Salla Tykkä’s Lasso (2000) is screened in VISITE film programme at the cultural centre Het Bos, Antwerpen, Belgium from August 11–19. Visite is a multi-day film festival in the presence of the makers. The festival has invited nine artists to present their… Read more »
Jukka Silokunnas’s Vanishing Point at Open-Air Film Fest Weiterstadt
Jukka Silokunnas’s Vanishing Point (2017) is screened at Open-Air Film Fest Weiterstadt, held from August 10–14. The screening of Vanishing Point takes place on Sunday, August 13, at 21:30. When the artist was a kid they used to traveler a lot with… Read more »
Marikki Hakola’s The Time Is Right for installed at Summerhall, Edinburgh
Marikki Hakola’s installation The Time Is Right for… (1984) is in view in the namesake exhibition in Summerhall, Edinburgh, from August 2 to September 24. Part of Summerhall’s 2017 Edinburgh Festival Programme, the exhibition is produced by European Women’s Video Art… Read more »
Minna Rainio’s and Mark Roberts’s Entangled in the international competition of Filmski Festival, Montenegro
A short documentary film by Minna Rainio and Mark Roberts, Entangled (2016) is competing at Filmski Festival, held in Herceg Novi, Monte Negro, from August 1–7. The screening of Entangled takes place on Sunday, August 6, at 21:00. Entangled illuminates… Read more »
AV-arkki’s office is closed 12.7.–30.7.
Our office is closed 12.7.–30.7. due to our summer vacations AV-arkki’s staff is out of office the following dates: Archive coordinator Vesa Puhakka 26.6.–31.7. Director Hanna Maria Anttila 1.–31.7. Programme coordinator Tytti Rantanen 10.7.–3.8. Assistant Vincent Weckström 12.7.–2.8. We… Read more »
Pilvi Takala’s The Committee and Salla Tykkä’s Giant screened at Cample Line, Scotland
Pilvi Takala’s The Committee (2014) and Salla Tykkä’s Giant (2014) are screened at Cample Line, Scotland. Cample Line is an independent arts organisation dedicated to presenting thought-provoking international contemporary arts for residents of the region and visitors from further afield. Takala’s… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Masa and Finnish Midsummer 2169 in view in Liverpool and Poznan
Anssi Kasitonni’s videos Masa (2009) and Finnish Midsummer 2169 (2016) travel this summer to Liverpool, UK, and Poznań, Poland. Masa is installed in the exhibition called Abacus. The exhibition is open from July 27 to October 1 in Bluecoat, Liverpool…. Read more »
Tellervo Kalleinen, Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Jaakko Pallasvuo and MSL featured at Cure Park, NL
The summer program of Cure Park, Amsterdam features an installation by Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen and a short film by Jaakko Pallasvuo and MSL. Centered around the Bostheater, Cure Park brings together over 30 artists, creatives and thinkers with audiences… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no.1 Money, no. 2 Wreck, and no. 3 Boom at FID Marseille
Three short documentaries from Jan Ijäs’s seven-part Waste series are screened at FID Marseille. The 28th edition of the Marseille International Film Festival is held from July 11–17. The festival marks the world premiere for Waste no. 1 Money (2017)… Read more »
Mika Taanila’s The World at Experimental Video & Film Festival, Seoul
Mika Taanila’s short film The World (2017) will be screened at EXIS – Experimental Video & Film Festival, Seoul. The annual festival for artist’s cinema, experimental film and video will be held from July 13–20 in South Korea. Premiered at… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s, Jonna Kina’s and Mika Taanila’s short films in the international competition of Nordisk Panorama
Three short films, Jan Ijäs’s Social Connection (2016), Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene (2017) and Mika Taanila’s The World (2017), have been selected for the Best Nordic Short Film Competition of Nordisk Panorama through AV-arkki’s distribution. Founded in 1990, Nordisk Panorama is… Read more »
Minispectacles As Nice As Pies
Maarit Suomi-Väänänen
New work
Minispectacles As Nice As Pies follows North African refugees making Karelian Pies, Finnish national food, for the first time. In Rally English and in Easy English with onomatopoeia. Accessibility with applied audio description (by Anu Aaltonen and Heikki Ekola) and experimental... Read more »
Hot or Not
Tero Puha
New work
In the video a Finnish man is preparing for a date. He needs your help! How would you rate his eyes? What about his lips? Which sunglasses should he choose? Should he powder his face or not? Come and choose the best options!
