Let the River Flow
Copyright: Mer Film
SUNDAY OCTOBER 15. 8PM @Harstad CINEMA, ROOM 2.
Director: Ole Giæver
Language:: Norwegian/Sami
Year: 2023
Runtime: 122 min.
PG 12
Historical drama about the Alta controversy and the fight for Sami rights in the late 1970s
Ester hides her identity to avoid being exposed to racism. When Ester suddenly finds herself in the middle of demonstrations against a big dam development in Alta, a personal journey out of the shame she has carried so long begins.
Just a Movement
Copyright: TrAP
SUNDAY OCTOBER 15. 6PM @Harstad CINEMA, ROOM 2
Documentary from 2021 about Omar Blondin Diop and a tribute to Godard
The film is part of a series curated by Hanan Benammar and Brynjar Bjerkem for the art producer Transcultural Arts Production (TrAP) and will be shown in cinemas in Oslo, Trondheim, Bergen and Tromsø, as well as at the Arctic Moving Image & Film Festival in Harstad.
ABOUT JUST A MOVEMENT
Omar Blondin Diop was an activist philosophy student in Nanterre, France, when in 1967 he played himself in Jean - Luc Godard’s "La chinoise". His appearance in that film provides the only moving images of Diop in this intellectually stimulating portrait of a man striving for a permanent state of revolution in a tumultuous time that was teeming with political movements.
Diop’s friends and brothers—filmed in profile and in minimal, painterly light —recall his deep involvement in the student protests of May 1968 and his resistance in Senegal against the French- backed regime of Léopold Sédar Senghor. Interspersing the interviews with archive footage and fragments from "La chinoise" creates a complex construction of multilayered imagery. This is, then, also a film about the stylistic components used to tell a story — in this case the story of someone who can no longer tell it himself, because Diop died in 1973 in a Senegalese prison.
Ultimately, "Just a Movement" doesn’t so much explain who Omar Blondin Diop was as much as present the ways in which he lives on: in the stories and memories of his brothers, in Godard’s film, and in today’s youth movements in Senegal
Originaltitle: Juste un mouvement
Director: Vincent Meessen
Language: French, wolof and mandarin
Subtitles: English
Runtime: 1h 50 min
PG 15
Credits:
Director: Vincent Meessen
Production: Genevieve De Bauw namens Thank You & Good Night productions
Co-production: Jubilee, Spectre productions, CBA, Magellan Films
Cinematography: Vincent Pinckaers
Editing: Simon Arazi
Sound: Laszlo Umbreit
Sound Design: Rémi Gérard
Music: Wouter Vandenabeele, Bao Sissoko
Exhibition event 3: End of the World / SASUSU Radio
Exhibition event 3 Sunday October 15. @3.30 pm at Galleri Nord-Norge
Read more about the content in the events listed below here.
(FREE ENTRY)
LIST OF EVENTS:
Friday 13 October at 17:00: Exhibition opening and live radio broadcast
Saturday 14 October at 11:30 - Artist collective SASUSU Radio in conversation with curator Kjetil Berge.
Saturday 14 October at 18:00 - Tamil food, performance and live radio broadcast
Sunday 15 October at 15:30 - Live radio broadcast
The exhibition lasts until October 22.
During ARCTIC MOVING IMAGE & FILM FESTIVAL 2023, SASUSU Radio invites to the exhibition "Verdens ende" (“The end of the world”). SASUSU Radio is a project-based artist collective consisting of Henrik Sørlid, Ellen Vikström, Mimii, Jette Graaner and Sanjey Sureshkumar.
The group works with a temple as a meeting place, a place for healing and mythology. With “The end of the world” as a direct thread between the time we live in and the end of the world, the artist group wants to create dialogue in Harstad. With a programme consisting of cooking and tea-drinking, radio programmes, music and performance, together with guests in and outside Harstad, SASUSU Radio welcomes you to life at The end of the world.
A little more about the artist collective SASUSU Radio:
SASUSU Radio is a migrant meeting place that has since 2021 searched for connections between the Eelam-Tamil island landscape and the Tamil diaspora in Norway. In the reincarnation of Eelam-Tamil culture created by encounters with and between peoples, place relations and migratory revivals, older traditions are presented in new refuges, and new traditions in older haunts. The radio's expression is channeled through collaboration and family ties that take place over time and in various works. The projects are fleeting and limitless and are shaped in the presence, where human coexistence highlights our everyday life and we who are part of it. Between physical and common points of reference, the radio tries to take root in the contexts that exist and are rooted in society, past and future.
Suspended in Celluloid - Artist conversation
STILL: Beth von Undall, Jailbreak Brenna – 0.1: the dirty alpha , 2023
ART INSTALLATION IN A SUIT AT CLARION COLLECTION HOTEL ARCTICUS
SATURDAY 14. OCTOBER 9:00-14:00
SUNDAY 15. OCTOBER 9:00 - 12:30
ARTIST TALK
SUNDAY 15. OCTOBER 14:30 -15:00 at Harstad Cinema Sal 2.
