Saara Ekström‘s Body All Eyes is included in the screening titled ENTANGLE: STRING FIGURES, taking place on November 18, 2025 at 20:30 in Paris, France. The screening is part of Light Cone’s Scratch Collection #4: Sowing Trouble programme. The programme… Read more »
Milja Viita’s Seafearers (SKÖNÄRIT) selected to Experimental Superstars (Nov 13–15, 2025), Novi Sad, Serbia
Milja Viita‘s Seafearers (SKÖNÄRIT) will be screened at the international festival of experimental film Experimental Superstars, taking place from November 13–15, 2025 in Novi Sad, Serbia. Seafearers (2025) is a collage film about seafarers based on archival footage shot around… Read more »
Charlotte Clermont’s du soleil, que ca existe and Panu Johansson’s Wherever Street Piece screened at ANALOGICA 15 (Nov 12–16, 2025), Bolzano, Italy
Charlotte Clermont’s du soleil, que ca existe (featured image) and Panu Johansson‘s Wherever Street Piece will be screened at the ANALOGICA 15, held from November 12–16, 2025 in Bolzano, Italy. du soleil, que ça existe (2025) examines the temporalities through… Read more »
Martta Tuomaala’s Am I Calling You at A Bad Time competes at ZINEBI – International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao (Nov 21–28, 2025), Spain
Martta Tuomaala‘s Am I Calling You at A Bad Time will compete at ZINEBI – International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, held from November 21–28, 2025 in Bilbao, Spain. Am I Calling You at A Bad Time… Read more »
Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh’s You can’t get what you want but you can get me screened at MIX NYC and The Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) in November 2025
Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh‘s You can’t get what you want but you can get me will be screened ath MIX NYC as part of the screening An Essence to Ooze on November 22, 2025. The festival takes place in… Read more »
Survey for AV-arkki’s artists
Dear AV-arkki’s artists and association members, Help us develop AV-arkki’s operations! We are collecting information to evaluate and develop AV-arkki’s operations. Answering the survey takes about 10 minutes, and most of the questions are multiple-choice. The cuts to the cultural… Read more »
Milja Viita’s Seafearers (SKÖNÄRIT) to be screened at the European Film Festival SCANORAMA (Nov 6–23, 2025), Lithuania
Milja Viita‘s experimental documentary Seafearers (SKÖNÄRIT) will be screened at the European Film Festival Scanorama, taking place from November 6–23, 2025 in 10 cities across Lithuania: Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai, Alytus, Panevėžys, Marijampolė, Visaginas, Vilkaviškis and Gargždai. Seafearers will be… Read more »
Pasi Autio’s Feel the Heat to be featured in the Special Programme ‘Disco Is Not Dead’ at the 29th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (November 4–9, 2025)
Pasi Autio‘s Feel the Heat will be screened at the 29th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur as part of a Special Programme Disco is not Dead. The festival takes place from November 4–9, 2025 in Winterthur, Switzerland. Feel the Heat (2022) depicts… Read more »
Films by Pasi ‘Sleeping’ Myllymäki, Eino Ruutsalo and Ulla Väätäinen & Liisa Karvonen screened at the 29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (Oct 24–Nov 2, 2025), Czech Republic
Pasi ‘Sleeping’ Myllymäki‘s Omena The Apple (featured image), Eino Ruutsalo‘s Food and Ulla Väätäinen & Liisa Karvonen‘s Land’s End to be screened at the 29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival as part of the section Fascinations: Food. This section presents… Read more »
Films by Pink Twins, Lau Rämö, Marjo Levlin, Maija Blåfield and Ewa Górzna & Katarzyna Miron screened at the Animal Nature Future Film Festival (Oct 15–Nov 23, 2025) London, UK and Shanghai, China
Pink Twins‘ Firewalk, Lau Rämö’s Anima, Marjo Levlin‘s Underdog, Maija Blåfield‘s Scenic View and Ewa Górzna & Katarzyna Miron‘s Watchful will be screened at the Animal Nature Future Film Festival, held from October 15–November 23, 2025 in London, UK and… Read more »
