Travel Exercises is a short film about dreams, the desire to travel and our ability to alter the reality through imagination.
Read more »The video depicts a day spent with a juniper. On 3 August 2019, I spent a day with a juniper on Utö, Finland, performing for camera every hour between 7 am and 9 pm, sitting next to the shrub, writing some notes after each session. The material is edited to include the spoken and recorded notes as a voice-over.
Read more »I am writing a letter to a dead spruce sitting on its trunk 29 September 2020 in the forest near Mustarinda house in Paljakkavaara in North-Eastern Finland. The read and recorded letter is added as a voiceover to the beginning of the video depicting its writing.
Read more »Risto-Pekka Blom’s Human Torch (2022) was awarded with a Honorable Mention in the Nordic Competition of Minimalen Short Film Festival, held from January 11–16 2022 in Trondheim, Norway. The Jury gave the mention “To a film that not only experiments… Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s My Home (2022) was selected for the Forum Expanded strand at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), held from February 10–20 2022. The festival will be organised as an in-person 2G-plus event (additional masking and testing requirement)…. Read more »
Talk About Society is a video work combining video images and photography-based animation. The three acts of the work reflect upon the metaphors we use to discuss the society or the state. How can we avoid language and imagery that makes us hostages to the public imagination?
Read more »An ex-saboteur gets back in the game and every trick will be exposed! A short action film about the joint adventure of indie filmmaking - with all the special effects.
Read more »Jenni Luhta’s and Lauri Luhta’s feature-length fiction film The Deluge (2020) was awarded for the Best Writing at Austin Arthouse Film Festival, held online from December 26–31 2021. The film was also nominated for the Best Arthouse film and the… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Deus ex Machina (2021, in featured image) and Mika Taanila’s Failed Emptiness. Time (2021) were selected for the International Competition of Stuttgarter Filmwinter, held online from January 7–16 2022. The online screenings are available in Germany only. Mika… Read more »
They Go Gentle Into That Night Work (2020) by Soile Mottisenkangas was awarded as the Best Experimental Documentary at Close:Up Edinburgh Docufest, held from December 16–17 2021 in Cameo Picturehouse. In this creative short documentary about rhythm of work, a… Read more »
The 34th Minimalen Short Film Festival will be held from January 11–16 2022 in Trondheim, Norway. Four short films by our artists were selected for the Nordic Competition: Mika Taanila’s Failed Emptiness. Time (2021), Matti Harju’s El Centro (2021), Azar… Read more »
As a follow-up for our first AV-arkki INFO seminars held in October 2020, we will host two online seminars for our member artists in January 2022. The seminars will be held in English. The sign-up for the attendees is open,… Read more »
Risto-Pekka Blom: The Human Torch (2022) Discover new fiction in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Risto-Pekka Blom: The Human Torch (2022, 05:56) We have acted according to the demands of society. We have followed… Read more »
Featured image from: Maija Tammi & Charles Quevillon: The 1m3 Human Experiment (2018) Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Annette Arlander: Sunday with a Pine – with text (2017, 08:12)… Read more »
Featured image: Salla Tykkä: Europe – Europa (2021) Our catalogue offers a diverse portrait of recent single channel art works by artists and filmmakers based in Finland. AV-arkki’s Distribution Catalogue 2021-2022 is intended for professional preview. The catalogue is distributed via AV-arkki’s… Read more »
Festival Tous Courts, held from November 30 to December 4 2021 in Aix-en-Provence, France, proved to be successful. Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic (2020) was awarded with the Grand Prix of the experimental competition, and Maija Tammi’s The Problem of… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) was selected for competition programmes of Laceno d’Oro International Film Festival, held from December 1–8 2021 in Avellino, Italy, and online, and Iran DocFest CinemaVerite, held from December 9–16 2021 in the Documentary and Experimental… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 4 New York, New York (2019) is streamed by Harvard Film Archive from December 3–6 2021 as double bill with Thomas Kneubühler’s Forward Looking Statements (2014). Waste no. 4 New York, New York revisits the history… Read more »
Featured image: Lauri Astala: Sketch for the Last Map (2022) Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Sami Ala: How It Was? (2022, 12:34) Four people who lived in the same… Read more »
Saara Ekström’s Body All Eyes (2018) is screened at the International Film Festival of Popular Science and Educational films “The World of Knowledge“, held in St. Petersburg from December 1–6 2021. The film is included in the screening “The Hallucination… Read more »
Featured image: Marja Viitahuhta: Dolat (2021) Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Dave Berg: The Incredible Beauty of Forgetting (2021, 11:09) A story of the consequences of the past unprocessed… Read more »
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic (2020) and Maija Tammi’s The Problem of the Hydra (2020, in featured image) were selected for the experimental competition of Festival Tous Courts, held in Aix-en-Provence, France, from November 30 – December 4 2021. Both… Read more »