Pink Twins’ Overlook (2017) will be screened in November at two different film festivals in Seville and Quebec. Held from November 3–11 in Seville, Spain, Festival de Sevilla is dedicated to European cinema. Overlook will be screened in the special… Read more »
Mika Taanila’s The World and Henna-Riikka Halonen’s Placeholder at Uppsala Short Film Festival
Mika Taanila’s The World (2017) and Henna-Riikka Halonen’s Placeholder (2017) are screened at the 36th Uppsala International Short Film Festival, held from October 23–29. The World is selected in the international competition programme “Eye Know“. The screenings take place on… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s and Samuli Alapuranen’s short films screened at kurz.film.spiele, Konstanz
Jan Ijäs’s Social Connection (2016) and Samuli Alapuranen’s Drag Me to Kempele (2017) were screened at kurz.film.spiele short film festival, held in Konstanz from October 21–22. The dialogue of Social Connection has been copied from online forums as is, with… Read more »
Miia Rinne’s Beautiful Confusion screened at Braunschweig International Film Festival
Miia Rinne’s Beautiful Confusion (2017) will have its international festival premiere at the 31st Braunschweig International Film Festival in the Green Horizons short film selection. Held from October 17–22, the filmfest is the oldest festival in Lower Saxony, Germany. The screening… Read more »
Eeva-Mari Haikala’s solo show in V/MSP Gallery, Brussels
Haikala’s first solo show in V/MSP Gallery in Brussels premiers a video work Hamish and Eeva. It is a lens-based performance inspired by Welsh painter Gwen John’s (1876–1939) letters and notebooks. Those texts reminded Haikala the issues of loneliness and… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s short films screened at the 17th Nice Short Film Festival
Held from October 12–20, The 17th Nice Short Film Festival “Un festival c’est trop court!” celebrates Finnish short films with a three-day Finnish Focus. The first screening, held on Friday, October 13, was dedicated to short films by young filmmakers,… Read more »
Seismic Ooze – A Survey of Work by Mika Taanila in London
An extensive survey of work by Mika Taanila takes place at various cultural venues in London from October 16–22. Curated by Stanley Schtinter, an independent curator and filmmaker, the programme is the most complete international survey of Taanila’s practice to… Read more »
Artist Talk: Ars Bioarctica field report #1 – Soichiro Mihara
AV-arkki and Bioartsociety invite you to join us for an artist talk by Japanese artist Soichiro Mihara in our new series of presentations by Ars Bioarctica residents. Soichiro Mihara is currently Art Bioarctica artist-in-residence at the Kilpisjärvi biological station. The talk… Read more »
Milja Viita’s Q & Maria Ångerman’s The Dead Walk Side by Side with the Living at Signes de Nuit IFF
Milja Viita’s Q (2016) and Maria Ångerman’s The Dead Walk Side by Side with the Living (2016) are screened in the international competition of the international film festival Signes de Nuit, Paris. The ongoing edition of the traveling film festival… Read more »
AV-ARKKI’s Distribution Catalogue for 2017–2018 is now available online!
Image: Reija Meriläinen: Crush (2017) Our Catalogue offers a diverse portrait of recent single channel art works by artists and filmmakers based in Finland. AV-arkki’s Distribution Catalogue 2017–2018 is intended for professional preview. The catalogue is distributed via AV-arkki’s international distribution programme for professional… Read more »