Aarne's Window alternates between close-ups of an old man and views of a parking lot seen from a window in a highrise building, with the seasons changing. He comments on tiny events happening in the view, and these comments in turn seem to describe also his own condition.
Read more »A complete retrospective of Maarit Suomi-Väänänen‘s works is shown at Experiments in Cinema, held April 5—10 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The festival marks the U.S. premiere for Log Head (2015) and the world premiere for Minispectacles 19—24: Albuquerque Straight (2016),… Read more »
A pilgrimage is a meditative walk where you can achieve peace of mind and the flow of good life. You leave all your daily routines behind. The Hindu pilgrimage is a living tradition in the art of walking.
Read more »Minispectacles is a series of one minute works, cinematic haikus. Albuquerque Straight visits a man and a lynx on the Route 66. To be continued all the way to Part 100. Woman with a pocket camera.
Read more »Wreck (Lampedusa, Italy, 2015) was filmed in 2014 and 2015 in the graveyard for refugee boats on the Italian island of Lampedusa. It is a story about how the value of garbage and rubbish can surprisingly change.
Read more »A camera-less lettrist film about fear of flying, security checks and time zones. After returning from a trip to Tokyo, the protagonist is stuck at a hotel nearby the Helsinki airport. The use of various technical devices, slivers the time-management and modifies the jet-lagged consciousness.
Read more »Retrospective by Salla Tykkä (b. 1973) and Finnish Midsummer 2169 by Anssi Kasitonni (b. 1978) have been selected to the international competition of the 62nd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen through AV-arkki’s distribution. The festival will mark the world premiere for Tykkä’s Retrospective, an… Read more »
AV-arkki has a strong presence at Tampere Film Festival. Held between March 9 and 13, Tampere Film Festival is the oldest short film festival in Northern Europe. The internationally distinguished event is AV-arkki’s main associate in Finland. The national competition of… Read more »
Parametronomicon presents a model of parametric virtual life. A biomechanic organism moves, multiplies and regenerates in an elaborate series of convulsive movements. Its life spans from simple formations to inevitable apocalyptic visions of an over-the-top visual orgy.
Read more »A film about the disappearance of our familiar earth and about personal longing.
Read more »The culmination of artistic work is when you are permitted to curate the works of others. Let's Curate! portrays the narcissistic world of selfies and the act of curating itself.
Read more »AV-arkki is proud to participate in the upcoming 2016 edition of Moving Image, the contemporary video art fair in Chelsea, New York. AV-arkki´s selection for the fair is Maija Blåfield’s delicate piece Golden Age (2015). Golden Age is a film… Read more »
Diego Bruno’s, Jaakko Pallasvuo’s and Sasha Huber’s films have been selected to The International Film Festival Rotterdam’s programme. Tuomas Laitinen’s, Timo Wright’s and Petra Lindholm’s films will be featured at AV-arkki’s press and industry screening. IFFR 2016 takes place between 27 January –… Read more »
The campaign video for presidential elections in 1982, promoting Sleeping Myllymäki, the candidate of the Sleepers’ Party. The sleep graph shows that he is a genius.
Read more »Myllymäki’s partner, Legenda Laakkonen, travels to Tokio and introduces the Underground Narrow Film zine to the local people.
Read more »The chipmunks run wild and keep drawing even when their bedtime is approaching.
Read more »A song by Sleeping & the Beds about sexual objectification. Sing along with lyrics!
Read more »A demo by Sleeping & the Beds. A song about the suicidal feelings of the sinister youth. The negative black and white footage portrays festivalgoers of Ämyrock 1984.
Read more »An ode for incompleteness, experimentality, guitar strumming and episodic structure.
Read more »A punk influenced sound collage including contemplation on safety of the seventh art.
Read more »An experimental short film about how it is like to walk in a post nuclear disaster landscape with radiometers in the shoes.
Read more »An experimental film documenting the authentic polemic and blasphemy accusations provoked by Myllymäki's underground film "A Song about the Pharisees".
Read more »Log Head is an experimental comedy about a birch log with a soul and a pair of skis. When old and useless, and ready to be chopped, Log Head takes off to its skis. Will Log Head’s escape be blocked?
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