Minna Rainio’s and Mark Roberts’ To Teach a Bird to Fly (2020) will be screened at dotdotdot Open Air Kurzfilmfestival, held from July 30 – August 31 2023 in Volkskundemuseum, Vienna, Austria. The screening of To Teach a Bird to… Read more »
Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s Those Who Kept the Light (Seaweed) screened in the international competition of Lago Film Fest
Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s Those Who Kept the Light (Seaweed) (2022) had its international premiere in the international competition of Lago Film Fest, held from July 21–29 2023 in Revine Lago, Italy. Those Who Kept the Light (Seaweed) is part of… Read more »
Special Mention for Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur at Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival
Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur was awarded with Special Mention at Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival, held from June 19–24 2023 in Slovenia. The special mention was awarded by the European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation Méliès, which stated: “This film… Read more »
Meet the Artist – Artor Jesus Inkerö
Known for their performative bodily project, Artor Jesus Inkerö has worked with multiple art forms: video art, performances, installations, drawing and text work. The active artist is constantly trying new things and producing new material. We talk about linguistics, sense… Read more »
New non-fiction films in AV-arkki’s archive / Summer ’23
Featured image from Hanna Hovitie: Square the Circle (2023) Discover AV-arkki’s latest acquisitions for our online archive below. For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Saara Ekström: Amnion (2023, 06:50) Landfills on the fringes of cities reveal all about… Read more »
New short fiction films in AV-arkki’s archive / Summer ’23
Featured image from Jussi Eerola: Grasshopper (2023) Discover AV-arkki’s latest acquisitions for our online archive below. For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Jussi Eerola: Grasshopper (2023, 08:57) Night falls down on empty business premises – and lights go… Read more »
New installations, musical, and performative works in AV-arkki’s archive / Summer ’23
Featured image from: Leena Kela: Rest of Time (2021) Discover AV-arkki’s latest acquisitions for our online archive below. For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Performative works Annette Arlander: The Daily Birch (September in Mustarinda) brief (2020, 14:10) The… Read more »
Submit your new title(s) for our next festival catalogue
We invite our member artists to submit their new title(s) for AV-arkki’s distribution catalogue 2023-2024, deadline Sunday, July 30! For the catalogue, we are looking for primarily single channel works that will be released in 2023 or 2024. The works… Read more »
Short films by Marja Helander and Pia Andell screened at Finntastic! film festival in Washington D.C.
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth (2017, in featured image) and Pia Andell’s short film Match (2018) are part of the new Finntastic! New Films from Finland film festival. The festival will be held in Washington D.C, on June 7-27… Read more »
Meet the Artist – Minna Suoniemi
“The reason video and photography are so important to me is probably because they both have that special connection to reality”, says Minna Suoniemi, who has made an extensive career as an artist working with both video and photography but… Read more »