Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic will be screened at Luxembourg City Film Festival, held as a hybrid event from March 4–14. The screening, taking place on Friday, March 12 in Ciné Utopia, and on Saturday, March 13 online, is a collaboration… Read more »
Small town girl (escape sketches)
Aino Aksenja
New work
There was a town, two peaks and a river splitting the valley. There were escape plans, that one after another proved ineffective. The town is an endless labyrinth, confined only by the river playing the secondary lead. The protagonist is a small town girl who tries to turn escaping into a game.
Read more »Flowers, Those That Fall
Aino Aksenja
New work
This piece has three parts: Vernal equinox, where the protagonist plays "Loves me, loves me not"; Autumnal equinox, where she has given up the game and is burning lantern flowers with a lighter; and Solstice, a flowing collection of moving images where flowers, water and death play a part. Flowers, those that fall is a... Read more »
Waltz
Aino Aksenja
New work
Waltz is a recording of a performance without an audience made in a residency in Detroit. In it I hear my wedding waltz for the first time since getting divorced. There was only one take. The waltz is performed by Johanna Tarkkanen, who originally composed it for my wedding and played it there.
Read more »Procession
Aino Aksenja
New work
Procession speaks about the loss of a loved one and the change that it brings about. The work shows two scenes side by side: a ritual recorded at the artist’s grandmother’s sickbed, where the artist is trying to turn back time, and a stop motion animation of a room in a dollhouse, slowly emptying. In the... Read more »
An online screening programme to celebrate a new publication on Laura Horelli’s recent films
Archive Books is hosting an online screening programme to celebrate a new publication on Laura Horelli’s recent films. Changes in Direction – a Journal will be published in March 2021. Changes in Direction – a Journal provides multivocal and transnational African-European… Read more »
Dreamscapes
Marja Viitahuhta
New work
Nieguid Duovdagat is an experimental, minimalist and hypnotic music video. Ánnámáret's yoik, Ilkka Heinonen's jouhikko (finnish bowed lyre) and Turkka Inkilä's electronic music combine with the effected image of the winter landscape created by Marja Viitahuhta. In the video, the nature and... Read more »
Meet the Artist – Arja Kärkkäinen
Arja Kärkkäinen (b.1986) is a Helsinki based visual artist, who works mainly with sculpture and moving image. We sat down to talk about office work, communication issues specific to Finnish culture, and the ignorance related to consumerism. Arja Kärkkäinen makes… Read more »
Pilvi Takala’s If Your Heart Wants It (Remix) at Rencontres Internationales, Paris
Pilvi Takala’s If Your Heart Wants It (Remix) (2020) will be screened at Rencontres Internationales, held as a hybrid festival in Paris and online from February 23–28. If Your Heart Wants It (Remix) is included in the screening L’homme machine… Read more »
Slicing
Sari Palosaari
New work
The perception of the space in the image changes with one gesture.
Read more »Surfacing
Sari Palosaari
New work
Attraction is at play between the objects.
Read more »Marko Lampisuo, Marjo Levlin, Sari Palosaari, and Pauliina Salminen in a collaborative exhibition Déplacer l’horizon in Marseille
Marko Lampisuo, Marjo Levlin, Sari Palosaari, and Pauliina Salminen are the Finnish artists participating in Déplacer l’horizon, a collaborative exhibition project between Helsinki, Marseille, and Rabat. Included in the programme of Manifesta 13 biennial, the exhibition was postponed from Autumn… Read more »
Master Longclaws
Reija Meriläinen
New work
Master Longclaws tells the story of an itch that needs scratching. In it, a shape- and nameshifting nail artist Misster Longclaus is looking for intimacy in all the wrong places.
