8 June 11:00

The third Art for Art’s Sake screening of the Spring season is titled Above & Under and invites the viewers to consider the human coexistence with other animals and living beings. The title echoes the age-old division between the earth and the heavens, but also evokes the hierarchies humans have established in nature. The works in the programme look at how different living beings collaborate, co-create and come to understandings, for example through the process of ecological filmmaking or cultural correspondence. The films also critically examine how humans have historically undervalued non-human intelligence, have aimed to pathologize and control human diversity, and interfered in the animal world by selective breeding of various species for aesthetic purposes.

PROGRAMME

Müge Yıldız: Non/Living (2024) 10:36
Inari Sandell: Butterfly Logic (2024) 10:40
Miia Autio: Letter 1 / AIR (2024) 15:30
Leena Lehti: Existence (2023) 04:08
Marjo Levlin: Underdog (2024) 30:00
Salla Tykkä: Airs above ground 08:20

The duration of the screening is approximately one hour, and is followed by a Q&A with the artists Müge Yıldız, Leena Lehti and Marjo Levlin.

Art for Art’s Sake brings together artists’ moving image, media art and experimental film from Finland and around the world, novelties and classics. The series is a collaboration between AV-arkki and Cinema Orion and is curated by a working group consisting of Diego Ginartes, Sepideh Rahaa, Azar Saiyar and Avreno Heikka. The series has been supported by the Ministry of Education and Culture and the City of Helsinki and Kone Foundation.

Read more on AV-arkki’s website: https://www.av-arkki.fi/news/above-and-under/