With: Live Drønen, Beth von Undall, Sue de Beer (Sue de Beer is participating on line)
STILL: Beth von Undall, Jailbreak Brenna – 0.1: the dirty alpha , 2023
Frozen / AMIFF kids
Sunday 15 October 1pm. Screen 1 Harstad Kino
This year marks the 10 years anniversery of the first Frost film, and we are celebrating with a Frost party for children and children at heart at the AMIFF film festival at Harstad Kino. The film celebrates that we are all different and that it is important to accept that we are all unique. No one is perfect and everyone has qualities that make them special. Therefore, the film fits into this year's theme of AMIFF, BEND IT, MAYBE, which is intended as an open and solution-oriented call for considerations around relational themes, with a focus on identity and belonging.
In addition, the film is set in an environment that can be reminiscent of the Arctic. There is a reindeer in the film, and one of the characters Kristoffer is based on a Sami man. Nevertheless, it was not until Frost II that the Sami community was invited by Disney to give their opinion on how the Sami elements in the film should be presented.
About the movie:
When a spell enchants a kingdom into eternal winter, fearless optimist Anna decides to embark on an epic journey to find her sister Elsa, the Snow Queen, and put an end to her icy curse. She has with her on the journey the experienced mountaineer Kristoffer and his good friend, the reindeer Svein. On their journey through valleys and over mountains in a landscape reminiscent of Norway, they meet mysterious trolls and a wonderfully funny snowman called Olaf. There are magical conditions on every mountain peak and together they must fight against the icy elements to save the kingdom from eternal damnation.
Directed by Chris Buck ("Tarzan," "Surf's Up") and Jennifer Lee (screenwriter, "Rive-Rolf"), the film is produced by Peter Del Vecho ("Ole Brum," "The Princess and the Frog").
Frozen (2013) 108 minutes. Norwegian speech and text. Age limit 6 years (allowed for children from 0 years accompanied by adults)
Prolazi izmedju 1980-2021 (Passages between 1980-2021)
Still from Prolazi izmedju 1980-2021
SUNDAY OCTOBER 15. 12:30 PM @ HARSTAD CINEMA, ROOM 2
"Prolazi izmedju 1980-2021" is Tromsø Kunstforening's selection for Artists' Film International 2023. PG 15
In "Prolazi izmedju 1980-2021 (Passages between 1980-2021)" Avdagic works with five adult Bosnian/Norwegians who came to Norway as child refugees in the early 90s during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.
Together, the group performs testimonies, gathered from members of their parents' and grandparents' generation. The testimonies trace the development of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia in the period between 1980-1995.
In-between the readings, the participants interrupt their roles, they switch between languages and engage in conversations where they discuss their experiences surrounding national, social, and political affiliation.
Still from Prolazi izmedju 1980-2021
Art workshop for kids
Photo: Kjersti G. Gjærum
(THE WORKSHOP FOR AMIFF2023 IS NOW FULL 10.10.23)
Sunday October 15. 10PM @Harstad Cinema
Art workshop for children aged 2-5 years of age. The experienced workshop leader, artist Dora Galveia, will take the kids and their parents on an exciting journey in artistic expressions related to film.
Maximum 10 children.
Guardians must be with the kids throughout the session.
Free, but signing up is necessary. You can do so to Dora at dora.galveia @ gmail.com
Location: Harstad Cinema, foaje
Suspended in Celluloid - Art installation
STILL: Beth von Undall, Jailbreak Brenna – 0.1: the dirty alpha , 2023
ART INSTALLATION IN A SUIT AT CLARION COLLECTION HOTEL ARCTICUS (Free entry)
SATURDAY 14. OCTOBER 9:00-14:00
SUNDAY 15. OCTOBER 9:00 - 12:30
ARTIST TALK (Free entry)
SUNDAY 15. OCTOBER 14:30 -15:00 at Harstad Cinema Sal 2.
With: Live Drønen, Beth von Undall, Sue de Beer (Sue de Beer is participating on line)
In a suite at the hotel Clarion Arcticus Harstad, Suspended in Celluloid presents two works dealing with questions around ghostliness, social-psychological phenomena, and the affective impacts of technology. Beth von Undall’s Jailbreak Brenna 0.1 (2023) is a video game based on the game-theoretical premise ‘the prisoner’s dilemma’, featuring the underground Berlin-persona Brenna O. In the exhibition, viewers are invited to lay down on the hotel bed and decide on whether they want to conspire with or betray this alluring figure. On the grand room’s other screen, Sue de Beer’s The Ghosts (2011) similarly includes figures from the artists’ own circle: in this film painter Jutta Koether appears in the role of a hypnotist, whose powers lead distressed clients into dream-like states of confusion and hallucination. Within the walls of the hotel room’s decades-old interiors, the longing and desire emanating from both works seems to be suspended in the air.
Curated by Live Drønen, whose longer text on the presentation will be available in the suite.