Read more »Please Leave a Message After the Tone
Risto-Pekka Blom
New work
Calls go to the voice mail. Lonely cars and street lights roam the highway by night. People at the street view are connected by threads. The patient leads a perfect life. Please leave a message after the tone is a story about disconnection, about the struggle with real life encounters and about living outside of your own... Read more »
Jonna Kina’s new diptych film After Life followed by Red Impasto Jar selected for Berlinale Forum Expanded
Jonna Kina’s new cinematic work After Life followed by Red Impasto Jar (2021) was selected for Berlinale Forum Expanded. The work is a composition of two separate films exploring transcendental issues through illegal excavations of tombs – a phenomenon faced… Read more »
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth screened at Available Light Film Festival, Yukon
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth (2018) will be screened at Available Light Film Festival, held in Yukon, Canada, from February 5–22. The festival will be arranged as a hybrid of on-site and online screenings. Helander’s short film is included… Read more »
New artists’ moving image in our online archive / January 2021
Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Camille Auer: Seepage (2020, 33:27) The outer limits of a body are porous. We continuously seep into our surroundings and they seep into us…. Read more »
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic in a screening programme Signals and Circuits
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic (2020) is included in a screening programme Signals and Circuits, on view in VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland until January 31 2021. The screening was previously presented at Cork International Film Festival in… Read more »
Entangled - ME & HAIR
Sepideh Rahaa
New work
Entangled - ME & HAIR is produced around the subject of hair as part of an ongoing project where Rahaa narrates a story of hair, childhood and life: How we connect or disconnect based on our appearances in society, the way we look and the way our hair is. How much one may control their hair and conform to the norms to... Read more »
Meet the artist – Jarkko Räsänen
Jarkko Räsänen (b.1984) works with photography, moving image and sound art. Recently he has moved towards computer-based, algorithmic visual works using self-made softwares, including moving image and live vj performances. We discussed his most recent video works and his working… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic awarded as the Best Nordic Film at Minimalen Short Film Festival
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) was awarded as the Best Nordic Film at the 33rd Minimalen Short Film Festival, held online from January 12–17. The jury states: “The film strikes a beautiful balance between imagination, reality and what we choose… Read more »
Several shorts by our artists in the Nordic Competition of Minimalen Short Film Festival
The Nordic Competition of the 33rd Minimalen Short Film Festival includes several short films by our artists. The Norwegian festival is held online from January 12–17 2021. Niina Suominen’s experimental animation What Time Is? (2020) and Maija Blåfield’s award-winning documentary… Read more »
Pilvi Takala’s If Your Heart Wants It (Remix) in the international short film competition of Stuttgart Filmwinter
Pilvi Takala’s If Your Heart Wants It (Remix) (2020) was selected for the international short film competition of Stuttgarter Filmwinter, held online from January 6–20 2021. Takala’s film is included in the International Short Film Competition 3, available from January… Read more »
Looking for Mr. Blue
Mia Mäkelä
New work
Looking for Mr. Blue is an experimental documentary-animation that reflects on the sensorial and cultural experiences of a GPS-tracked Fennoscandian lesser White-fronted goose on his migration route across Europe. What landmarks might Mr. Blue recognize and remember? What might the world look and taste like from a... Read more »
Our artists’ videos in Ouroboros online film programme hosted by the Finnish Institute in Estonia
Ouroboros is an online film programme hosted by the Finnish Institute in Estonia from December 21–31 2020. You can view the programme here. Connecting the Earth’s oceans and the cosmos, the five video works included in the programme Ouroboros speak… Read more »
New artists’ moving image in our online archive / December ’20 pt II
Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Installations: Annette Arlander: With an Alder in Kaivopuisto (2018, 01:40:10) This time-lapse video is part of the project “Performing with Plants”. I sat on… Read more »
New artists’ moving image in our online archive / December ’20 pt I
Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Saara Ekström: Shadow Codex (2020, 12:30) Filmed in the empty Turku County Prison, Finland, (active between 1835–2007) Shadow Codex documents the surveillance machinery, architecture… Read more »
AV-arkki’s Distribution Catalogue for 2020-2021 is now available online!
Our catalogue offers a diverse portrait of recent single channel art works by artists and filmmakers based in Finland. AV-arkki’s Distribution Catalogue 2020-2021 is intended for professional preview. The catalogue is distributed via AV-arkki’s international distribution programme for professional audiences… Read more »
The Cleaner
Milja-Liina Moilanen
New work
The Cleaner is a depiction of a work in low-wage sector and the structures surrounding the work. What kind of attitudes will a poor woman face in her life? The Cleaner is based on the artist’s own working experiences in the cleaning industry. Taking a form of an autobiographical narrative, the video focuses on the... Read more »
Scope
Saku Soukka
New work
Scope consists of programmed photographs, texts and music. It deals with dissociative experience and fluidity of the human mind and the self. The ”I” and ”you” of the work merge into one at the beginning of the work. After that the human mind wanders, drifts, and associates unexpectedly.
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