Two works by Laura Horelli, Namibia Today (2018) and Uutisten aika (2019) are shown in a joint exhibition Black Women, Art and Resistance | Changes in Direction, curated by Heidi Brunnschweiler for Gallery E-Werk, Freiburg, from February 23 to April 14. In… Read more »
Picturing a Micropolis: 96100-97690
Panu Johansson
New work
This film is a city symphony depicting Rovaniemi, the capital of Finnish Lapland. It is also an entity in which all the details captured on film - images, memories, seasons and neighbourhoods - are swarmed to the viewers retina as an intense kinetic stream.
Read more »When We Are Nothing Left
Milja Viita
New work
A minimalist film about time, infinity and life cycle, created in the spirit of William Blake. The film is shot and hand processed at the Film Farm in Ontario, Canada, during the summer 2018.
Read more »Copper Mountains
Carolin Koss
New work
During a trip to the small town of Karabash by the Ural mountains, artist and filmmaker Carolin Koss felt compelled to capture the shocking effects of environmental pollution caused by excessive industrial exploitation. She started interviewing people, who call this seemingly post-apocalyptic place home. On her journey... Read more »
Realms
Patrik Söderlund
New work
A short film about geological epochs, kingdoms of life and mass extinctions, Realms voyages through deep time from the primeval ocean to the post-human future.
Read more »Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth at Equilibrio Festival, Rome
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth (2018) is screened at Equilibrio Festival 2019, entitled “Northen Lights in Rome” dedicated to north-European countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) is the crowning event of a three-year project celebrating European contemporary dance… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s and Marja Helander’s short films at Finnish Film Days, Budapest
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene (2017) and Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth (2018) are screened at the traditional Finnish Film Days, organized by FinnAgora and held in Toldi film theater, Budapest, from February 6–10. Kina’s and Helander’s short… Read more »
Meet the Artist: Marika Orenius
Reflecting the female bodily experience and perspective has always been the starting point in Marika Orenius‘s video art and photography. During the past few years, however, she has consciously elaborated her style and methods towards revisiting the pre-existing and fragmented… Read more »
Erkka Nissinen’s videos in the Nordic House in the Faroe Islands
A selection of Erkka Nissinen’s videos are on view in the Video Video series of the Nordic House in the Faroe Islands from February 4–17. The exhibition is installed in Dansistovan. The selection includes the following works: The Social Construction… Read more »
Still Lives
Elli Vuorinen
New work
The concept of busy stillness is explored from various standpoints as museum artefacts from all around the world reflect on the mundane challenges of modern life.
Read more »Laura Horelli’s Uutisten aika (Newstime) screened at Berlinale Forum Expanded
Laura Horelli’s Uutisten aika (Newstime, 2019) will be screened at Berlinale Forum Expanded, which marked the world premiere also for Horelli’s earlier works Jokinen (2016) and Namibia Today (2018). Berlinale Forum Expanded will be held from February 7–17. The screenings… Read more »
Saara Ekström’s Amplifier in the Videonale.17 exhibition
Saara Ekström’s Amplifier (2017) is among 29 art works included in the exhibition “Refracted Realities” of Videonale.17 – Festival for Video and Time-Based Arts. The exhibition is open from February 21 to April 14 in Kunstmuseum Bonn. Amplifier is an experimental short… Read more »
Mika Taanila’s Physical Ring exhibited at Club Transmediale Festival
Mika Taanila’s Physical Ring (2002) is included in the 20th anniversary exhibition of Club Transmediale Festival, “Persisting Realities“, curated by Nicole Gringas and Eric Mattson. The exhibition is open from January 25 to March 17 in Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien,… Read more »
Marja Helander’s, Sami van Ingen’s, & Pilvi Takala’s works in the Nordic Competition of Minimalen SFF
Marja Helander’s Eatnanvuloš Lottit – Birds in the Earth (2018), Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018), and Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker (2019) were selected in the Nordic Competition of Minimalen Short Film Festival, held from January 22–27 in Trondheim, Norway. Marja Helander‘s Birds… Read more »
Footnote #03: Gold & Clouds
David Muth
New work
According to the French poststructuralist philosopher Jean Baudrillard, everyday life unfolds in a system of signs, a "car" for example implies "driving pleasure", "progress", or "independence". The video piece “Footnote #03: Gold & Clouds” aims to reflect on the object “aircraft”: a golden plane... Read more »
The Origins : Fragments of the Hunt
Mikko Ijäs
New work
The Origins shows how human imagination and art evolved due to the ancient art of persistence hunting (running and tracking down animals). The film follows the lives of the Kalahari San and Mexican Raramuri people. The film is about the origins of human visual and ceremonial culture and about the struggles of the last... Read more »
