The last Art for Art’s Sake screening of the year takes place on Tuesday 10 December 2024 and continues the theme of being touched by examining the impossibility, difficulty and contradictions of touch. In Marjatta Oja‘s work, Dialogue 3101 1990… Read more »
Jussi Eerola’s Grasshopper to be awarded the Eisenstein Award at Blow-Up Arthouse Film Festival, Chicago, US
Jussi Eerola’s Grasshopper will be awarded the Eisenstein Award at Blow-Up Arthouse Film Festival, held in Chicago, US. Grasshopper (2023) is a minimalistic musical. Night falls down on empty business premises – and lights go up! Finnish filmmaker and cinematographer… Read more »
Films by Iona Roisin, Anu Pennanen, Azar Saiyar and Milja Viita & Veli Granö at Beijing International Short Film Festival (BISFF)
Iona Roisin’s An Uncountable Number of Threads (featured image), Anu Pennanen’s 50, 100 Years From Now, Azar Saiyar’s Solar Book and Milja Viita & Veli Granö’s The King will be screened at Beijing International Short Film Festival (BISFF), held from… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’ Two Wars and Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh’s You Can’t Get What You Want But You Can Get Me in competition at Alcalá de Henares Film Festival – Alcine, Madrid
Jan Ijäs’ Two Wars and Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh’s You You Can’t Get What You Want But You Can Get Me compete at Alcalá de Henares Film Festival – Alcine, held from 7 to 17 November 2024 in Madrid,… Read more »
Down Under
Marcus Lerviks
New work
Teos käsittelee pinnan alla olevaa maailmaa. Videoissa korostuu luonnon hiljaisuus vastakohtana ihmisten hallitsevalle maailmalle. Lähtökohtana teokselle olivat uudet maisemat, joita harvemmin pääsee kokemaan. Työn edetessä ihmisten roolin merkitys kuitenkin nousi vahvemmin esille –... Read more »
Shubhangi Singh’s Birth of a Grenade included in the program of Magma – International Short Film Festival in Acireale, Italy
Shubhangi Singh’s Birth of a Grenade (2024) is included in the program of Magma – International Short Film Festival, held from 4–9 November, 2024 in Acireale, Italy. The film will be screened in the Eksperimenta section, which is dedicated to experimental… Read more »
Hanna Kaihlanen’s Hovering Over Us nominated for the Golden Key, Paula Lehtonen’s Guests of Honor included in Short & Sweet section at 41st Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival
Hanna Kaihlanen’s Hovering Over Us (featured image) has been nominated for the Golden Key for the best documentary short film by the selection committees of the 41st Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, held from 12–17 November, 2024 in Kassel,… Read more »
The November screening of Art for Art’s Sake series touches upon our relationships with creatures great and small
The overarching theme of the fall season of AV-arkki and Cinema Orion’s Art for Art’s sake series is touch. The second show in the autumn series on November 5th examines the relationships between humans and other living beings. The works… Read more »
salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears
Nastja Säde Rönkkö
New work
salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears takes its starting point from a commonly held - yet incorrect - belief that blood contains the same amount of salt as sea water. Three narrators - a teardrop, a drop of Golden blood and a droplet of sweat - tell their own stories of love and loss. The video is driven by a poetic... Read more »
Bliss
David Muth
New work
The video piece “Bliss” explores minimalist aesthetics by employing generative means of production. Its foundation lies in one-dimensional cellular automata – a mathematically determined “universe” where each row of pixels derives its appearance from analysing its preceding row.
Read more »Ocean Blvd
Jade Kallio
New work
In reference to a Lana Del Rey song, Ocean Blvd poetically explores the politics of architecture, safe spaces, and visibility from a trans person's perspective. The work blends fictional and non-fictional narratives to outline the boundaries of reality; sometimes our dreams or imagined worlds are more real than the world... Read more »
Films by Sanna Liljander, August Joensalo, Rosaliina Paavilainen, Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh and Anssi Kasitonni at Nordic Film Days Lübeck
Sanna Liljander’s When Will the Day Break, August Joensalo’s Rootless, Rosaliina Paavilainen’s The Beauty Odyssey, Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh’s You Can’t Get What You Want But You Can Get Me and Anssi Kasitonni’s Pena’s Special Hauling are included in… Read more »
Erkki Kurenniemi’s Computer Music (1966) included in the program of 28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Erkki Kurenniemi’s Computer Music (1966) is included in the program of Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, held from October 25–November 3, 2024 in Jihlava, Czech Republic. The film is included in the section Fascinations: Computing Film, which explores the “forerunners”… Read more »
Films by Saara Ekström, Paula Lehtonen and Anssi Kasitonni included in the program of Festival Les Instants Vidéo Numériques et poétique
Saara Ekström’s Geopsyche (2024), Paula Lehtonen’s Guests of Honor (2024) and Anssi Kasitonni’s Pena’s Special Hauling (2024) are included in the program of Festival Les Instants Vidéo Numériques et poétique. Geopsyche and Guests of Honor will be on view in… Read more »
Films by Ville Koskinen, Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh and Anssi Kasitonni compete at Uppsala Short Film Festival, Salla Tykkä’s, Pilvari Pirtola’s and Pasi “Sleeping” Myllymäki’s films included in the PUNK! series
Uppsala Short Film Festival is held from October 21–27, 2024. Several films by AV-arkki’s artists are again included in the festival program. Ville Koskinen’s teeth (2024) (featured image) is screened in the International Competition series titled Secret Stories. In the… Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s Solar Book and Milja Viita & Veli Granö’s The King compete at Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris
Azar Saiyar’s Solar Book (2024, in featured image) and Milja Viita & Veli Granö’s The King (2024) have been selected to compete at Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, held from October 13–20 in Paris, France. The King… Read more »
Underdog
Marjo Levlin
New work
Underdog is an experimental documentary exploring the worlds of dogs and people. Filmed in black and white, it reflects on the filmmaker’s childhood experiences with social class and culture, drawing parallels between the selective breeding of pedigree dogs and the complexities of life in a diverse world.
