Read more »
Taiga
Leena Lehti
New work
Elegy to the boreal forest. With the warming climate, the borders of different life zones move towards the North, and the conifer as we know it is changing and disappearing. Taiga is made on 16mm film without camera. It combines hand scratched animation with real tiny plants and moss collected in subarctic region in... Read more »
Mox Mäkelä’s films screened at Innuendo Film Festival and Girona Film Festival
Mox Mäkelä’s films will be screened in Italy and Spain. Feature-length audio-play movie Andjust (2020, in featured image) will be screened at Innuendo Film Festival, held from October 27-30 2021 in Milan, Italy. Short film aback (2021) is included in… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic screened in Cambodia, Azerbaijan, and Lithuania
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic keeps traveling. The short documentary film was recently screened at Chaktomuk Short Film Festival, held in Cambodia from October 22-27 2021. Next screenings take place in DokuBaku International Documentary Film Festival, held from November 3-7 2021… Read more »