The Ursula Blickle Video Archive in Belvedere Museum, Vienna, shows a series of screenings of Finnish video art. The screenings are curated collaboratively by featured artist David Muth and Belvedere 21, and the first one takes place on Thursday, January… Read more »
Finnish short films in the Nordic Competition of Minimalen Short Film Festival
Risto-Pekka Blom’s I Am the Human Thy God (2019), Azar Saiyar’s Tell Me (2019), Patrik Söderlund’s Realms (2018), and Elli Vuorinen’s Still Lives were selected for the Nordic Competition of Minimalen Short Film Festival, held from January 21–26 in Trondheim,… Read more »
New artist videos & experimental films in our online archive / January 20
Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Elina Brotherus: Der Lauf der Dinge (2017, 01:18) After Fischli/Weiss, Der Lauf der Dinge, 1987 Elina Brotherus: Mirror Piece (2015, 02:04) After the original… Read more »
New documentaries, animations, & installations in our online archive / January 20
Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Documentary films and videos Jan Ijäs: Absolute Street (2019, 03:28) Samuel Beckett made a single work for projected cinema. The film was shot in… Read more »
Meet the Artist: Sepideh Rahaa
Sepideh Rahaa (b. 1981) works with installation, performance, painting, and video art, and has also worked on multiple interdisciplinary and research projects. Her video works are meditations on place and human experience. Through recounted personal histories, she constructs intimate narratives… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s Akiya will have its world premiere at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, Forum Expanded
Jonna Kina’s new short film Akiya (2020) will have its World Premiere in the Forum Expanded strand of the 70th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), distributed by AV-arkki. The 70th Berlin International Film Festival takes place from February 20 to… Read more »
Several Finnish short films at IFF Rotterdam
Several Finnish short films found again their way to the official selection of IFF Rotterdam, held from January 22 to February 2. Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 4 New York, New York (2019, in featured image), Jaakko Pallasvuo’s Hole (2019) were… Read more »
Demon Salvador
Anneli Nygren
New work
Nummenmäki Vampires, band from notorious suburb of Turku, Finland, present their song Demon Salvador.
Read more »Carolin Koss’s Copper Mountains awarded in the Best Music category at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Film Festival, India
Carolin Koss’s mid-length documentary film Copper Mountains (2018) was awarded in the Best Music category at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Film Festival, India. The festival was held in the National Film Archive of India from December 29–30 2019. The music is… Read more »
Sami van Ingen’s Flame at Prague Short Films Festival
Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) will be screened at Prague Short Films Festival, held from January 22–26 in Czech Republic. Flame is included in the experimental Labo programme, screened on Wednesday, January 22, at 20:30, and on Saturday, January 24,… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s and Pilvi Takala’s short films picked for the international competition of the 33rd Stuttgarter Filmwinter
Anssi Kasitonni’s Sakke (2019) and Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker (2019) were selected for the international short film competition of the 33rd Stuttgarter Filmwinter, held from January 16–19 in Germany. Sakke will be screened in the International Competition Short Films 5… Read more »
Sasha Huber’s solo exhibition Agassiz (All) Over in Galleri Image, Aarhus
Sasha Huber’s solo exhibition Agassiz (All) Over is open from January 10 to March 01 in Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark. Galleri Image was the first gallery in Scandinavia specialised in Photography. AGASSIZ (ALL) OVER by Sasha Huber is an exhibition presenting… Read more »
Under Pressure
Martta Tuomaala
New work
What does it take to be a feminist today? Under Pressure deals with intersectionality and the complexity of privileges and power relations. In the artwork, statistical facts about discrimination against women in Finland are intertwined with metaphorical and fictional storytelling based on real life situations. The... Read more »
Jonne59 at Baby Exhibition
Anneli Nygren
New work
Rockstar and YouTuber Jonne 59 visits a baby themed exhibition, exhibition of childless artists discussing "baby" as a cultural phenomenon.
Read more »Happy Holidays!