Read more »Habitat Lost
Kalle Hamm
New work
The work is part of the New Pangaea project, which explores the relationship between humans and plants on the island of Seili. Habitats have been transformed over the centuries by human impact. As a result, some species have completely disappeared from the island. The video shows the traces of these changes on Seili.
Read more »Nevergreen
Kalle Hamm
New work
The work is part of the New Pangaea project, which explores the relationship between humans and plants on the island of Seili. The island's native vegetation is being restored through grazing and the removal of invasive alien species. For example, the rugosa rose has been completely eradicated from Seili Island.
Read more »The Endangered Weak Competitor
Kalle Hamm
New work
The work is part of the New Pangaea project, which explores the relationship between humans and plants on the island of Seili. Weak competitors lose out to generalists and need special protection. Originally a weed, field cow-wheat is now a plant rarity on Seili and a protected species.... Read more »
Botanical Xenophobia
Kalle Hamm
New work
The work is part of the New Pangaea project, which explores the relationship between humans and plants on the island of Seili. Classification as an invasive alien species is not always unambiguous. The plants in the video are classified as invasive alien species on the mainland, but on Seili they are considered... Read more »
Transplanted Polyphony
Kalle Hamm
New work
The work is part of the New Pangaea project, which explores the relationship between humans and plants on the island of Seili. A number of useful and ornamental plants and different species of trees have been planted there. Some plants escape from the gardens. They are called garden escapees. The video shows these... Read more »
Weedling Wild
Kalle Hamm
New work
The work is part of the New Pangaea project, which explores the relationship between humans and plants on the island of Seili. There are many definitions of weeds, but they are all helplessly human-centred. The plants in the video are considered weeds in Seili's flower beds.
Read more »Apply for an exhibition time in Mediabox for 2025 – Deadline October 22, 2024
There are 11-12 exhibition times available for Mediabox in 2025. The space includes a fixed projector, media player & active loudspeakers. Mediabox is an exhibition space for media art, located in Forum Box. The programme presents recent media art pieces… Read more »
SKÖNÄRIT
Milja Viita
New work
“We haven't seen land or a beacon for several hours”, the captain writes in the S/S Mercur's logbook on the fateful evening of December 8, 1925, the weather being foggy and windy.A century later the ordinary seamann of the ship, young Jalmar Yrjänen introduces five distantports for us.... Read more »
AV-arkki’s Distribution Catalogue 2024–2025 is published
Featured image: Jade Kallio: Ocean Blvd Our catalogue offers a diverse portrait of recent single channel art works by artists and filmmakers based in Finland. AV-arkki’s Distribution catalogue 2024–2025 is intended for professional preview. The catalogue is distributed via AV-arkki’s… Read more »
Stowaways and Fellow Travellers
Kalle Hamm
New work
The work is part of the New Pangaea project, which explores the relationship between humans and plants on the island of Seili. Fishermen were the first people on Seili. Plant seeds were already carried with them to the island. The plants in the video have arrived on Seili with the help of humans.
Read more »Guerrillas and Pioneers
Kalle Hamm
New work
The work is part of the New Pangaea project, which explores the relationship between humans and plants on the island of Seili. In the Turku archipelago, the land is still rising after the Ice Age. Pioneer species are the first to arrive on the islets that have risen from the sea. The plants in the video have arrived on... Read more »
AV-arkki and Cinema Orion’s Art for Art’s Sake series continues in the fall with the theme Touch Me
Diana Soria Hernandez: Keep On Trying (2012) The fall season of AV-arkki and Cinema Orion’s “Art for Art’s Sake” screening, event and discussion series kicks off on October 8, 2024 with the theme “Touch me”. The first event titled “Bodily… Read more »
Salla Tykkä’s Giant included in the screening and performance series The Game is Not the Thing: Sport and the Moving Image at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Salla Tykkä’s Giant is included in the screening and performance series The Game is Not the Thing: Sport and the Moving Image at the Walker Art Center, running from October 11–November 8, 2024 in Minneapolis, USA. Spanning 13 decades of filmmaking,… Read more »