Video about the destruction of unnecessary objects.
Read more »Breaking Up is Hard to Do
Niina Suominen
New work
The Factory of the World
Mark Roberts Minna Rainio
New work
The Factory of the World presents video images from a former electronics factory in northern Finland. The factory was closed in 2003 when the production was moved to China. The images are juxtaposed with audio narration about working conditions in Chinese factories. The work observes how the lives and destinies of workers... Read more »
Parametronomicon (Short version)
Pink Twins
New work
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 »
How Everything Turns Away
Mark Roberts Minna Rainio
New work
How Everything Turns Away surrounds the viewer with panoramic seascapes. The work highlights the ocean as an indicator of climate change, of rising sea levels, as well as a site of struggle for thousands of refugees attempting to cross the Mediterranean to seek a better life in Europe.
Read more »World is a Cat
Seppo Renvall
New work
16mm black and white film about outsider feelings reminds of the humane need for contact.
Read more »Clock from Moscow
Seppo Renvall
New work
Grainy black and white super 8 film about a digital clock in Moscow that went crazy.
Read more »Moi
Seppo Renvall
New work
A pinnhole stop-motion imaginary portrait.
Read more »The Bench
Aimo Hyvärinen
New work
An easygoing travel with a bench. ”The bench is from the sauna where I used to bath my children. The surface of the bench is like smooth skin. I have even slept on it during the hardship.” The Bench is both a portrait of a performance artist Heikki Mäntymaa and a... Read more »
7 Arts Part 5: Art
Seppo Renvall
New work
A 16 mm film about the process of making art - from atelier to the exhibition opening.
Read more »My Racism is a Humanism. A Lecture
Sasha Huber
New work
The legacy of Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), hitherto known as a glaciologist and ichthyologist, has been intentionally embellished. The Démonter Louis Agassiz campaign has exposed Agassiz's involvement in crimes against humanity. In a fictitious lecture written by Hans Barth (Fribourg, Switzerland), Agassiz attempts to... Read more »
Empty Vessels
Petra Lindholm
New work
To climb mountains can be seen as a symbol of a general desire that exists in our society today. The dream of reaching the top, be happy for a few seconds when the goal is reached, and then get on to even greater heights.
Read more »Rearranged
Ewa Gorzna
New work
Rearranged is a calmly flowing journey through the space submitted to an unexpected transformation. It reveals a surreal moment when the wild enters the conventional rearranging the established order according to unrestrained turbulent rules.
Read more »Forêt Shell
Tuomo Kangasmaa
New work
Forêt Shell presents an urban story and its setting in Northern Finland. There used to be a service station along a highway outside a small town, a popular stopping place for travellers and meeting place for the youth in the 1960s–1980s. Local people called it "Forest Shell" (Forêt Shell in French). The... Read more »
Trust
Maria Duncker
New work
Dancing chickens of the beyond.
Read more »Haven
Jaana Kokko
New work
Haven is a documentary embodying the space and the politics. How to model a kitchen, how to model a woman?
Read more »The Bench
Aimo Hyvärinen
New work
A short film about Heikki Mäntymaa and his performance series The Bench in the summer of 2014. The relaxed film is also a portrait of Heikki and his life attitudes.
Read more »Micro Is Small
Markus Renvall
New work
Exprimental atmospheric description of the dances in which the ants take part with their own bodies. If we want to see ants dancing ballet, this might be our only chance.
Read more »The Mystical Spouse
Jenni Luhta
New work
The Mystical Spouse portraits artistic process as form of ritual. Located at an art residency, in Utö Island in Finland, the video narrates the many stages and the motifs of the ritual and their transformation into the self-portrait character, a femininity goddess, the Mystical Spouse.
Read more »Madness and Civilization
Teemu Mäki
New work
A drama documentary about xenophobia, misogynia and the relationship between violence and pleasure. Pierre Rivière, Anders Breivik and Michel Foucault; two murderers and one philosopher are the main characters. The dialogue of the film is based on court minutes and on Foucault's writings.
Read more »A Crack in the Wallpaper
Marjatta Oja
New work
A Crack in the Wallpaper, snatches from the unknown and the dark. The work consists of moving and movable images. They come from private memories and written song lyrics that are either painted or created using paint brush and paint. These elements also form a linear story.
Read more »Transformation
Marjatta Oja
New work
Performative act using paper, paint and scissors.
Read more »Green Wash
Marko Lampisuo
New work
Green Wash is an art blog about enterprises' aims to promote responsibility and sustainable development in their business and communications. Green Wash started in 2014. It publishes green drawings of logos and trademarks of companies that have been caught for unethical acts or environmental problems. You can find the... Read more »
Love, from abstract to concrete
Marko Lampisuo
New work
Dad's heart beats for his children. A red form clears up to group selfies.
Read more »Self-portrait (Ready for nothing)
Marko Lampisuo
New work
Artist is dressing up in a dark suit. A hand-drawn skull is reflected upon the video portrait.
Read more »Giant by Salla Tykkä @ Montreal International Documentary Festival – RIDM, Canada,12.-23.11.2014
Giant by Salla Tykkä has been selected to the International Competition of Montreal International Documentary Festival – RIDM through AV-arkki’s distribution. Event: Montreal International Documentary Festival – RIDM Dates of the event: 12.-23.11.2014 Website: www.ridm.qc.ca/en City: Montreal, Qc Country: Canada Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RIDMFestival… Read more »
Moment With Malla 1-2
Annette Arlander
New work
Two-channel installation. Part 1. Wrapped in a dark blue scarf, the aritst is sitting on a rock by Lake Kilpis looking at Malla Fell on June 6 2014 and then slowly disappearing from the image. Part 2. The artist is slowly appearing in the image to sit on a rock by Lake Kilpis looking at Malla Fell on June 6... Read more »
Meeting Malla
Annette Arlander
New work
Wrapped in a dark blue scarf I am standing on the ice on Lake Kilpis looking at Malla Fell on April 3 (2 pm – 8 pm) and April 4 2014 (8 am – 10 pm) with two-hour intervals.
Read more »Looking at Malla
Annette Arlander
New work
With a dark blue scarf on my shoulders I am standing on the shore of Lake Kilpis looking at Malla Fell on June 5 2014 between 10 am and 10 pm with two-hour intervals.
Read more »Day and Night with Malla 1-2
Annette Arlander
New work
Two-channel installation. Part 1. Wrapped in a dark blue scarf, the artist is sitting on a rock by Lake Kilpis looking at Malla Fell for a day and night between noon on June 7 and noon June 8 2014 with two-hour intervals. Part 2. Malla Fell videoed on the same occasions.
Read more »A Day with Malla 1-2
Annette Arlander
New work
Two-channel installation. Part 1. Wrapped in a dark blue scarf, the artist is standing on the ice on Lake Kilpis looking at Malla Fell on 7 April 2014 between 7 am and 9 pm with two-hour intervals. Part 2. Malla Fell shot on the same occasions.
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