Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur will be screened at Glasgow Short Film Festival, held from March 22–26 2023 in Scotland. Le Saboteur is included in the screening “For Shorts and Giggles“, screened on Thursday, March 23, at 21.00, and on Saturday,… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic selected for the 19th Videonale exhibition in Bonn, Germany
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) will be presented in the 19th Videonale exhibition, taking place in Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany, from March 31 to May 14 2023. The Fantastic is a film about encountering the unknown and the relationship between imagination… Read more »
Milja Viita’s Bambi and Jussi Eerola’s Grasshopper will be screened at Ann Arbor Film Festival
Milja Viita’s Bambi (2022, in featured image) and Jussi Eerola’s Grasshopper (2023) will be screened at Ann Arbor Film Festival, held from March 21–26 2023 in Michigan, U.S. The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the oldest avant-garde and experimental film… Read more »
Maarit Suomi-Väänänen’s Log Head and Jussi Eerola’s Grasshopper screened at Regensburg Short Film Week
Maarit Suomi-Väänänen’s Log Head (2015) and Jussi Eerola’s Grasshopper (2023) will be screened at Regensburg Short Film Week, held from March 16–26 2023 in Germany. Log Head is included in the screening Plattenfilme on Tuesday, March 21, at 19:30 in… Read more »
Existence
Leena Lehti
New work
Existence is an abstract and poetic film dedicated to pollinators. The film's title refers to the alarming decline in insect populations.
Existence is a camerales and chemistry-free film that combines cine film with pollen, flowers and bee wings.
Sketch for the Last Map by Lauri Astala screened in France
Lauri Astala’s short film Sketch for the Last Map (2022) is included in competitions at VIDEOFORMES 2023 and Festival L’Europe autour de l’Europe, in France. VIDEOFORMES will be held on March 16 – 19 2023 and Astala’s short film is… Read more »
Hannaleena Heiska’s short film Metamorphosis screened at Le FIFA in Canada
Metamorphosis (2022) by Hannaleena Heiska will be screened at Le Festival International du Film sur l’Art (Le FIFA). The Festival is held on March 14-26 2023 in Montréal, Canada and online from March 24 to April 2. The screening of… Read more »
The Scream
Leena Lehti
New work
Breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, scream!
Read more »Tissue
Henna-Riikka Halonen
New work
In this film, series of long takes guide us from a fictional prosthetic factory through the nostril, skin and tissue to the nervous system and into the cell. The modified 3D model of an animal cell becomes a strange world inhabited by different living and non-living organisms. Here, we see the body simultaneously as a... Read more »
Ánnámáret’s and Marja Viitahuhta’s collaboration works screened in Wales and New Zealand in March
Dolos niegut – Ancient dreams (2022) by Marja Viitahuhta and Ánnámáret is screened at WOW Wales One World Film Festival, held on March 3 to April 7 2023 both in Wales and online. The short film is also part of… Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s retrospective, Ukrainian films and other highlights of this years Tampere Film Festival
This year Tampere Film Festival has a long list of short films by AV-arkki’s member artists included in the competition programs and festival screenings. AV-arkki presents two collaborative screenings in the festival programme: a retrospective of Azar Saiyar, and a… Read more »
Meet the Artist – Marjo Levlin
Marjo Levlin’s (b.1966) road to becoming the video artist that we see today has not been straightforward by any means. Slipping through the back door into art pedagogy and the museum industry the artist was from time to time unsure… Read more »
Short films by Marja Viitahuhta and Ánnámáret screened at The 2023 Sámi Film Festival held online and in New York
Siedi (2022) and Dolos niegut – Ancient dreams (2022, in featured image) by Marja Viitahuhta and Ánnámáret have been selected to the 5th Annual Sámi Film Festival. The festival takes place on 9.2.-12.2.2023 and is held both online and in-person…. Read more »
Escape Character
Joonas Hyvönen
New work
It’s 2042 and the so-called first contact has taken place. A crisis ensues after a message is sent without an emoji marking its sarcastic tone. The foreign civilization departs but leaves humanity with a new form of communication. Escape Character is an animated film following four characters trying to find their way... Read more »
Grasshopper
Jussi Eerola
New work
Night falls down on empty business premises – and lights go up! A minimalistic musical.
Read more »Thinking about that
Mox Mäkelä
New work
What does she explain? Does she speak for herself? Her coat is poplin and its neckerchief is yellow like a canary. Whether she bumped into something when she came from the paradise of market, no one knows, but a group of torsos knows based on their own history that such a thing happens.
