Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Elina Brotherus: Der Lauf der Dinge (2017, 01:18) After Fischli/Weiss, Der Lauf der Dinge, 1987 Elina Brotherus: Mirror Piece (2015, 02:04) After the original… Read more »
New documentaries, animations, & installations in our online archive / January 20
Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Documentary films and videos Jan Ijäs: Absolute Street (2019, 03:28) Samuel Beckett made a single work for projected cinema. The film was shot in… Read more »
Meet the Artist: Sepideh Rahaa
Sepideh Rahaa (b. 1981) works with installation, performance, painting, and video art, and has also worked on multiple interdisciplinary and research projects. Her video works are meditations on place and human experience. Through recounted personal histories, she constructs intimate narratives… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s Akiya will have its world premiere at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, Forum Expanded
Jonna Kina’s new short film Akiya (2020) will have its World Premiere in the Forum Expanded strand of the 70th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), distributed by AV-arkki. The 70th Berlin International Film Festival takes place from February 20 to… Read more »
Several Finnish short films at IFF Rotterdam
Several Finnish short films found again their way to the official selection of IFF Rotterdam, held from January 22 to February 2. Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 4 New York, New York (2019, in featured image), Jaakko Pallasvuo’s Hole (2019) were… Read more »
Sami van Ingen’s Flame at Prague Short Films Festival
Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) will be screened at Prague Short Films Festival, held from January 22–26 in Czech Republic. Flame is included in the experimental Labo programme, screened on Wednesday, January 22, at 20:30, and on Saturday, January 24,… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s and Pilvi Takala’s short films picked for the international competition of the 33rd Stuttgarter Filmwinter
Anssi Kasitonni’s Sakke (2019) and Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker (2019) were selected for the international short film competition of the 33rd Stuttgarter Filmwinter, held from January 16–19 in Germany. Sakke will be screened in the International Competition Short Films 5… Read more »
AV-arkki has acquired several moving image works by Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl and Elina Brotherus
AV-arkki has acquired several moving image works by Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl and Elina Brotherus in the distribution archive. Together, they offer two different approaches to the union of performance art and moving image. Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl – Meditations on time, movement, and… Read more »
Meet the Artist: Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl
Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl (b.1948), one of the first Finnish media artists, works with video, performance and sculpture. She studied fine arts in Dusseldorf and has lived and worked in Germany for many years. Her video works are often portrait-like meditations on… Read more »
AV-arkki’s Distribution Catalogue for 2019–2020 is now available online!
Our catalogue offers a diverse portrait of recent single channel art works by artists and filmmakers based in Finland. AV-arkki’s Distribution Catalogue 2019–2020 is intended for professional preview. The catalogue is distributed via AV-arkki’s international distribution programme for professional audiences in numerous events, film… Read more »