Eino Ruutsalo’s Kinetic Pictures, Pasi ‘Sleeping’ Myllymäki’s 3000 Cars and Niina Suominen’s Good Stuff screened at the 32nd International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima (Oct 14–19, 2025), Kraków, Poland
The 32nd International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima presents a retrospective of Finnish animation, curated by Joni Männistö, Artistic Director of the Turku Animated Film Festival. The programme includes Eino Ruutsalo‘s Kinetic Pictures (featured image), Pasi ‘Sleeping’ Myllymäki‘s 3000 Cars and Niina… Read more »
Zagros Manuchar’s Whispers and Veli Granö’s Circus Tuomento screened at the Pärnu International Documentary and Science Film Festival (Oct 6–19, 2025), Estonia
Zagros Manuchar‘s Whispers (featured image) and Veli Granö’s Circus Tuomento will be screened at the Pärnu International Documentary and Science Film Festival held from October 6–19, 2025 in Pärnu, Estonia. In Whispers Zagros Manuchar explores the experiences of Kurdish refugees…. Read more »
Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker and Saara Ekström’s Tailor screened in a special programme Tactile Sensations at the 44th Uppsala Short Film Festival (Oct 20–26, 2025)
Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker (featured image) and Saara Ekström‘s Tailor will be screened in the special programme Tactile Sensations at the 44th Uppsala Short Film Festival, held from October 20–26, 2025 in Uppsala, Sweden. Uppsala Short Film Festival is Sweden’s… Read more »
Milja Viita’s Delight at Robert St. part of LABOCINE’s October 2025 issue Felino
Milja Viita‘s Delight at Robert St. is part of LABOCINE‘s October issue Felino. This program traces felines’ presence across history, culture, and science fiction—creatures at once sacred, feared, and fantastical. Delight at Robert St. (2023) presents Buddy, an old stray… Read more »
Inari Sandell’s On Butterfly Logic part of the Let’s Start The Revolution International Short Film Contest (October 3–5, 2025), Lublin, Poland
Inari Sandell‘s On Butterfly Logic is part of the Let’s Start The Revolution International Short Film Contest organized by the Camera Femina Foundation. The event takes place from October 3–5, 2025 at Baobab in Lublin, Poland. On Butterfly Logic (2024)… Read more »
Marja Viitahuhta & Ánnámáret, Ilkka Heinonen and Turkka Inkilä’s Vuoiŋŋat (Spirits) and Charlotte Clermont’s du soleil, que ça existe compete at the 29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (Oct 24–Nov 2, 2025), Czech Republic
Marja Viitahuhta & Ánnámáret, Ilkka Heinonen and Turkka Inkilä‘s Vuoiŋŋat (Spirits) (featured image) and Charlotte Clermont‘s du soleil, que ça existe have been selected to compete in the Fascinations section at the 29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, held from… Read more »
Letter 1 / AIR
Miia Autio
New work
The essayistic video work is based on a correspondence between the artist and a Beninese diviner (bokonon). Through this dialogue, the artist seeks to approach a reality unfamiliar to them: the worldview of Vodun, the world’s largest nature religion.
Read more »Apply for an exhibition time in Mediabox for 2026 – Deadline October 4, 2025
The Open Call for Mediabox exhibition times for 2026 is now running! There are 11-12 exhibition slots available for Mediabox in 2026. The space includes a fixed projector, media player and active loudspeakers. Mediabox is an exhibition space for media… Read more »
Gunzi Holmström’s Turku Goes Oukkidoukki to be screened at the Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux de Paris (Oct 10–19, 2025)
Gunzi Holmström‘s Turku Goes Oukkidoukki will be screened at the Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux de Paris in the Focus Programme Hacking the past and the present. The festival is held from October 10–19, 2025 in Paris, France. Turku… Read more »
Open Heart Open Mind
Petra Lindholm
New work
What if the Earth could speak through us? This film, born from hypnosis sessions, weaves fragments of image and sound into a resonant space. It is not a story, but an invitation to presence — a place to return to, and perhaps a way to listen differently.
