When I was a kid we used to traveler a lot with my family. I used to Iook the changing landscape through the caravan window. Only older I realized: I changed, not the landscape.
Read more »Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 2 Wreck (2016) will have its Spanish premiere in the Short Film Programme of Punto de Vista Documentary Film Festival, held in Navarra, Pamplona, from March 6–11. Waste no. 2 Wreck was filmed in 2014 and 2015… Read more »
The 8th Cairo Video Festival, held from February 5–28, features works by Pink Twins and Johanna Lecklin. The festival programme includes the single-channel version of Pink Twins’ Parametronomicon (2015). Parametronomicon presents a model of parametric virtual life. A biomechanic organism moves,… Read more »
The programme of the prestigious International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) features four Finnish experimental short films by Mika Taanila, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Antti Jussila & Jari Kallio, Jan Ijäs, and Sasha Huber & Petri Saarikko. Held from January 25 to February… Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s History Bleeds Under Your Fingernails (2016) and Pekka Sassi’s Making Art Video (2016) are selected in the international short film competition of the 300th Stuttgarter Filmwinter, held from January 18–22. The festival programme includes also works from Maarit… Read more »
Samuli Alapuranen’s Drag Me to Kempele (2017) and Milja Viita’s Q (2016) have been selected to the Nordic Competition of Minimalen Short Film Festival, held from January 25–29 in Trondheim, Norway. Alapuranen’s Drag Me to Kempele will have its international… Read more »
I sat on the rocks in rain and performed for camera on tripod at the beach in Falmouth, Cornwall on Sunday morning 24 July 2016.
Read more »This performance for camera on tripod was recorded on the shore of lake Puula one evening in autumn 2015.
Read more »AV-arkki collaborates with Institut finlandais, Paris, in their Mobile Home 2017 project KOTI Sleepover from late January to May. Designed by Linda Bergroth, KOTI is a 100-day living installation celebrating the Finnish home. Cottages are available for guests to stay… Read more »
Inspired by Margaret Duras’ play Agatha, juxtaposing images of humans to those of animals, the film is a cinematic meditation on loss of control. Built around three disparate scenes, it sets up a sense of disorientation to heighten the possibility of inhabiting a different perspective.
Read more »The Girl Who Did Not Fall is based on an excerpt from Zoe Pilger’s novel Eat My Heart Out. The woman is doomed to fall – either in damnation or in love. Installation version also available.
Read more »The artist shot this video with single take. In the video, he empties one 400ml spray can of red paint on the wall. Graffiti is criminalized for being vandalism. At the same time, graffiti is decriminalized as contemporary art. After all, it is just paint on surface. That is the line we all draw on the wall.
Read more »A video work with spinning landscapes, where the details of the scenery blur into abstraction only to be revealed showing another location. Accompanied by a piano improvisation based on a circular pattern
Read more »An experimental time lapse short film about the stolling lights of the city traffic.
Read more »Man goes cross-country skiing from the top of the hill and comes down.
Read more »Man enters a swamp.
Read more »An asylum seeker from Afghanistan has been granted asylum in Lapland. She lives alone in empty village. In the course of four seasons, she is getting used to to live in an Ostrobothnian farm house. Soon, her relatives from Afghanistan will arrive to help her and to live in the village. The farm gets a new life.
Read more »Maarit Suomi-Väänänen’s Miniscpectacles Albuquerque Straight (2016) and Jan Ijäs’s Time Capsule (2016) are selected to International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam through AV-arkki’s distribution. Held from November 16–27, IDFA is the world’s largest documentary film festival. The films are screened at Paradocs,… Read more »
Sometimes you need to step into the unknown to confront yourself. An old Art Nouveau villa attracts a 17-year-old girl. She escapes from school’s drawing class to explore the villa more closely.
Read more »Minispectacles is a series of one-minute films, cinematic haikus. Minispectacles Good Night 25-30/100 wishes good night to North, South, West and to Speed Market. To be continued all the way to Part 100. Woman with pocket camera.
Read more »Two priests, an astrologer, a quantum physicist, a statistician, an insurer, and a sociologist debate about the notions of chance, free will, and God.
Read more »Entangled illuminates our complicity and entanglement in the lives and destinies of workers in Asian textile factories. The film examines the issue from an unusual angle, focusing on children’s clothes and experiences to make viewers uncomfortably aware of the price paid to manufacture their clothes.
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