Cooking Pot
Before standing in front of the camera and placing the cooking pot on her head, a woman listens to a song, the rhythm of which she tries to remember in front of the camera by drumming on the pot.
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FRONTIERS
Frontiers consists of video projections, a soundtrack and metal reliefs installed upon music stands. Frontiers invites the spectator to contemplate whether the visual references of the reliefs are signs of a life lived, pieces of a language long since disappeared, or the remains of structures mangled by war.
Read more »Location
Location: archaeological excavation of the Clandestine Detention Centre – Mansión Seré. Used by the last Argentinian dictatorship (1976–1983). Located in 48, Blas Parera st. between Santa María de Oro st. and Bufano st. in the city of Castelar, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Transit by Lauri Astala in the International Competition of IKFF Hamburg, June 9-15
The film Transit by Lauri Astala has been selected for the International Competition of the 31st Hamburg International Short Film Festival (IKFF), taking place in Hamburg, Germany between June 9 and 15, 2015. In Transit, documentary shots of New York… Read more »
Cassandra Tytler
Cassandra Tytler, artist in residence in Turku, interviewed on her works, in present exhibition and before – strongly influenced by B-movies.
Read more »East River
The UN headquarters stand on the eastern side of Manhattan by the East River. Stories of the past and about the natural history of the river interact with the found footage from the archive of YouTube.
Read more »Arkhipelagos (Navigating the Tides of Time)
Abendland
“In the shadow lies the sick god dreaming venomous dreams…” Abendland is a three-part animation set in a mythologized distant future, a twilight world after the age of man.
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Retrospective Screening of Erkka Nissinen in Oberhausen, AV-arkki presented at Distributors’ Screening, 30 April – 5 May, 2015!
A retrospective screening of Erkka Nissinen’s (b. 1975) works is presented in the distinguished PROFILES Programme at the 61. Oberhausen Short Film Festival 2015. In the course of more than five decades, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen has become one of… Read more »
Year of the Horse - Calendar 1-2
Films by Pekka Sassi, Azar Saiyar and Pink Twins in the International Competition of Kino der Kunst in Munich, Germany in April 22 – 26!
After Everything by Pekka Sassi, Primus Tempus by Azar Saiyar and Parametronomicon by Pink Twins have been chosen to participate in the International Competition of the second edition of Kino der Kunst in Munich, Germany from April 22 to 26…. Read more »
Hermaphrodites
Camera
MAA-TILA gallery was converted into a film camera that recorded the street in front of it. Visitors of the exhibition walked into the camera therefore interfering with the recording mechanism. After two weeks of exhibition, the resulting film was spooled together to make Camera.
Read more »The Figure of the Earth
The Light from Within the Mountain
Ten pieces created by Tomas Regan and Sami Sänpäkkilä. The collaborative works combine video and drawing swarming compelling imagery towards the viewer and toying with visual illusions.
Read more »Theme Park
You will learn how to own. You do not owe anything to anyone. You will get it all. A video about an air-filled figure at the shopping centre.
Read more »On C. D. Friedrich #02: Dancing
Patterns
Combining abstraction with real life in a humorous fashion, the installation portrays patterns of industrially manufactured covers of the seating in public transport.
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Finnish Video Art in Japan @ Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2015
AV-arkki is proud to present a special programme of Finnish video art at the 7th Yebiso Festival for Art & Alternative Visions. The festival takes place in the Metropolitan Museum of Photography and Yebisu Garden Place in Tokyo, Japan between 27 February –… Read more »
Eagle
Is This the World of Teddy?
Food
Our food is radioactive. The fallout descends upon our cities and ourselves. It penetrates everywhere. The world takes on new colours, values are upset, and existence involves risk. Only dreams and expectations remain.
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Two Chickens
Kinetic Pictures
On C. D. Friedrich #01: Drumming
Christmas Piece
The video “Christmas Piece” shows a tree being rotated rapidly by the force of a combustion engine.
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