The programme of this year’s Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen includes several shorts by our artists. The festival will be held from April 1-10 2022 in Nijmegen, Netherlands, and online. Joel Karppanen’s A Nature Documentary (2021, in… Read more »
Their Greenness
Very short film of greenness.
Read more »Alive (but at what cost)
Hinni Huttunen
New work
A short film about convalescing.
Read more »Konijntje
Eeva-Mari Haikala
New work
In this video performance, a woman hides under tree roots.
Read more »Red Devil
Eeva-Mari Haikala
New work
In this video performance, a woman attempts to defend a football goal.
Read more »Cuberdon
Eeva-Mari Haikala
New work
Cuberdon is a traditional Belgian sweet. It is also known with the name neuzeke, small nose. In this video performance, a woman tries to put neuzeke on her nose.
Read more »Zero Robots
Rosa Liksom
New work
A lonely robot living deep in an old-growth forest is looking for a friend. A friend is found from a production forest, and together, they set out for an adventure. They arrive in a desert rural village and settle down for a while in an abandoned house. They continue their travel and head for the city. Suddenly, they have... Read more »
Marja from Carelia
Rosa Liksom
New work
A documentary film tells the story of a gallerist Marjatta Nenander, born in the Finnish Carelia. After the outbreak of the Winter War, she had to flee first to Western Finland and then to Sweden, where she settled down after returning to Finland for some years.... Read more »
Go Hard – Door Closes
While following an endurance exercise in an almost empty ice hockey arena, the sound and movement of the rehearsal start to define the huge space. The massive wooden door of a cathedral closes slowly without sound. These vast spaces are animated by movement, sound and silence.
Read more »Seahorses
Sara Pathirane
New work
Seahorses depicts a dance of seahorses being born in ancient times in mythological land resembling to imaginary Lemuria. Later, far-away in the future, the seahorses wake up from their fossil bodies and through methamorphosis they achieve Rambo-like powers on a sandy beach. Seahorses is a non-linear choreography for camera... Read more »
Hemera - Awakening of Spring
Sara Pathirane
New work
Hemera – Awakening of Spring depicts a dance of a lady bug on the last day of spring just before summer breaks out. The wind blows still cold and wild waking up the lady bug and calling her for learning to fly. Through hardships and metamorphosis, the lady bug finds a new celestial body and grows herself wings that... Read more »
Complementarity
The principle of complementarity comes from quantum mechanics. The idea shows how physical reality is built of partly unpredictable elements, which cannot be known in their entirety. Complementarity embraces this uncertainty and celebrates the intrinsic duality of the world.
Read more »Inurement
Ilkka Pitkänen
New work
Karaisu (Inurement) is a performative video work about the so called dreamtime and man's alienated relationship with nature. The ritualistic music created by composer Ilari Edelmann and musician Olli Kari resonates with the soundscape of the environment and complements the work's dreamlike visual language.
Read more »Paris
Paula Saraste
New work
Paris is a story about a night and an idea that emerges and disappears. It is a portrayal of a mystical encounter and a journey that lasts only till the morning.
Read more »Minims
Minims is a multiplicity of small things. A poem about the building blocks of our environment, and our sensations. Just as reality is revealed to us in layers, the video is a collage of different videos of small events, constructing a larger structure.
