An encounter in the woods sends a squirrel on an inner journey. No animals were harmed in the making of this film.
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Appu Jasu
New work
Earthbound
Milla-Kariina Oja
New work
Earthbound is a kind of a meditative journey into the depths of the Earth, inside the natural material of the stone itself. In this kaleidoscopically constructed film, nature draws its own mystical story, in which human beings play a part only for a brief moment. The work reflects on human beings’ intimate and... Read more »
He said we’d met in space and suggested we travel back together
Milla-Kariina Oja
New work
He said we’d met in space and suggested we travel back together is a two-channel spatial video installation, centred on a man and a woman who seem to have been inserted into this multidimensional cinematic world. To be in the world is apparently to be on the brink of absurdity. The difference between real and... Read more »
Four Sculptures in Fifteen Pieces
Jonna Kina
New work
Four Sculptures in Fifteen Pieces reflects on issues relating to creation and destruction. The sculptures seen in the film are excavated fragments from the ruins of an Art Museum of Estonia destroyed during the bombing of Tallinn in the spring of 1944. The fifteen pieces are originally from four different classical... Read more »
Stone under the Moon
Milla-Kariina Oja
New work
If nature had a mind, how would it work? Could we commune with it? How would it be possible to understand the innermost essence of a natural entity such as a stone or the wind? These questions have driven the odd imaginary world that Milla-Kariina Oja has constructed in the Stone under the Moon video installation. The... Read more »
Meet the Artist – Jenni Luhta
Jenni Luhta, who first became known by her maiden name Jenni Markkanen, has had two very different artistic identities. It is as if the two names denote two separate persons and careers. Now after ten years of work Jenni reflects… Read more »
Short films by Jenni Toikka and Sevgi Eker screened at Leuven Short Film Festival, Belgium
Preludi Op. 28 No. 2 (2022) by Jenni Toikka and 7 P.M. on a Sunday (2022, featured image) by Sevgi Eker are part of Leuven Short Film Festival in Belgium, held on December 2-10 2022. The short film by Toikka… Read more »
Metamorphosis by Hannaleena Heiska screened at Kinoskop Festival, Serbia
Hannaleena Heiska’s short film Metamorphosis (2022) has been selected to Kinoskop – Analog Experimental Film Festival. The Festival is held on December 2-4 2022 in Belgrade, Serbia. Metamorphosis is part of a screening called “Bodies in Ecstasy“, taking place on… Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s My Home part of short-movies competion at Laceno d’Oro in Italy
My Home (2022) by Azar Saiyar is included in short-movies competition “Gli occhi sulla città” at Laceno d’Oro International Film Festival. Saiyar’s short film is part of the competition’s subschedule #2, taking place on December 2 2022 at 4:30 PM…. Read more »
Those Who Kept the Light / Seaweed
Nastja Säde Rönkkö
New work
Those Who Kept the Light is a series of videos exploring our dependent relationship with the sea, in a context of queer and feminist maritime narratives. The narratives are told through the context of human and other-than-human love stories; the wind or the ocean are seen as entities with consciousness, emotions and a... Read more »
House of the Wickedest Man in the World
Jan Ijäs
New work
House of the Wickedest Man in the World is the story of a ruined building near the city of Cefalú in Sicily. In the early 1920s, Aleister Crowley, the most famous occultist of his time, lived in the building, practicing magical rituals, and using hard drugs to heighten their intensity. Crowley also painted frescoes... Read more »
Her Subjects
Johanna Lecklin
New work
The stop motion animation Her Subjects draws attention to the power of the royals on their subjects, such as the colonies. It consists of three parts. The piece discusses questions of power in a time, when the thought of some peoples’ inherent privilege seems outdated. It considers traditions of the monarchy, which... Read more »
New short fiction and experimental films in AV-arkki’s archive / Fall ’22
Featured image from Elina Oikari: Flying Potato and Other Misunderstandings (2021) Discover AV-arkki’s latest acquisitions for our online archive below. For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Short fiction Pasi Autio: Feel the Heat (2022, 09:06) Feel the Heat… Read more »
New animations in AV-arkki’s archive / Fall ’22
The Pink Twins: The Transient (2023) Discover new animations in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Timo Bredenberg: Legacy (2022, 04:00) This photogrammetry-based animation documents the demolition of a former state office building. In addition… Read more »
New short documentaries, essay films and performance videos in AV-arkki’s archive / Fall ’22
Featured image from: Helka Heinonen: The Swirl (2022) Discover AV-arkki’s latest acquisitions for our online archive below. For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Documentary form and essay films Liinu Grönlund: Scope (2021, 10:40) This video is… Read more »
Amnion
Saara Ekström
New work
Landfills on the fringes of cities reveal all about our culture, habits, fears and desires. Here treasures turn into trash and the excess of our discarded welfare and cheap labor dances in the wind. Shot in 8mm film, Amnion (innermost membrane enclosing an embryo) is a dark and melancholy vision, where the organic merges... Read more »
Infantasy
Kristoffer Ala-Ketola
New work
Infantasy is an audiovisual meditation on the semiotic connections between rest, work, death, and liminal space. The work seeks to describe the loss of consciousness, exhaustion, inactivity, exertion, the artistic process, and the interstices of these concepts with a dreamlike logic. Pillows and blankets equate to snow and... Read more »
O.
