Matti Harju‘s film Yaris, Varis (Yaris, Crow) received a Special Mention in Videoex 2026 International Competition from the jury. The jury appreciated the film “for its surprisingly playful way of showing us scenes from the group of young Finnish men… Read more »
AV-arkki Webinar Series 2026 introduces the association’s work
AV-arkki will launch a webinar series in spring 2026 that offers a comprehensive introduction to the association’s activities. The series is aimed especially at new artists in the AV-arkki archive, as well as artists and collaborators interested in AV-arkki’s work…. Read more »
Matti Harju’s Yaris, Crow competes at Videoex 2026, Zürich, Switzerland
Matti Harju‘s film Yaris, Crow (2026) has been selected for the International Competition of Videoex, taking place from May 22–31, 2026 in Zürich, Switzerland. Videoex is Switzerland’s largest festival dedicated to experimental film and video. Yaris, Varis (Yaris, Crow) (2026)… Read more »
Audition at Mystero
Mariangela Pluchino
New work
Three actors are competing for the role of a vampire on the stage of Mystero, a theatre specialised in the horror genre. The director of the play surprises everyone with an unexpected twist.
Read more »Sini Pelkki’s Embarkation shown as part of the screening Artist’s Choice: “Fragments: A Selection of Artists’ Films” at Kai Art Center, Tallinn on May 17, 2026
Sini Pelkki‘s work Embarkation (2012) will be screened as part of the film programme Artist’s Choice: “Fragments: A Selection of Artists’ Films”, curated by artist Paul Kuimet and created in dialogue with the exhibition Exploded View at Kai Art Center…. Read more »
Martta Tuomaala’s Am I Calling You at a Bad Time? competes at the 18th Leiden Shorts (May 29–June 2, 2026), Netherlands
Martta Tuomaala‘s Am I Calling You at a Bad Time? has been selected for the International Competition at Leiden Shorts film festival. The festival takes place from May 29–June 2, 2026 in Leiden, the Netherlands. X is growing up in… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene and Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s Those Who Kept the Light / Seaweed now streaming on THIS IS SHORT platform
Jonna Kina‘s Arr. for a Scene (featured image) and Nastja Säde Rönkkö‘s Those Who Kept the Light / Seaweed are now streaming on the online platform THIS IS SHORT. The European streaming platform THIS IS SHORT was jointly launched by… Read more »
Bruise
A bruise appears on the cheek of a ceramic statue; it starts small and pink, then expands and turns bluish. As the bruise spreads, a web of cracks appears on the surface of the ceramic. The beauty of the hairline fractures and the violence of the bruise create a paradoxical sense of threat.
Read more »Analog Fractals #02
Pilvari Pirtola
New work
In 2025, the artist developed a roll of Single8 film and discovered that unique patterns had formed on it. Prior to being shot and developed, the cartridge had been exposed to extreme environmental conditions for years. These conditions triggered a cellular automaton process that created Sierpiński triangle fractal... Read more »
Analog Fractals #01
Pilvari Pirtola
New work
In 2025, the artist developed a roll of Single8 film and discovered that unique patterns had formed on it. Prior to being shot and developed, the cartridge had been exposed to extreme environmental conditions for years. These conditions triggered a cellular automaton process that created Sierpiński triangle fractal... Read more »
Productive Unit
Diego Bruno
New work
Productive Unit (Unidad Productiva) presents an open but revealing history of the political capacity of the Unemployed Workers Movement in ArgentinaThe film merges archival documents and experimental film to evaluate both the subject and the way of communicating it.
Read more »Total Control
Inari Sandell
New work
Total Control is an essay film using thermal imaging to reflect on normative exercises of power in a museum. Drawing on the artist’s experience as an autistic person, it emerges from a situation in which they were removed from an exhibition based on interpretations of their body language. The work reveals a restless,... Read more »
Mourning
Kaisaleena Halinen
New work
When we lose a loved one, we live with the constant presence of absence. In the film, a person engages in grief work, assembling a mold of their loved one. Each piece of the mold is like a fragment of memory; putting the pieces together is an impossible attempt to make the memory whole and to get closer to the loved one.... Read more »
Oblivion
Antti Tanttu
New work
Oblivion is an experimental, hand-drawn chalkboard animation. The work explores forgetting and the difficulty of recollection. What are our memories made of, are they merely ghost-like flashes from the subconscious?