Read more »Solsidan 1-4
Annette Arlander
New work
One winter, during the artist's stay at Solsidan, a suburb of Stockholm, she recorded four views every morning that she spent in the old summerhouse from October to May (12.10.2015‐29.5.2016), trying to make the diagonal pine tree trunk, the low juniper and the branch of an oak tree the main performers, besides her... Read more »
Swinging at Solsidan
Annette Arlander
New work
One winter, during my stay at Solsidan, a suburb of Stockholm, I recorded my swinging every morning that I spent in the old summerhouse from October to May (12.10.2015‐29.5.2016).
Read more »Maarit Suomi-Väänänen’s Minispectacles As Nice as Pies at MODEM, Hungary
The most recent part of Maarit Suomi-Väänänen’s ongoing series Minispectacles is installed in the exhibition Receptors at MODEM, Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen, Hungary. The exhibition is open from June 24, 2017 to January 5, 2018. The exhibition… Read more »
Pink Twins’s Overlook in competition at Melbourne International Animation Festival
Pink Twins’s Overlook (2017) is screened in the international competition of Melbourne International Animation Festival, held from June 18–25. The festival is Australia’s largest animation festival. Overlook competes in the Installation Animation programme #2 titled “Colourful Escapes”. Overlook (2017) had… Read more »
A Home in Memory
Helena Öst
New work
A home in Memory examines the relationship between identity and the surrounding space. What is it like to abandon a home which carries traces from several generations? The short film shows an almost 300 m2 apartment in the very centre of Helsinki and how it is being emptied, picture by picture. Visually, the film consists... Read more »
Twin Cities
Lauri Astala
New work
Twin Cities evolves into two planet cities rotating on two screens. The viewer appears to float like in a satellite between the planets. The Korean soundtrack, as if picked up from radio aether, examines urban experience, the observer's reality and cultural distance. The texts are quotes from Finnish author Leena Krohn's... Read more »
Catalogue Dialogue
Azar Saiyar
New work
Catalogue Dialogue is a filmic collage that recycles as its material pictures from mail order fashion catalogues and sounds of whales and ocean found from free sound archives.
Read more »Recollection
Heidi Romo
New work
The topic of the work is the transience of life. A sense of loss is present at the most valuable moments of our lives. the moments we spend with our beloved. A moment turns into a memory, a child matures, we all grow old. The video is based on two recollections. Me as a child rowing a boat every summer. A terrible car... Read more »
It Could Have Been
Liinu Grönlund
New work
It could have been is a video essay combining personal notes and collected ideas about the current state of the world. Rats wander around artists' studio and over pages of books. In the center is a thought that when humans disappear from the Earth, rats might take our place as the ruling species.
Read more »A Way Out of This Image
Anu Pennanen
New work
'Sortir de cette image', filmed at Les Halles metro station in Paris, describes a dense intersection of images and crowds. Archival images, architectural drawings, films shot by local people, their interviews and an imaginary architectural model present us interpretations of the historical center of commerce on its way... Read more »
Mother’s Nerves
Arja Kärkkäinen
New work
Mother’s Nerves is a little story about fitting in, about a boy who is ignored at home. He cannot find a reason for his mother’s cold behaviour, so he concludes that he himself is to blame. It would be better not to be at all than to be in the way.
Read more »12 Yellow Stars
Henna-Riikka Halonen
New work
A surrealist film about walls and borders. In the story, a girl and a boy find themselves in a strange new world while a man and a woman are struggling with separation, burdened by both the weight and the lightness of words. Based on a comic book The Raspberry Ice Cream War, published by the European Union in 1996.
Read more »Jan Ijäs’s Social Connection selected in the international competition of Ciné de Huesca
Jan Ijäs’s Social Connection (2016) has been selected in the international competition of Ciné de Huesca, one of the oldest short film festival in Spain. The 45th edition of the festival is held from June 9–17. The dialogue of Social… Read more »
Terike Haapoja’s exhibition Closed Circuit – Open Duration at Chronus Art Center, Shanghai
Terike Haapoja’s exhibition Closed Circuit – Open Duration is open at Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, from 3.6.–3.9. Established in 2013, Chronus Art Center (CAC) is China’s first nonprofit art organization dedicated to the presentation, research, creation and scholarship of media art. Closed… Read more »
Meeting Place
Pauliina Salminen
New work
Neighbours meet each other while crossing a square. A video based on a performance by Scheherazade Zambrano Orozco with the inhabitants of Canet neighbourhood in Marseilles.
Read more »At a Stop
Pauliina Salminen
New work
Time stands still while waiting at a busstop. A video based on a performance by Scheherazade Zambrano Orozco with the inhabitants of Canet neighbourhood in Marseilles.
Read more »What There Is to See
Jaana Kokko
New work
'What There Is to See' is a chain of associations of sorts. The film could ask, for example: How would the urban landscape look like, if our decisions would be based on touch, sound, temperature or air pressure instead of visual appearance? The starting point for the film is the pioneer of romantic landscape painting,... Read more »