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Distribution Catalogue 2025–2026
Single channel works have been selected for the Distribution Catalogue 2025–2026 by guest curator, Martin Grennberger, together with AV-arkki’s personnel.
The Distribution Catalogue 2025–2026 consists of the following titles:
Martta Tuomaala
Am I Calling You at A Bad Time?
2025 | 15:00 min
X is growing up in the 1990s. As a child she makes prank calls and gets her first job in telemarketing as a teenager. Office smells, heavy breathers, and meaningless greetings follow her from one workplace to another. Through archival material and amateur video footage, the narrative reflects X’s actions as a faceless subject playing with her voice as a commercialised asset.
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Martta Tuomaala is a visual artist (MA) who works between documentary and fiction. She focuses on various forms of film, video and installation. Over the past decade she has mainly concentrated on work culture and workers’ issues. Tuomaala has worked in many low-income fields and her own experiences have inspired her to create projects emphasizing workers’ rights.
In her recent artworks, a notable satirical touch and expressive body language are evident, but the form and the tone of the artwork depends largely on the content that is dealt with.
Tuomaala is a co-founder of Kenno Filmi co-op, a production house proposing reconfigurations of film and media art production practices through creative exchanges. Tuomaala’s works have been exhibited in various festivals and exhibitions internationally (e.g. 2022-23, 5th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, 2021 ACC Gallery, Weimar, 2020 Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, 2020, EKKM, Tallinn, Survival Kit Festival, Riga). She also represented Finland at the 2019 Venice Biennale as part of the Miracle Workers Collective.
Lau Rämö
Contact
2025 | 07:30 min
Pictures of the sky appear on a phone forgotten outdoors. Nearby, slime trails shimmer in the fading evening light. The animation, unfolding at the pace of a phone conversation, explores crossing paths, multispecies communication, and perception. It is an associative journey into the unknown.
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Lau Kauri Rämö (b. 1989) is a Helsinki-based media artist. Their animations sprout from being part of a diverse multispecies world, play and rethinking post-anthropocentric existence. Rämö holds a Master of Arts degree from Aalto University from 2020 and has been working as a photography, installation, publication and video artist since 2012.
Leena Lehti
Existence II
2025 | 05:01 min
Excistence II focuses on bees, proposing a gaze filled with curiosity and compassion. The bees seen in the hand-processed film died due to winter loss.
Existence is an experimental short film trilogy dedicated to insects and life. The title refers to the alarming decline in insect populations.
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See Leena Lehti’s artist page for the other parts of the trilogy.
Leena Lehti (MA) is a media artist who works in Tampere, Finland. In her works, she uses old handmade film techniques combined with digital video and photography. Lehti’s films has been shown in screenings, art exhibitions and film festivals in Finland and abroad.
Charlotte Clermont
du soleil, que ça existe
2025 | 09:05
du soleil, que ça existe examines the temporalities through which the body forms, stores, and creates what we translate as the real. Focusing on longing, distance, and language, this text-based project explores the expansiveness of both language and landscape, by installing spaciousness in the dialogue and by considering landscapes as bodies.
Because of veils that obscure or illuminate the images, the inability to perceive is experienced at times in almost-erased spaces, at others in velvety dark spaces, where only details are revealed through the flickering of the film’s solarization. The rhythm between light and darkness echoes the movements of the sea, adding aqueous and sensuous layers to the film, where images seem to exist outside of the often narrative space of cinema, becoming instead paintings or photographs in motion.
The overall feeling of this short film is inspired by Marguerite Duras’ The Malady of Death (trans. 1986) in which she describes, at the end of the book, how a window overlooking a dark sea at night becomes an element central to her work.
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With a background in experimental cinema, Charlotte Clermont creates a dialogue between video and audio explorations to examine our perceptions of the real. She holds a Master’s degree in Time and Space from Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts. Her master’s project “du soleil, que ça existe” was nominated for the Nordic and Baltic Young Artist Award. Her works have been presented in Canada and internationally at festivals and exhibitions such as the Festival international du film sur l’art (Canada), Fracto (Germany), Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux de Paris (France), IFF Rotterdam (Netherlands), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Germany), CROSSROADS (USA), Arctic Moving Image and Film Festival (Norway), and Edinburgh International Film Festival (Scotland).