Anna-Sofia Nylund
New work
The short film O. explores the feeling of religious extasis. Can the same emotion be received through art-making? A group of people is trying to get rid of their egos and reach a specific state of mind called O.
Read more »Infatuation with the Never Ending Past
Kristoffer Ala-Ketola
New work
Ala-Ketola combines vignettes of his personal life with constructed studio imagery to portray a queer journey which juxtaposes the personal and shared, symbolist and documentative, directed and intuitive, archived and edited.
Read more »Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur tours the world
Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur (2022) and Deus ex Machina (2021) have been screened at several film festivals this fall – and there are more to come. In Le Saboteur, an ex-saboteur gets back in the game and every trick will… Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s Laila’s Apple selected for 20minmax International Short Film Festival Ingolstadt
Azar Saiyar’s Laila’s Apple (2021) will be screened at 20minmax International Short Film Festival Ingolstadt, held from November 18–25 2022 in Germany. Laila’s Apple will be screened in the programme “Touching Moments” on Saturday, November 19, at 20:00 and on… Read more »
Risto-Pekka Blom’s The Human Torch and Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur selected for Black Nights Film Festival Tallinn and Interfilm Short Film Festival Berlin
Risto-Pekka Blom’s The Human Torch (2022, in featured image) and Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur (2022) were selected for the short film competitions of Black Nights Film Festival, held in Tallinn, Estonia, from November 11–27 2022. Both films will also be… Read more »
Ánnámáret’s and Marja Viitahuhta’s collaboration in Mundial Montréal
Ánnámáret is one of the selected official showcase artists in Mundial Montréal, a world music event taking place in Canada from November 15–18 2022. In Ánnámáret’s audiovisual concept Nieguid Duovdagat, Ánnámáret’s music and Marja Viitahuhta’s video art gain influence from… Read more »
Visual Meditation
Teemu Raudaskoski
New work
Visual meditation is an abstract animation. Its organic visual world prompts us to stop and remind us of the diversity of nature around us and its uniqueness.
Read more »Anni Puolakka’s, Jenni Toikka’s, and Noora Geagea’s videos at Instants Vidéo
Anni Puolakka’s From the Heart (2021, in featured image), Jenni Toikka’s Prelude Op. 28 No. 2 (2022) and Noora Geagea’s Life Goals (2020) are included in the programme of Instants Vidéo, held in Marseille, France, and Milan, Italy, from November… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s and Pilvi Takala’s videos included in the e-flux screening programme “Takeover”
Jonna Kina’s Secret Words and Related Stories (2016, in featured image) and Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker (2017) are included in the screening programme “Takeover“, streamed in e-flux during the fall 2022 and curated by Julian Ross. The programme explores the… Read more »
I Call Them Glowsuckers
Minna-Kaisa Kallinen
New work
I Call Them Glowsuckers lets the viewer experience the extraordinary encounter of a swimmer and an unknown sea creature. At first the swimmer is horrified, but soon also enchanted by her discovery. In a short period of time the creatures take over her daily life, as her endless curiosity brings her ever deeper into their... Read more »
Holy Dolls
Maippi Ketola
New work
Holy Dolls in a grand meeting of the nations. All the dolls collected by my grandparents from 1963 to 2012 are invited.
Read more »Swan Song
Maippi Ketola
New work
A dancer built from plastic trash, a lonely swan, dances Le Cygne (Swan) part of Camille Saint-Saëns' Carnival of Animals, choreographed by Michel Fokine for Anna Pavlova in 1905, on the calm water surface littered with plastic trash.
Read more »White House
Maippi Ketola
New work
We are standing right in front of the End, led by the greedy, ridiculous and cruel. Soon it will all stop. Everything we build turns into the dust under the burning Sun or will be wiped into the sea and there will be no one to remember.
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