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 »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 »
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 »
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 »
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth included in the program of Encontros da Imagem — International Photography and Visual Arts Festival, Braga, Portugal
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth will be on view as part of Encontros da Imagem – International Photography and Visual Arts Festival held from September 20—November 3, 2024 in Braga, Portugal. Birds in the Earth (2018) is a short… Read more »
Hanna Hovitie’s Square The Circle to be screened at Videomedeja 2024, Serbia
Hanna Hovitie’s film Square The Circle will be screened at Videomedeja, held from October 10–12, 2024 in Novi Sad, Serbia. Videomedeja is an international festival of new media that engages with important social and political themes through video art, installations,… Read more »
Ocean's Skeleton
Taija Goldblatt
New work
An animation of the ocean’s bones, the joints of the waves, humankind and dark waters.
Read more »Vappu Rossi’s Generatio spontanea included in Aarhus Festival 2024
Vappu Rossi’s installation Generatio spontanea will be on view at Aarhus Festival, held from August 30–September 8, 2024 in Aarhus, Denmark. Vappu Rossi will be present at the festival as an artist guest. Generatio spontanea (2024) is a poetic media… 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 »
August Joensalo’s The Rootless (2024) selected to Concorto Film Festival, Italy
August Joensalo’s film The Rootless will be screened at Concorto Film Festival, held from August 17–24, 2024 in Parco Raggio, Pontenure, Italy. In Rootless (2024) a desire to revive the Karelian heritage, culture and language between a grandfather and grandchild… Read more »
Ville Koskinen’s teeth (2024) and Azar Saiyar’s Solar Book (2024) to be screened at San Francisco Cinematheque’s CROSSROADS film festival
Ville Koskinen’s teeth (featured image) and Azar Saiyar’s Solar Book are selected in the programme of San Francisco Cinematheque’s annual film festival CROSSROADS, held from August 30–September 1, 2024 in San Francisco, US. CROSSROADS celebrates recent (and rediscovered) artist-made film,… 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.
Read more »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.
Read more »Anssi Kasitonni’s Pena’s Special Hauling (2024) to be screened at Murf/Murw festival, Netherlands
Anssi Kasitonni’s film Pena’s Special Hauling (2024) will be screened at Murf/Murw festival, held from September 27–29, 2024 in Tilburg, Netherlands. Pena’s Special Hauling (2024) features Pena, who has been driving a semi-truck for 50 years and that’s the way… Read more »
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 »
To be somebody in life
Sophia Ehrnrooth
New work
Who is permitted to dream? Do we judge aspirations of young people as impossible from the onset?... Read more »
Mika Taanila to be presented with Underground Spirit Award at Palić European Film Festival
Mika Taanila is this year’s laureate of the Underground Spirit Award at Palić European Film Festival, held from July 20–26, 2024 in Palić, Serbia. The Underground Spirit Award is awarded for outstanding work in the field of independent film and… Read more »
Mika Taanila’s Tectonic Plate included in Lost Lost Lost section of New Horizons Film Festival, Poland
Mika Taanila’s Tectonic Plate is included in the Lost Lost Lost section of New Horizons Film Festival held from July 18–28, 2024 in Wrocław, Poland. The Lost Lost Lost section presents films from previous years that were overlooked in the… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s Scenic View selected for Braziers International Film Festival, UK
Maija Blåfield’s Scenic View is selected for Braziers International Film Festival held from August 30–September 1, 2024 in Oxfordshire, UK. Scenic View (2023) is a film about how we look at a forest landscape and the reality. Finland has the… 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 »
Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh’s You Can’t Get What You Want But You Can Get Me wins National Award at Leiden Shorts
Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh’s You can’t get what you want but you can get me received the Best National Short Film Award at Leiden Shorts, which was held 6–9 June, 2024 in Leiden, Netherlands. You Can’t Get What You… Read more »
Jenni & Lauri Luhta’s Moses included in Visual Front section of New Horizons Film Festival, Poland
Jenni & Lauri Luhta’s film Moses is included in the Visual Front section of New Horizons Film Festival held from July 18–28, 2024 in Wrocław, Poland. The Visual Front section showcases films of visual artists who daringly enter the world… 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.
Read more »Waiting dogs
Helena Öst
New work
Two dogs waiting patiently on the sidewalk.
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