Read more »Meet the Artist – Kari Yli-Annala
Kari Yli-Annala (b. 1965) has a non-academic, non-artist family background. It was becoming such a determining factor in his life, that he felt it had to be broken. He struggled to find another kind of life, which he found working… Read more »
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic screened in Musée d’art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic (2020) will be screened in the MUMABOX screening “Météorologiques” on Wednesday, February 8 2023, at 18:00 in Musée d’art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre. The screening, curated by Christophe Guérin, accompanies the ongoing exhibition “Météorologiques”… Read more »
August Joensalo’s Space Is Quite a Lot of Things at Queer Screen Mardi Gras Festival, Sydney
August Joensalo’s Space Is Quite a Lot of Things (2021) will be screened at Queer Screen Mardi Gras Festival, held from February 15 – March 2 2023 in Sydney, Australia. Joensalo’s short film is included in the screening QueerDoc Shorts,… Read more »
Several films by our artists at International Film Festival Rotterdam
International Film Festival Rotterdam will be held from January 25 – February 5 2023 as an on-site edition. Several films by AV-arkki’s artists were selected for different strands of the festival. Matti Harju’s Natura (2023) was selected for the Bright… Read more »
Snugglesafe
Reija Meriläinen
New work
Snugglesafe is a story about a kitten’s fight for survival in the care of a human. The care shown in the video is not tender or pampering but forceful, agonizing and full of repetitive routines. The story is told backwards, ending with the kitten being born.
Read more »Competition
Noora Geagea
New work
Competition is a video re-edited and sampled from old VHS tapes from the 90s, of the artist as a young highly competitive rhythmic gymnast. The work highlights the beauty in the movements, but also the destructive regime to reach this level of perfection. In this work, the artist recalls the army-like methods of the... Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s short films compete at Stuttgarter Filmwinter and Courts mais trash festival, Brussels
Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur (2022) starts its new festival year 2023 with screenings in international competitions of Stuttgarter Filmwinter, held from January 12–15 2023 in Germany, and Courts mais trash film festival, held in Brussels, Belgium, from January 24–28 2023…. Read more »
Hope
Juhani Koivumäki
New work
Three-part short documentary film Hope explores the kind of dreams different people have, whilst also considering how the tone of these wishes changes according to varying life circumstance. After experiencing all of these wishes together, the spectator is urged to reflect upon their own personal hopes and desires.
Read more »Day with a Bog Birch (with text)
Annette Arlander
New work
Day with a Bog Birch (with text) was recorded on 23 September 2020 with a birch on a bog near Mustarinda house in Hyrynsalmi in Northeastern Finland every hour from sunrise to sunset (7 am to 7 pm). The texts were written after each session and recorded the following day.
Read more »The Reclining Birch mix
Annette Arlander
New work
The Reclining Birch mix was performed with a reclining birch on a forest path near Mustarinda house in Hyrynsalmi in Northeastern Finland on 8 September 2020, recording the same image without the human figure and then combining the two videos with slow crossfades.
Read more »The Daily Birch (September in Mustarinda) brief
Annette Arlander
New work
The Daily Birch (September in Mustarinda) was performed daily with a birch behind Mustarinda house in Hyrynsalmi in Northeastern Finland between 2 and 30 September 2020 (except September 14) and here in the brief version edited with 30-second clips of each session.
Read more »AV-arkki special at Minimalen Short Film Festival – Several titles by our artists in the Nordic Competition
AV-arkki starts a new festival year 2023 with a two-part special screening programme at Minimalen Short Film Festival, held in Trondheim from January 10–15 2023. In addition, several short films by our artists were selected for the Nordic competition. Finnish… Read more »
AV-arkki’s Distribution Catalogue 2022–2023 is published now!
Featured image: Elian Mikkola: Man Made (2022) Our catalogue offers a diverse portrait of recent single channel art works by artists and filmmakers based in Finland. AV-arkki’s Distribution Catalogue 2022-2023 is intended for professional preview. The catalogue is distributed via AV-arkki’s international… Read more »
Sieidi
What happens when old beliefs and modern times collide and we create new relationships with old cultural signifiers? In Sieidi, Ánnámáret builds a relationship with the sieidi, an offering place and its being by yoiking. Yoiking makes the siedi true and strengthens its power. The video shows Samuli... Read more »