Meet the Artist: Marko Lampisuo
Landscape is not just a background but a protagonist in Marko Lampisuo‘s (born in 1970) video works. He does not portray nature per se but as repeated and revisited via an old television set over and over again. Lampisuo’s most… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Saladdin Castique in the international competition of 32. Stuttgarter Filmwinter
Anssi Kasitonni’s Saladdin Castique (2019) was selected for the international competition of 32. Stuttgarter Filmwinter. The Festival for Expanded Media is held from January 17–20. Saladdin Castique is screened on Friday, January 18, at 19:00 in International Competition 2, FITZ! Cinema Previously, Saladdin… Read more »
A versatile selection of Finnish media art at international film festival Rotterdam
Works by Pilvi Takala, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Antti Jussila, and Jari Kallio, Patrik Söderlund, Mika Taanila, and Marja Helander are included in the programme of International Film Festival Rotterdam, held from January 23 – February 3. Established in 1971 and known for… Read more »
Holding Clouds
Sara Pathirane
New work
Holding Clouds depicts a choreography on Huangshan, the Yellow Mountain in China. The mount Huang is famous from the old Chinese shan shui – mountain-water ink paintings. Still now the landscape gathers people to witness it. The view itself is often covered in clouds, only a peak of a mountain hovering in the sight.... Read more »
Attempt to Push a Mountain
Sara Pathirane
New work
A gesture on camera. The fog covers the landscape making it flat. The distant mountain seems to be near. The artist tries to push it but fails. The film is shot in China on Huangshan, the Yellow Mountain famous from classical paintings. Thousands of photographs are taken there every day even when the view is covered in fog.... Read more »
The Trophy
Nina Lassila
New work
A beautifully dressed woman is seen from different perspectives and angles. As a sculpture, an object. She is clearly a trophy. A little later the protagonist runs into the image and stops and looks back at us. She yells and runs away along the road and disappears. What or who is the woman running from? And why?
Read more »And the Worst Thing Is You Do It to Yourself
Iona Roisin
New work
A monologue fades in an out over footage of repetitive domestic activities. The monologue recalls hazily, then lapses into abstraction. Gradually one begins to connect to a post-assault narrative. And the worst thing is you do it to yourself is about the distrust of memory in relation to certain kinds of subjects in which... Read more »
People Assume I'm an Only Child
Iona Roisin
New work
People assume I’m an only child uses the relationship between the filmmaker and her autistic younger brother to explore consent and culpability, and the responsibility to one’s subject in the wider context of art making. It is about the problems of making work of this nature; not only personal work, but work in... Read more »
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Marcus Lerviks
New work
How to visualize a memory? In film scenes we often see blurred double-exposed images that tend to confuse the viewer more than give the feeling of memory. In this video work, the artist visualises a special place from his childhood without the use of such standardized effects. The place in question is... Read more »
The Eternal Sleep of The Man
Sami Sänpäkkilä Ansku Nousiainen
New work
The Eternal Sleep of the Man is a collaborative film by Sami Sänpäkkilä and Anna-Mari Nousiainen. The film depicts magical realism and seeks solace in our urban environment. In the passage titled #suomineito (Finnish maiden) a woman in blue clothes and blue hair hangs upside down from a rope in a tree. In the... Read more »
Meet the Artist: Heidi Tikka
Heidi Tikka (born in 1959) is a Finnish visual artist who lives and works in Helsinki. Her installations and participatory projects are the result of what she calls a curiosity-driven practice. “I’m really interested in experimenting with technology and different… Read more »
AV-ARKKI’S DISTRIBUTION CATALOGUE FOR 2018–2019 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 2018–2019 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 »
FinnCycling-Soumi-Perkele! Volume 2
Martta Tuomaala
New work
Perkele is a cursing word in Finnish and refers to the devil. Suomi means Finland in Finnish, but Soumi means absolutely nothing. FinnCycling-Soumi-Perkele! dives into the dark side of Finland. It is a combination of politics, dark humour and protest rap in a form of an indoor cycling exercise: one woman’s gritty... Read more »
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth selected for the Official Short Film Section of Sundance FF
Marja Helander’s Eatnanvuloš Lottit – Birds in the Earth (2018) was picked through AV-arkki’s distribution among 20 international short films competing in the Official Short Film Section of Sundance Film Festival, held from January 24 to February 3 in Park City, Utah…. Read more »