Azar Saiyar’s My Home (2022, in featured image) and Pink Twins’ The Transient (2023) are screened in the international competition of Videoex International Video & Experimental Film Festival, held in Zürich, Switzerland, from May 25 – June 4 2023. Recently,… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur awarded at BAFICI, Buenos Aires
Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur was awarded with the Jury Special Prize at BAFICI, held from April 19 – May 1 2023 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The film was selected for the avant-garde competition of the festival. In Le Saboteur, an ex-saboteur… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s House of the Wickedest Man in the World awarded as the best short film of the Silvestre competition
Jan Ijäs’s House of the Wickedest Man (2023) was awarded with Escola das Artes Silvestre Award for Best Short Film at IndieLisboa, held from April 27 – May 7 2023 in Portugal. The jury states: “Faithful to its topic and made… Read more »
Mox Mäkelä’s Thinking About That awarded at ISFF Oberhausen
Mox Mäkelä’s Thinking About That (2023) was awarded with ZONTA Prize at the 69. International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, held from April 26 – May 1 2023 in Germany. The ZONTA prize, worth 1000 € is distributed for a female filmmaker… Read more »
Jenni Toikka’s and Jan Ijäs’ short films compete at IndieLisboa
Jenni Toikka’s Prelude Op. 28 No. 2 (2022) and Jan Ijäs’ House of the Wickedest Man in the World (2023) were selected for the Silvestre Competition of IndieLisboa, held from April 27 – May 7 2023 in Portugal. In Prelude Op…. Read more »
Meet the Artist – Terike Haapoja
Terike Haapoja is known for her innovative utilization of different technologies in her art. The artist has had solo exhibitions and as Gustafsson & Haapoja duo with her fellow artist Laura Gustafsson all over the world from Faroe Islands to… Read more »
AV-arkki’s office is moving to Töölö
AV-arkki’s office is moving from Cable Factory to the Töölö neighbourhood in Helsinki in early June. Our new address is Töölönkatu 11, 00100 Helsinki. We will share the office space with Frame Contemporary Art Finland and the international theatre festival… Read more »
Minna Rainio’s and Mark Roberts’ To Teach a Bird to Fly screened in Leeds and Londons
Minna Rainio’s and Mark Roberts’ To Teach a Bird to Fly (2020) is included in the programme of In Short, Europe: Awakening short film festival. The screenings of To Teach a Bird to Fly will take place on Saturday, April… Read more »
Niina Suominen’s Golden Headacher screened at Animafest Zagreb
Niina Suominen’s Golden Headacher (2022) will be screened in the World Panorama selection of Animafest Zagreb, held from June 5–10 2023 in Croatia. Golden Headacher is an experimental animation documentary about women’s hate and aggression and the culturally sanctioned ways… Read more »
Elian Mikkola’s Man Made at Alchemy Film Festival
Elian Mikkola’s Man Made (2022) will be screened at Alchemy Film Festival, held from April 27–30 2023 in Hawick, Scotland. The film is included in the screening “Music on a farm was a rare thing“, screened on Saturday, April 29,… Read more »