Read more »AV-arkki presents a selection of media art at Swab Barcelona Art Fair (Oct 2–5, 2025)
AV-arkki will present a selection of media artworks as part of the Swab Barcelona Art Fair, taking place from October 2–5, 2025 in Barcelona. Swab Barcelona is an independent platform dedicated to gathering and giving visibility to emerging practices that… Read more »
Saara Ekström’s Geopsyche on view at Uppsala Art Museum, Uppsala, Sweden
Saara Ekström‘s Geopsyche is on view at the Uppsala Art Museum, Uppsala, Sweden from September 13th until October 26th, 2025. Geopsyche (2024) is a three-channel film by Saara Ekström that connects Earth’s ancient geological processes with the inner world of… Read more »
AV-arkki presents a screening of experimental films by artists of Iranian descent at the Love & Anarchy – Helsinki International Film Festival (Sept 18–28, 2025)
AV-arkki’s screening at the Love & Anarchy – Helsinki International Film Festival presents experimental short films by artists and filmmakers of Iranian descent. The works in the screening explore memory and place, inviting reflection on the role of art as… Read more »
Vesa-Pekka Rannikko’s Rat and Border Dog to be screened at the International New Media Art Festival Videomedeja (Oct 9–11, 2025), Novi Sad, Serbia
Vesa-Pekka Rannikko‘s experimental animation Rat and Border Dog will be screened at the International New Media Art Festival Videomedeja, held from October 9–11, 2025 in Novi Sad, Serbia. Rat and Border Dog (2024) is a poetic animation fable about the… Read more »
Erkka Nissinen’s Rigid Regime to be screened at the Murf/Murw festival (Oct 3–5, 2025), Tilburg, Netherlands
Erkka Nissinen‘s Rigid Regime will be screened at the Murf/Murw festival, held from October 3–5, 2025 in Tilburg, Netherlands. The festival focuses on experimental theatre, music, visual arts, and film. In Rigid Regime (2012), an armless outsider observer arrives by… Read more »
Minna Suoniemi’s Practical Ecology part of a Special Programme at Konstmuseet i Kungsparken at Nordisk Panorama Film Festival (18–23 Sept, 2025), Malmö, Sweden
Minna Suoniemi’s film Practical Ecology will be screened at Nordisk Panorama Film Festival as part of a screening programme Malmö in the making. Nordisk Panorama is held from 18–23 September, 2025 in Malmö, Sweden. The films in the programme will… Read more »
A Flagellate Searching for Love
Leena Pukki
New work
A Flagellate Searching for Love captures slime mold moving along symbols of love, diagrams of reproductive cells, and signs of gender. Its themes include the search for love, relationships, sex, and reproduction. The film explores the mechanisms of falling in love, as well as love and sexual attraction. It suggests that... Read more »
A Brilliant Trick
Helka Heinonen
New work
How to do a vanishing act backwards? A poetic film about living on the brink of biodiversity loss, growing up, boundaries, and negotiation. It is about imagining new ways of coexistence and listening to one’s surroundings. The work combines live action with stop-motion animation, dialogue, and voiceover.
Read more »On the Third Day
Maija Tammi
New work
On the Third Day is an installation consisting of a large-scale video projection and an intimate animation. In the video, a mass of flower petals moves in a peculiar way, concealing within itself a secret that threatens to be revealed at any moment. In the animation, a cockroach awakens in a cave. It does not know how it... Read more »
Even a Dead Star Can Be a Lighthouse
Maria Ångerman
New work
What might declining oxygen levels bring about at the edge of the Baltic Sea? Informed by symbiosis and the plasticity of aquatic life, the film meditates on the coping mechanisms of submerged organisms as they respond to shifting environmental conditions.
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