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 »

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.

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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 »

W is for Waves

Jenni Toikka
New work
The film W is for Waves takes sisters, author Virginia Woolf and visual artist Vanessa Bell, as a starting point to explore the artistic process and examine the relationship between the visual and the literary. We see a choreography of two figures taking turns reading a book and moving with two large-scale paintings. The... Read more »

Closer

Albert Laine
New work

Closer is a jagged existential animation about how the perspective to life can change. It tells the story of an old artist, broken by his difficult memories. It is an animated short film about closeness, love, acceptance and healing.

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Final Scenes of Disaster Movies

Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen Tellervo Kalleinen
New work

The film consists of three imaginary endings for disaster movies. The ideas have been collected from people in Helsinki, and acted by 100 volunteers. A zombie movie, a dystopian ecocatastrophe and a monster movie are all realized in different styles.

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In and Out of Sync with Jenny

Minna-Kaisa Kallinen
New work
The video essay is a love letter to Jenny Hval and her music. Music can connect me, and you, to a community where sound resonates between bodies. The narrator of the video is a music lover whose haunting voice is in and out of sync with the world's post-apocalyptic events. At the same time the narrator lives in the future... Read more »

Submit your new title(s) for our next festival catalogue

Our visiting curator Pamela Cohn. We invite all artists working with moving image to submit their new title(s) for AV-arkki’s distribution catalogue 2024-2025. For the catalogue, we are looking for primarily single channel works that are/will be released in 2024… Read more »

Daisy barking

Helena Öst
New work

I wanted to capture the Siamese cats in the household, their faboulous voices. Daisy, the family’s dog, took over the scene though.

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