AV-arkki’s staff and board wish all of our friends Season’s Greetings. Our office is closed for the holidays and reopens on January 7. Photo: Elina Brotherus: Forest Event (2018)
AV-arkki has acquired several moving image works by Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl and Elina Brotherus
AV-arkki has acquired several moving image works by Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl and Elina Brotherus in the distribution archive. Together, they offer two different approaches to the union of performance art and moving image. Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl – Meditations on time, movement, and… Read more »
Envy Interviews
Ninni Kaminen
New work
Snow White interviews random people about "envy" in the streets of Rio de Janeiro.
Read more »Black, Red, White Diaries (short)
Ninni Kaminen
New work
One has hair black as ebony tree, other skin white as snow. Video art piece about Cross-generational experiences, gender, sexuality, black and white. How can Snow Whites rewrite, reinterpret and mess -up the messed up story.
Read more »Meet the Artist: Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl
Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl (b.1948), one of the first Finnish media artists, works with video, performance and sculpture. She studied fine arts in Dusseldorf and has lived and worked in Germany for many years. Her video works are often portrait-like meditations on… Read more »
Patrik Söderlund’s Realms at Bucharest Short Film Festival
Patrik Söderlund’s Realms (2018) will be screened at the Bucharest Short Film Festival, held from December 14-20, in Bucharest, Romania. The screening of Realms takes place on Tuesday, December 17, in the experimental programme screening at 19:00. A short film… Read more »
The Killing of Čáhcerávga
Miracle Workers Collective
New work
Miracle Workers Collective’s film work The Killing of Čáhcerávga (2020) is a collision of five different short films that, together, tell a disjointed, communal narrative. Employing a call-and-response strategy, the film expresses a politicised dialogue around indigeneity, movement, and migration in... Read more »
AV-arkki’s Distribution Catalogue for 2019–2020 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 2019–2020 is intended for professional preview. The catalogue is distributed via AV-arkki’s international distribution programme for professional audiences in numerous events, film… Read more »
New artist videos & animations in our online archive / December 2019
Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Petteri Cederberg: Median life and / or death (2019, 05:24, in featured image) Hand drawn stop-motion animation that contemplates both the uniqueness and the averageness… Read more »
New documentaries & installations in our online archive / December 2019
Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Maija Blåfield: The Fantastic (2020, 29:59, in featured image) The Fantastic is a film about imagination and encountering the unknown. Former North Koreans recount… Read more »
Saara Ekström’s Body All Eyes competing at Bogoshorts – Bogotá Short Film Festival
Saara Ekström’s Body All Eyes (2018) will compete at Bogoshorts – Bogotá Short Film Festival, held from December 3–10 in Bogotá, Colombia. Body All Eyes is included in the “International Competition Experimental” programme, screened on Thursday, December 5, at 15:00,… Read more »
Meet the Artist: Pasi Autio
Pasi Autio (b.1974) works with photography, moving image and installation. He has a MA in Fine Art Photography from Aalto University, and his works often deal with the inner world of thoughts and its relation to external reality. We discussed… Read more »
Shifting
Anna Nykyri
New work
“Shifting” is a short documentary dance film of three women, whose number one goal in life has been to work as a professional dancer in New York. Due to an injury, lack of resources and competitiveness of the field, their dreams are shifting into others. Yet, dance is still present in their life, because... Read more »
Black & White
Marika Orenius
New work
Black & White is an essayistic and self reflective video. In her workspace, the artist contemplates her idealism and possibilities to influence as an individual and an artist. Behind the main scene, there is a young activist ready to die for her idea. The historical reference assimilates dangers of totalitarian... Read more »
The Savokasälpä – Experimental Music and Film from Finland tour in St. Petersburg and Moscow
The Savokasälpä – Experimental Music and Film from Finland tour presents the work of the film director, artist and musician Mika Taanila and composer, musician and media artist Anton Nikkilä from different stages of their careers – both their individual… Read more »
Orange Event by Elina Brotherus screened at Magic Lantern Film Festival, MAXXI Museum, Rome
Elina Brotherus’s Orange Event (2017) will be screened at Magic Lantern Film Festival, held as a part of the Video Art Week of MAXXI museum of contemporary art in Rome. The festival takes place on Saturday, November 23. Orange Event… Read more »