Martta Tuomaala’s Am I Calling You at a Bad Time? selected for the 21st International Labor Film Festival (May 2-10, 2026), Turkey
Martta Tuomaala‘s Am I Calling You at a Bad Time? has been selected for the 21st International Labor Film Festival taking place from May 2-10, 2026 in Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir, Turkey. X is growing up in the 1990s. As… Read more »
Pilvi Takala’s Real Snow White screened at Numbers gallery on May 9, 2026 in Sydney, Australia
Pilvi Takala‘s Real Snow White will be screened as part of the Videos programme, a 12 night programme of artist’s films across 4 weekends, by the independent gallery Numbers in Sydney, Australia. The screening series take place from April 17… Read more »
Erkka Nissinen’s Monday and Martta Tuomaala’s Am I Calling You at a Bad Time? compete at Flatpack Festival (May 8–16, 2026), UK
Erkka Nissinen‘s Monday (2026) (featured image) and Martta Tuomaala‘s Am I Calling You at a Bad Time? (2025) have been selected for the 20th Flatpack Festival. Both films are screened in the Short Film Competition: Growing Up. The festival takes… Read more »
Growth
Pinja Valja
New work
Growth explores the tension between human creativity and artificial intelligence through the metaphor of growth. In the piece, vegetation begins to sprout from a woman, threatening to cover her entirely.
Read more »Snot manifesto
Sandra Lola Dada
New work
Pilvi Takala’s Real Snow White screened as part of a special programme at the 23rd IndieLisboa (April 30-May 10, 2026), Portugal
Pilvi Takala‘s work Real Snow White will be screened as part of the programme “This Is Not a Documentary” Retrospective at the 23rd edition of IndieLisboa. The programme is dedicated to the mockumentary—a genre that blurs the lines between fiction… Read more »
Sanna Liljander’s When Will the Day Break wins the Blickfang Prize for the Best International Experimental Film at Filmfest Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
Sanna Liljander‘s film When Will the Day Break (2024) won the Blickfang Prize awarded for the Best International Experimental Film at the Filmfest Schleswig-Holstein. The festival took place from 17-21 March, 2026 in Kiel, Germany. The jury described the film… Read more »
The House
Elena Näsänen KENNO FILMI OSK
New work
A poetic film about memories, letting go, destruction, and hope. A home, an abandoned house with its belongings, and an old forest serve as the backdrop for a woman's poetic monologue, where personal and universal memories intertwine with the echoes of war and environmental destruction.
Read more »Significant project funding for the development of networks in Finnish media art
Image: M-Cult, Tani Simberg 2025 The Finnish Arts and Culture Agency awarded €70,000 in funding to the Finnish Media Art Networks collaboration project. The project will be carried out by AV-arkki, M-Cult, and the Finnish Light Art Society FLASH in… Read more »
Expeditions (to places that don't exist)
Lilli Haapala
New work
Expeditions (to Places That Don’t Exist) is a video work that engages with seeing, reality, and utopias. It asks what is true and what may be constructed by our perception. At the same time, the work raises the question of what we can truly know about the world.
Read more »Too Blue a Sky
Risto-Pekka Blom
New work
A story about money, power, exploitation and many possible ends to the world. Some people yearn for Mars, others for Heaven. Some dance the humppa on the Moon. In this short, tragicomic play, each of us has our own little part.
Read more »AV-arkki’s artists’ films at the Nofilter Kino Film Festival (March 28–April 25, 2026)
Several of AV-arkki’s artists’ films will be featured in the programme of the 12th edition of Nofilter Kino Film Festival, taking place from March 28–April 24, 2026 across various cities in Europe, including Helsinki. The programme Solo Soul Sauna presents… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic part of a special programme at the 18th Go Short Nijmegen festival (April 7–12, 2026), Netherlands
Maija Blåfield‘s film The Fantastic will be screened as part of a short film programme Age of Disinformation at the 18th Go Short Nijmegen. This film programme takes a closer look at the ongoing stream of disinformation, from state-controlled media… Read more »
Bluegreen bodies (and other stories)
Lilli Haapala
New work
Bluegreen Bodies (and Other Stories) is a poetic video work in which water, time, and different bodies gradually merge. Within its flow drift temporal layers and forms of being: the primordial sea, mitochondria, Mother Nature, and the bodies of water. The work reflects on the shifting relationship between the natural and... Read more »
Jari and Me
Riikka Gröndahl
New work
Jari and Me is a documentary-based video work about two friends. The work shows the life of two students in their 20s in a smoky studio flat in Tampere, Finland. The work consists of conversations about body image, identity and death. Jari and Me is about the hardships of growing up, self-acceptance, and the power of... Read more »
Absent Referent
Riikka Gröndahl
New work
The video work Absent Referent explores the ways humans and nonhuman animals interact in a specific scientific setting, and how images of violence and care are being looked at and talked about by a variety of people. Some people turn their heads away and some watch without a blink.
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