Harstad Kino, Screen 1
This year's opening film will be a preview of Triangle of Sadness, the winner of the Cannes Film Festival this year. Directed by Swedish Ruben Östlund, the director of The Square.
Also at the opening event we are premiering the commissioned work for AMIFF 2022 by artist HC Gilje: The intimacy of strangers. Read more about the film below. Friday 14 October at 17:00 hrs you can see the film and other work by the artist. The film programme is followed by a conversation between the artist and the curator Ida Lykken Ghosh.
Triangle of Sadness
With TRIANGLE OF SADNESS, Ruben Östlund casts his merciless satirical eye on the fashion industry and the super-rich. The model couple Carl & Yaya and some billionaires are vacationing on a luxury yacht when they encounter a storm. The boat sinks, and they are stranded on a deserted island. In the fight for survival, the hierarchy is turned upside down, and suddenly everyone is in an almost post-apocalyptic situation, where all civilization is gone.
Director: Ruben Östlund (Sweden, 2022)
Language: English (norwegian subtitles)
Actors: Woody Harrelson Harris Dickinson Charlbi Dean
Length: 2 hrs. 27 min.
Rated: 12 years old
The intimacy of strangers (HC Gilje, 10 min, 2022). Commission for AMIFF. Soundtrack by HC Gilje with drums by Justin Bennett.
The intimacy of strangers is a work that explores the microscopic landscapes of the lichen living on one rock in the stone fence around Trondenes Kirke.
Apart from the extreme variations in appearance, textures and color, lichens have become the poster organisms for a new biology which challenges the idea of the individual and supplements the theory of evolution. They also expose the limits of human knowledge, something explored in the writings of Alexander Bogdanov, Lynn Margulis, Donna Haraway and Merlin Sheldrake among others.
Lichen eat rock: Through a process called weathering they grow into the rock and inject strong chemicals and mine it for minerals that then becomes part of the eco system (and might end up in your body at some point). When lichen die they become the first nutrient-rich layer of soil on new land (and the oldest dated lichen is 9000 years old).
The most striking thing is that lichen is not one organism, but a symbiosis of several organisms from different kingdoms: Mainly a fungi that partners up with a photosynthesising organism (either algae or bacteria). In the context of evolution, when a branch diverges from another branch on the tree of life this means that a new organism with slighly different traits have evolved from its parent branch. What is going on with the lichen is that branches from completely different parts of the tree converge, or grow together, acquiring a completely new set of traits.
The film was created using a custom made computer-controlled mechanical stage and a digtital microscope combining almost 50 000 microscope still images into miniature landscapes.
During the festival you can go to Trondenes and have a look at the rock in the fence.
The Intimacy of Strangers (HC Gilje, 2022).