Mika Taanila’s Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow (1998) is on view at “Open House” exhibition about mobile housing in Geneva, Switzerland. The exhibition is taking place in Bains des Pâquis and Maison de l’architecture until October 3 2021…. Read more »
Jonna Kina’s Akiya at Filmfest Sundsvall
Jonna Kina’s Akiya (2020) is screened at Filmfest Sundsvall, held in Sweden and online from September 29 – October 3 2021. The screening of Akiya takes place on Friday, October 1. In Akiya, a reel-to-reel tape recorder plays a song… Read more »
Films by Jari Kallio & Essi Vesala, Iona Roisin, and Taija Goldblatt at queer and feminist film festivals
Three short films by AV-arkki’s artists were screened at various queer and feminist film festivals in September 2021. Jari Kallio’s and Essi Vesala’s Magma (2020, in featured image) was screened at The Palace International Film Festival in Bristol from September… Read more »
Saara Ekström’s Shadow Codex screened in Mexico, Italy, and Sweden
Saara Ekström’s Shadow Codex (2021) is screened at several film festivals during September and October. It was selected for the “Experimental International Showcase Shorts Program” at Shorts Mexico, taking place online until September 30. Shadow Codex will also be screened at… Read more »
Meet the Artist – Jenni Toikka
Jenni Toikka (b.1983) graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2012. She works mainly with moving image. We discussed her works, her inspirations and her future installation on Helsinki’s Music centre’s media wall, the largest digital screen in… Read more »
Short films by Finnish artists at Nordisk Panorama
Nordisk Panorama Film Festival will be held from September 16–21 2021 as an on-site event in Malmö, Sweden. The programme includes several short films from our artists. Maija Tammi’s and Pinja Valja’s short films were selected for the competitions of… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic screened at Festival Silhouette, Paris
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) will be screened in the “Selection Hybride” at Festival Silhouette, taking place from August 27 to September 4 in Parc de la Butte-du-Chapeau-Rouge, Paris. The screening is scheduled for Sunday, August 29, at 14:30. The… Read more »
Pilvi Takala’s If Your Heart Wants It (Remix) screened at Rencontres Internationales, Berlin
Pilvi Takala’s If Your Heart Wants It (Remix) (2020) will be screened at Rencontres Internationales Berlin, taking place until August 29 in Haus der Kulturen der Welt and online. Takala’s short film is included in the screening “The Machine Man… Read more »
Elina Oikari’s and Vesa-Pekka Rannikko’s short films in the Finnish focus at Concorto Film Festival
Elina Oikari’s Govadas (2018, in featured image) and Vesa-Pekka Rannikko’s Multi-Faith Prayer Room (2020) will be screened in the Finnish Focus at Concorto Film Festival, held online from August 21–28. Govadas explores the contradiction and harmony between humans and nature… Read more »
Videos by Eeva-Mari Haikala, Timo Bredenberg, Yassine Khaled, and HNV Collective at Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival
Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival (NEMAF) is held in South Korea from August 19–27. Four artist videos distributed by AV-arkki were selected for the Glocal Propose competition: Eeva-Mari’s Cries etc. (2020, in featured image) by Eeva-Mari Haikala, Liquidity… Read more »