AV-arkki will implement a project on the international distribution, sales and renewal of international networks of Finnish media art in the years 2022–2024. AV-arkki’s collaborations partners in the project are Raina Film Festival Distribution Oy and Oy Poike Productio Ab…. Read more »
Saara Ekström’s Amnion competes at Bogoshorts
Saara Ekström’s Amnion has been selected to compete at Bogoshorts, taking place from December 5–12, 2023 in Bogotá, Colombia. The work is screened in the International Experimental Competition CI-EXP2 on Thursday December 7 at 3pm in Centro Ático and on… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s Scenic View receives a special mention at Kyiv International Short Film Festival
Maija Blåfield’s Scenic View has received a special mention at Kyiv International Short Film Festival, taking place November 16–22, 2023 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Scenic View is distributed in collaboration with Raina Film Festival Distribution. Finland has the most forest in… Read more »
Golden Headacher awarded a Personal Honourable Mention at Rising of Lusitania – AnimaDoc Film Festival
Golden Headacher by Niina Suominen has been awarded a Personal Honourable Mention by a member of the festival’s jury at the Rising of Lusitania – AnimaDoc Film Festival, that took place from 16–19 November, 2023 in Szczecin, Poland. The mention… Read more »
Hannaleena Heiska’s Metamorphosis awarded as Best Short Film at On Art – Dance & Music Festival
Hannaleena Heiska’s Metamorphosis has been awarded as Best Short Film at On Art – Dance & Music Festival, held from August 17–21, 2023 in Warsaw, Poland. Dance & Music is a part of the On Art Film Festival – the… Read more »
Jenni Toikka’s Prelude Op. 28 No. 2 and Hanna Hovitie’s Square the Circle compete at Festival Tous Courts
Jenni Toikka’s Prelude Op. 28 No. 2 (2022, in featured image) and Hanna Hovitie’s Square the Circle (2023) are screened at Festival Tous Courts, taking place in Aix-en-Provence, France from November 28 – December 2, 2023. The films are a… Read more »
Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s How to Skin a Polar Bear at Arctic Shorts Film Evening
Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s How to Skin a Polar Bear (2019, in featured image) is screened at Arctic Shorts Film Evening taking place at BOZAR Centre for Fine Art on Monday November 27, 2023 at 7:30pm in Brussels, Belgium. The screening… Read more »
Hanna Hovitie’s Square the Circle and Jussi Eerola’s Grasshopper screened at Short Film Festival Leuven
Hanna Hovitie’s Square the Circle (2023, in featured image) and Jussi Eerola’s Grasshopper (2023) will be screened at Short Film Festival Leuven, taking place from November 24 – December 2, 2023. Square the Circle will compete in the European Competition… Read more »
Films by Mika Taanila, Anu Pennanen and Saara Ekström, featuring music from Mika Vainio, screened at Museu Serralves
Museu Serralves presents AV- arkki’s member artists’ short films in two screenings on consecutive days from 18–19 November 2023. All the works presented feature a soundtrack from the renowned musician Mika Vainio (1963–2017). A Mika Vainio listening room is also… Read more »
Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s Those Who Kept the Light / Seaweed screened at Short Film Night in Lausanne
Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s Those Who Kept the Light / Seaweed (2022, in featured image) has been selected to be screened at the 26th edition of Short Film Night in Lausanne on November 17, Lausanne, Switzerland. The work is a part… Read more »
Intimacy
Jaakko Autio
New work
Intimacy is a sound art installation combining music, space, and communal art. The work invites the viewer to contemplate the significance of human interaction and connection to one's inner self.
As Time Sounds
Jaakko Autio
New work
As Time Sounds is a sound installation that draws inspiration from the traditional Finnish Kalevala. Presented at the Retretti exhibition space, the piece combines a ritualistic stone circle and the voices of eight singers, evoking a sense of ancient ritual.
Read more »On The Border
Jaakko Autio
New work
On The Border is a sound installation depicting cross-border encounters and reflections on identity in the city of Narva. The piece brings together singers from four choirs and music that intertwines the melodies of the Finnish and Estonian national anthems.
Read more »Pena's Special Hauling
Anssi Kasitonni
New work
Pena has been driving a semi-truck for 50 years and that's the way he wants it to be in the future as well. He has some slight memory issues but it is not going to stop him.
Read more »Axel Straschnoy’s solo show Brave the Heavenly Breezes on view in Buenos Aires
Axel Straschnoy’s solo show Brave the Heavenly Breezes is exhibited in Del Infinito, Buenos Aires, Argentina from 2 November – 22 December 2023. “The exhibition showcases Straschnoy’s plans to build and launch an interstellar flanêur based on a technology first… Read more »
Karolina Kucia’s We Bites Us awarded the Clublum Award for best experimental short film at Pornfilmfestival Berlin
Karolina Kucia’s We Bites Us (2023, in featured image) has been awarded the Clublum Award for the best experimental short film at Pornfilmfestival Berlin. The festival was held from October 25–29, 2023. The festival states: “With a colorful scenario and… Read more »
Seize the Moment
Anna-Sofia Nylund
New work
A mother spends alone time in nature with high expectations of its magic powers.