Pilvi Takala
Feeling Defensive (Part 1)
2025 | 15:50 min
Feeling Defensive emerged from Takala’s experience attending the National Defence Course – an invite-only training organised by the Finnish military to rally support for national defence and foster preparedness for crises and war. Based on a conversation with a fellow course participant, political scientist Johanna Vuorelma, the work observes how the course is designed to influence not only its participants but also the society beyond its immediate scope.
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Pilvi Takala (b. 1981) lives and works between Berlin and Helsinki. Her video works are based on performative interventions in which she researches specific communities in order to process social structures and question the normative rules and truths of our behaviour in different contexts. Her works show that it is often possible to learn about the implicit rules of a social situation only by its disruption. Her work has been shown in MoMA PS1 and New Museum, Kiasma, Palais de Tokyo, Kunsthalle Basel, Manifesta 11, Witte de With, and the 9th Istanbul Biennial. Takala won the Dutch Prix de Rome in 2011 and the Emdash Award and Finnish State Prize for Visual Arts in 2013.
Pink Twins
Firewalk
2025 | 09:35
A pre-apocalyptic midnight walk takes you through a burning forest to witness a looming destruction. A fire in the forest either marks an impending doom, or serves as a metaphysical gateway between realities. With their new short film Firewalk, chaos animators Pink Twins are on a deconstructive streak: as they guide you through gloomy visions of an all-consuming catastrophy, they also strip down the illusion of moving image itself, break the spell of immersion and reveal the sketchy building blocks of animated storytelling, staying true to their dark intuition.
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Pink Twins was formed in 1997 by brothers Juha and Vesa Vehviläinen, artists, filmmakers and electronic musicians, born and raised in Helsinki, Finland. Since starting in the hotbed of arts and underground music that was turn-of-the-millennium Helsinki, Pink Twins have polished their musical and visual output into a distinctive and superimmersive audiovisual mayhem. The colourful, abstract cyclic flow of their animation works focus on human perception, its functionality and limits. In their audiovisual live performances Pink Twins create a wholesome and transformative experience with an extremely detailed wall of sound and immersive video projections. Pink Twins have presented their works in exhibitions and festivals on all continents and performed audiovisual live shows through Europe, Americas, Asia and Australia.
Heta Kuchka
Homesick
2025 | 30:00 min
What happens to your sense of self when you lose a place you love? Homesick is a reflection on identity, belonging, and loss, centered on a fading mountain town where the filmmaker’s American father was born. Growing up in Finland, she started to travel to Berwick to connect with her roots, especially after her father’s sudden death. Through stories shared by elderly relatives, the place becomes a living link to her father and family history.
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Heta Kuchka is Finnish-American artist currently based in Helsinki, Finland. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki in 2001 (MFA). She is a versatile artist who works with video, photography and drawing. Her approach is often humoristic yet dealing with humanly significant matters, such as dying and getting older, or the young and their thoughts. Her recent works are increasingly collective. Kuchka was selected as the Young Artist of the Year in 2006. She has participated in exhibitions in Finland and abroad and in 2014 represented Finland at FocusFinland pavilion at ARCOmadrid art fair.
Erkka Nissinen
Monday
2025 | 02:14 min
It’s Monday. A man wakes up. A journalist wants to interview him.
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Erkka Nissinen has studied in The Slade School of Fine Art in London and gained MFA degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, Finland in 2001. His works have been exhibited internationally, for example in Ellen de Bruijne Project Space in Amsterdam, Smart Projects Space in Amsterdam, Helsinki Art Museum’s Kluuvi Gallery and 1646 in Den Haag. During 2011 Rotterdam Art Fair Nissinen won the acclaimed Illy Prize. In 2013, he was awarded with the AVEK Prize for media art. Nissinen represented Finland with Nathaniel Mellors at the Venice Biennale 2017.