“Meet the Artist” is AV-arkki’s new series of interviews with our artists. We start our monthly concept with an interview with Kalle Nio, a visual artist and a co-founder of WHS, a collective producing new circus and visual theatre. Kalle Nio… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 2 Wreck (2016) and Jani Ruscica’s Conversation in Pieces (2016) will be screened at the International Festival for Ethnographic Film in Québec, Canada. The 11th edition of the festival is held from 29.3.–13.4. Both films will… Read more »
Liinu Grönlund’s short film It Could Have Been will have its world festival premiere in the international competition of the 35th Busan International Short Film Festival, held from April 24–29 in South Korea. It could have been is a video… Read more »
Timo Wright’s Solace (2017) was picked for the competition selection of 20minmax International Short Film Festival, held from April 20–28 in Ingolstadt, Germany. The film will be screened on Thursday, April 26, at 20:00 in Audi Programmkino. Solace is an… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 1 Money (2017) was selected for the European Competition of Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, held from April 11–15 in Netherlands. Ijäs’s short documentary film is included in the competition programme “Damage Control”, screened on… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Saladdin Castique (2018) and Laura Horelli’s Namibia Today (2018) are selected for the official competitions of International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. Held for the 64th time from May 3–8, Oberhausen is one of the oldest short film festivals… Read more »
Helena Öst’s A Home in Memory (2016) will be screened at the 15th World Film Festival, held in the Estonian National Museum, Tartu, from March 19–23. The screening of Öst’s film takes place on Friday, March 23, at 15:15. A… Read more »
Jaana Kokko’s What There Is to See travels the world from Romania to Japan. The film is selected for the international competition selections of both Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, held from 29.3.–1.4., and Japan Media Arts Festival, held in… Read more »
Hannaleena Hauru’s Mercy All the Way is screened at the International Short Film Week Regensburg, held from March 14–21. The film is included in the special programme Powerful Women. The screenings of Mercy All the Way take place on Saturday,… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene is screened at Akbank Short Film Festival, held in Istanbul from March 19–29. The film is included in the Perspective Programme. The screening of Arr. for a Scene takes place on Thursday, March 22,… Read more »
A mid-length documentary film by Maija Blåfield, On Destruction and Preservation (2018), will have its world festival premiere in the international competition for mid-length and short documentaries at Visions du réel International Film Festival. Held in Nyon, Switzerland, from April 13–21, the festival is one of the most… Read more »
Jaakko Pallasvuo’s Filter (2017) was screened at Onion City Film Festival. Held in Chicago from March 8–11, Onion City is one of the premiere international festivals exclusively devoted to experimental film and video. Filter had its world festival premiere at New… Read more »
Public lecture by Gerard Byrne Thursday, March 8, 2018 – 6 – 8 pm Exhibition Laboratory, Merimiehenkatu 36, Helsinki Visually rich and intellectually complex, the work of Gerard Byrne in photography, film, theatre and multi-screen installation examines the slippage between… Read more »
THE 48th TAMPERE FILM festival is held between March 7 and 11. The oldest and largest short film festival in the Nordic countries is AV-arkki’s main associate in Finland. THE NATIONAL COMPETITION OF TAMPERE FILM FESTIVAL INCLUDES SEVERAL SHORT FILMS BY AV-ARKKI’S… Read more »
Video art and experimental films by Tuomas A. Laitinen and Mika Taanila are included in the third edition of OLHO, held in Cineteatro São Luiz, Fortaleza from 28.2.–1.3. and in the Cinemateca of Museu de Arte Moderna of Rio de… Read more »
The robust charm of the original 1970s interiors of Hanasaari Cultural centre, a femme fatale, president Kekkonen - these are the ingredients for a mysterious encounter at the Baltic Sea.
Read more »Mika Taanila’s A Physical Ring (2002) is screened in OBORO, A centre dedicated to production and presentation of art, contemporary practices and new media, in Montréal from February 3–23, in the exhibition Spectres, Waves and Modulations. Spectres, ondes et modulations (Spectres, Waves… Read more »
Laura Horelli’s new video Namibia Today (2018) will have its World Premiere at Berlinale Forum Expanded. The 13th Forum Expanded Programme opens at the Akademie der Künste on Hanseatenweg on February 14 under the title “A Mechanism Capable of Changing Itself”…. Read more »
Maarit Suomi-Väänänen’s Minispectacles As Nice as Pies (2017), Marja Viitahuhta’s The Inland Sea (2017), and Timo Wright’s Embrace (2016) were selected in the international short film competition of the Stuttgarter Filmwinter; Jukka Silokunnas’s Vanishing Point (2017) competes in the 2… Read more »
Five stories on destruction and preservation. The narration ranges from essay film to direct documentary while stories vary from a sex scene of fungi to a sightseeing tour into the climate change in the arctic Svalbard.
Read more »Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene (2017) will be screened at Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, held from February 9–25 in Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. Established in 2009, the festival combines exhibitions, screenings, live performances, and talk sessions…. Read more »
Timo Wright’s Ex Nihilo (2017) will be screened at Slamdance Film Festival, held in Park City, Utah, from January 19–25. The festival is a showcase for raw and innovative filmmaking self governed. Slamdance marks the world festival premiere for the… Read more »
Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018), Henna-Riikka Halonen’s Placeholder (2017), and Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene (2017) are included in the official selection of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), held from January 24 to February 4. Sami van Ingen’s… Read more »
Short films by Henna-Riikka Halonen, Hannaleena Hauru, Mika Taanila, and Helena Öst are selected to the Nordic Short Film Competition of Minimalen Short Film Festival, held in Trondheim from January 23–28. Mika Taanila‘s Delay of Game (2017) is included in the… Read more »