Read more »Holy Spear
Sami Ala
New work
Holy Spear is a visual poem about the transformation of the value base of an era. Holy Spear is a video work that utilizes the context and imagery of sport. It contains Christian elements and mythology. These elements turn the content of the work towards a radical feminist line of thought. There is also humor in the... Read more »
August Joensalo’s Space Is Quite a Lot of Things at BFI Flare London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
August Joensalo’s Space Is Quite a Lot of Things (2021) was selected for BFI Flare London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, held in BFI Southbank from March 16-27 2022. Joensalo’s film is included in a joint screening with Angelo Madsen Minax’s feature-length… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Deus ex Machina at Regensburg Short Film Week
Anssi Kasitonni’s Deus Ex Machina will be screened at Regensburg Short Film Week, held from March 18-27 2022. The film will is included in the screening “Trash’n Fun”, running on Friday, March 18, at 21:00, and on Sunday, March 20,… Read more »
HNV Collective’s Atomic in the Video Competition of Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand
HNV Collective’s Atomic (2020) was selected for the Video Competition of Videoformes, held in Clermont-Ferrand from March 17-20 2022. Atomic is included in the competition screening 2, taking place on Saturday, March 19, at 13:00 in Maison de la Culture…. Read more »
AV-arkki’s showcase “Parts of the Whole” at Internationales Frauen Film Fest Dortmund + Köln, Cologne
Internationales Frauen Film Fest Dortmund + Köln presents a showcase from AV-arkki’s archive, titled “Die Teile des Ganzen” (“Parts of the Whole”). The festival will be held from March 29 to April 3 2022 in Cologne, Germany. Curated by Vivien… Read more »
Maija Tammi’s The Problem of the Hydra at Regard – Saguenay International Short Film Festival, Canada
Maija Tammi’s The Problem of the Hydra (2020) will be screened at Regard – Saguenay International Short Film Festival, one of the most important short film festivals in North America. The festival will be held from March 23-27 2022 in… Read more »
Mika Taanila’s Failed Emptiness. Time at International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA)
Mika Taanila’s Failed Emptiness. Time (2021) was selected for the experimental section of the International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA), held online from March 15–27 2022. Taanila’s film is included in the programme “The Eye Listens“. Failed Emptiness. Time… Read more »
AV-arkki delves into rituals, Sami Sänpäkkilä in focus, and other highlights at Tampere Film Festival
Tampere Film Festival presents a three-part retrospective and a masterclass by Sami Sänpäkkilä. AV-arkki’s this year’s collaborative screenings delve into rituals, both social and magical. AV-arkki also contributes to the festival’s industry programme with a panel discussion on short film… Read more »
AV-arkki ceases all collaboration with Russia for the time being
The board of AV-arkki has decided that AV-arkki will not collaborate with Russian organizations. We condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. For the time being, we will not submit nor distribute our artists’ works for the programmes of Russian events… Read more »
Dialogues
Alisa Javits
New work
Dialogues is a video about drug misuse and depression. One character is ill, the other the only one who sees or knows anything. They embody the voices of many. The video is about communication, fear, hiding and action. The viewer does not always know who is thinking or speaking.
Read more »Moon
In Mánnu, the yoik by sami musician Ánnámáret describes how the moon can take power over the viewer, putting him in danger and a state that cannot be escaped but must be confronted. On dark nights, one can imagine the Staalo, evil spirits in the indigenous sami mythology, walking in the northern... Read more »
Space Is Quite a Lot of Things
August Joensalo
New work
Curiosity about a world without gender sets a journey through a world of jellyfish and disco uncles, creating space for four trans people to share how they relate (or not) to their own gender, imagine visions of their own queer utopia, and reveal whether gender can be felt in your toes.
Read more »To Make a Film Just to Meet Vera
To Make a Film Just to Meet Vera (2021) is an experimental documentary about an encounter between two women, media artist Pinja Valja and model Vera Ruuska. As a child, Pinja dreamt of becoming a princess when she grows up. The main duty of the princess was to be beautiful, wear gorgeous clothes and be admired – just... Read more »
Minna Långström’s Photosphere at Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition
Minna Långström’s Photosphere (2021) was selected for Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s Spring Exhibition, open from February 6 to March 13 2022 in Denmark. Photosphere revolves around the connection between a Hollywood studio film laboratory and a solar observatory during the era of… Read more »
Photons of Mars
Minna Långström
New work
Photons of Mars depicts facilities dedicated to interplanetary research, and the people working in these spaces; a Mars rover driver and a worker in the laboratory where the rover’s cameras are made. Filmed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the piece reflects on how such close connection to the Martian... Read more »