AV-arkki’s short film screening presents three artists’ moving image works in which experimental music and sound play a central role.
Language: Eng Duration: 82 min Age Limit: 12+
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Sat 7.3. -
10:00 -
Finnkino Cine Atlas 4 -
12,50
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F086
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AV-arkki’s short film screening In and Out of Sync presents three artists’ moving image works in which experimental music and sound play a central role. The screening features Anton Nikkilä’s Literal Translations, which engages in dialogue with the history of avant-garde music; Minna-Kaisa Kallinen’s In and Out of Sync with Jenny, an experimental love letter to Norwegian musician Jenny Hval; and Almanach, a hypnotic video art piece by Monika Czyżyk & Neil Luck, part documentary, part music video, and part experimental performance.
According to Mika Taanila, Literal Translations (2018) ranks among the most Godardian films ever made in Finland: “It's a work that reflects upon itself – simultaneously a film and a depiction of its making. Its form is its content. High and low interlock organically: Malevich meets Future Bass! The seams of the citations show, teasing out the contradictory humour and self-critique of the work. Similarly to late-period Godard as well as to his British Sounds (1969), it's hard to pinpoint what is more important in Literal Translations, image or sound. And what's best, it doesn't resemble any of Godard's films!"
Anton Nikkilä (b. 1965) is a Helsinki-based composer, musician, and media artist.
In and Out of Sync with Jenny (2023), born out of the collaboration between Minna-Kaisa Kallinen, Aurora Ala-Hakula, and Mia and Heidi Wennerstrand, is a love letter to Jenny Hval and her music. The narrator of the video is a music listener, whose haunting voice drifts in and out of sync with the post-apocalyptic events of the world. In the future, the narrator dreams of attending one of Jenny’s concerts with friends. By weaving together magical imagery and a supernatural soundscape, the work conjures an enchanted space for encountering one another around music.
Minna-Kaisa Kallinen (b. 1984) is an artist and musician who also performs under the name Hulda Huima. She is the founder of the record label Minna Records.
Almanach (2025) is a collaborative work by Monika Czyżyk and composer Neil Luck, in which three figures transform natural elements and materials into music through a hypnotic dance of bodies, sounds, and landscapes. Participants include Boris Müller, a percussionist who crafts instruments from stone, shell, and other organic materials; Carlos Gutiérrez Quiroga, a composer inspired by traditional clay and wooden instruments; and Jürgen Essl, an acclaimed improvising pipe organist.
Blending different formats and sound practices, Almanach examines how ancient and contemporary human technologies collide, generating new ways of experiencing sound. It is also a joyful invitation to reach beyond the limits imposed by language.
Monika Czyżyk (b. 1989) is a Polish visual artist based in Helsinki. She works with dirty media – moving images, VR and clay – in the context of experimental documentaries and socially engaged projects.
The screening will be followed by a short Q&A with the filmmakers.
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Literal Translations
Suoria käännöksiäDirector: Anton NikkiläCountry: FinlandYear: 2018Genre: ExperimentalDuration: 33 minAn audio piece with on-screen texts that mixes old scriptures of Russian avant-garde art with atonal fields of sound, asymmetric synthetic rhythms and deadpan observations from a basement studio in Helsinki.
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In and Out of Sync with Jenny
Synkassa ja ei Jennyn kanssaDirector: Minna-Kaisa KallinenCountry: FinlandYear: 2023Genre: ExperimentalDuration: 13 minThe video essay is a love letter to Jenny Hval and her music. Music can connect me, and you, to a community where sound resonates between bodies. The narrator of the video is a music lover whose haunting voice is in and out of sync with the world's post-apocalyptic events. At the same time the narrator lives in the future and attends Jenny's gig with friends. This love letter is also secretly made for echolocating bats who are just as welcome in the audience as humans.
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Almanach
Director: Monika Czyżyk, Neil LuckCountry: United Kingdom, Germany, Finland, SwedenYear: 2025Genre: ExperimentalDuration: 36 minThree characters transform natural elements and materials into muses in a hypnotic, shamanistic dance of bodies, sounds and landscapes. Stones, shells, clay, wood and air ring together in ever-expanding audiovisual echoes.