Read more »Nina-Maria Oförsagd’s Bar 2000 premieres in Tokyo
Nina-Maria Oförsagd’s new film Bar 2000 (2023, in featured image) premieres on Friday November 3, 2023 at 7pm in Tokyo, Japan. The screening will take place at TIME SHARING 3A, Shibuya, Jinnan and is hosted by the Finnish Institute in… Read more »
Short Waves features Maija Blåfield’s Scenic View, Jussi Eerola’s Grasshopper and Matti Harju’s Ecstasy
Maija Blåfield’s Scenic View (2023), Jussi Eerola’s Grasshopper (2023) and Matti Harju’s Ecstasy (2023, in featured image) are screened at Short Waves Festival, taking place from November 14–19, 2023 in Poznań, Poland and online from November 20–30, 2023. The works… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s Four Sculptures in Fifteen Pieces screened at Kasseler Dokfest
Jonna Kina’s Four Sculptures in Fifteen Pieces (2022, in featured image) is screened at Kassler Dokfest, taking place from November 14–19, 2023 in Kassel, Germany. The work takes part in the screening #22, titled What Is This Obelisk Doing Here?… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s Scenic View screened at Interfilm Berlin
Maija Blåfield’s Scenic View (2023, in featured image) is screened at Interfilm Berlin, taking place from November 14–19, 2023 in Berlin, Germany. The work is screened in the special programme Reality Bites on November 15, 2023 at 9pm in Unterfilm… Read more »
Jussi Eerola’s Grasshopper shown in two screening programmes at PÖFF Shorts
Jussi Eerola’s Grasshopper (2023, in featured image) takes part in PÖFF shorts, taking place from November 7–15, 2023 in Tallinn, Estonia. The work is screened in two screening programmes: Night cinema on Thursday November 9, 2023 at 9pm in Terminal… Read more »
New non-fiction works in AV-arkki’s archive / Autumn ’23
Featured image: Helka Heinonen: Heartbeats (2023) Discover AV-arkki’s latest acquisitions for our online archive below. For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Maija Blåfield: Scenic View (2023, 15:45) Finland has the most forest in Europe, but primeval forest has… Read more »
New installations, VR and performance based works in AV-arkki’s archive / Autumn ’23
Featured image: Paola Fernanda Guzmán Figueroa: Returning to the Island (2022) Discover AV-arkki’s latest acquisitions for our online archive below. For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. New performance based works Annette Arlander: Dear Spruce 1–7 (2023, 02:16:04) Seven… Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s My Home on view at Goethe Institute, Prague
Azar Saiyar’s My Home is installed at Goethe Institute, Prague from November 17–23, 2023, as a part of a programme presenting works from the Arsenal Berlinale Forum Expanded catalogue. The films are screened for a week each over a six-week… Read more »
New short fiction, music and dance films in AV-arkki’s archive / Autumn ’23
Featured image: Karolina Kucia: We Bites Us (2023) Discover AV-arkki’s latest acquisitions for our online archive below. For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. New short fiction Risto-Pekka Blom: Last Call (2024, 09:57) The lawnmower, the vacuum cleaner and… Read more »
Sasha Huber included in a group show at Aargauer Kunsthaus
Sasha Huber partakes in a group exhibition titled Stranger in the Village – Reflecting on Racism with James Baldwin, taking place 03.09.2023 – 07.01.2024 at Aargauer Kunsthaus. “In his famous text Stranger in the Village, the US-American writer James Baldwin… Read more »
Short films by Jan Ijäs, Maija Blåfield and Risto-Pekka Blom screened at Nordic Film Days Lübeck
Jan Ijäs’s House of the Wickedest Man in the World (2023, in featured image), Maija Blåfield’s Scenic View (2023) and Risto-Pekka Blom’s Oh no, Lasse Falls! (2023) are screened at Nordic Film Days Lübeck, taking place from November 1–5, 2023…. Read more »
Rencontres internationales features moving image works by several AV-arkki’s artists
Matti Harju’s Ecstasy (2023, in featured image), Antti Tanttu’s Noli Timere (2022), Jenni Toikka’s Prelude Op. 28 No. 2 (2022) and Jussi Eerola’s Grashopper (2023) are screened at Rencontres internationales, taking place October 30–November 5, 2023 in Paris, France. Timo… Read more »
Leena Pukki’s The Time of a Slime Mold screened at SLA Art Space Animation Film Festival
Leena Pukki’s The Time of a Slime Mold (2021, in featured image) has been selected to be screened at the SLA Art Space Animation Film Festival, taking place from October 25–28, 2023 in New York City, US. The screening featuring… Read more »