*The exhibition title is borrowed from a monologue in Sue de Beer’s The Ghosts: “When I sleep I see you suspended in celluloid, a slow moving black and white film that brings you to me in fragments, small disembodied landscapes that rush in and out of focus.”
STILL: Beth von Undall, Jailbreak Brenna – 0.1: the dirty alpha , 2023
Alanngut Killinganni (The Edge of the Shadows)
SATURDAY 14 October. Harstad Cinema
HORROR FILM FROM GREENLAND
Director: Malik Kleist. Greenland (2023). English subtitles. 119 minutes. PG 15
For the first time, Greenland is in the competition for the Nordic Council's film prize. Now you have the unique chance to watch the Greenlandic film that has been nominated.
Here is the reason the Nordic Council has given for nominating this film:
"With his unique ability to build on Inuit stories and mythology, the director in Alanngut Killinganni (The Edge of the Shadows) combines modern storytelling techniques with humor and horror from the oral Greenlandic storytelling tradition. One of the film's central elements is therefore its use of Greenlandic stories and mythology, which are woven into the story in a natural and authentic way.
The Greenlandic landscapes are also included as a central element in the film, where breathtaking views of the mountains and the sea form a fantastic backdrop for the action. The beautiful landscapes enhance a sense of fear and unease and add an extra dimension to the exciting action.
The film explores important themes related to grief, community and tradition. It is seen in the clash between civilisations, city and country, and the natural and the mystical as well as in the respect for nature and history. There are things out there that we don't know about. The film places itself elegantly in the more recent tradition of "arctic chills" from the high north."
ABOUT THE MOVIE:
Eight years have passed since six young people were attacked by a Qivittoq (a Greenlandic legendary figure). Tuuma is a tourist guide in Greenland and often sails with tourists in this arctic area. On a trip, the two Danish tourists want to go to the site of the attack and manage to persuade a reluctant Tuuma. His bad feeling unfortunately becomes a reality and the two tourists disappear. Tuuma quickly sails back to Nuuk to get help from the police, who at first do not take him seriously. But is it a good idea to go back and look for the tourists, when the Qivittoqs are in the mountains? In this film we are not exposed to monsters, vampires or zombies. The Edge of the Shadow explores a scary being from Inuit mythology, if you left society out of jealousy, anger or shame and went to the mountains to live alone you could become a qvittoq. Here, the mythology is staged in a classic low-budget horror film format.
Exhibition event 2: End of the World / SASUSU Radio
Exhibition event 2 Thursday October 14. @6.pm at Galleri Nord-Norge
Read more about the content of the events at this exhibition at sasusu.com here.
(FREE ENTRY)
LIST OF EVENTS:
Friday 13 October at 17:00: Exhibition opening and live radio broadcast
Saturday 14 October at 11:30 - Artist collective SASUSU Radio in conversation with curator Kjetil Berge.
Saturday 14 October at 18:00 - Tamil food, performance and live radio broadcast
Sunday 15 October at 15:30 - Live radio broadcast
The exhibition lasts until October 22.
During ARCTIC MOVING IMAGE & FILM FESTIVAL 2023, SASUSU Radio invites to the exhibition "Verdens ende" (“The end of the world”). SASUSU Radio is a project-based artist collective consisting of Henrik Sørlid, Ellen Vikström, Mimii, Jette Graaner and Sanjey Sureshkumar.
The group works with a temple as a meeting place, a place for healing and mythology. With “The end of the world” as a direct thread between the time we live in and the end of the world, the artist group wants to create dialogue in Harstad. With a programme consisting of cooking and tea-drinking, radio programmes, music and performance, together with guests in and outside Harstad, SASUSU Radio welcomes you to life at The end of the world.
A little more about the artist collective SASUSU Radio:
SASUSU Radio is a migrant meeting place that has since 2021 searched for connections between the Eelam-Tamil island landscape and the Tamil diaspora in Norway. In the reincarnation of Eelam-Tamil culture created by encounters with and between peoples, place relations and migratory revivals, older traditions are presented in new refuges, and new traditions in older haunts. The radio's expression is channeled through collaboration and family ties that take place over time and in various works. The projects are fleeting and limitless and are shaped in the presence, where human coexistence highlights our everyday life and we who are part of it. Between physical and common points of reference, the radio tries to take root in the contexts that exist and are rooted in society, past and future.
I CAME HERE TO LEARN - The Film Arts School in Kabelvåg UiT
LØRDAG 14. Oktober 4 PM @Harstad Kino, sal 2
I CAME HERE TO LEARN
The Film Arts School in Kabelvåg (FiK) shows I CAME HERE TO LEARN; a programme consisting of short films, sketch films and school assignments, all created by the film school's current students. The programme shows the school's film language diversity, where both the technical, aesthetic and narrative aspects are explored and challenged. The program title, I CAME HERE TO LEARN, is taken from an earlier draft of one of the films; a humble comment on the landscape the film moves in. It is also a promise. The same promise is found throughout the programme, where the audience will experience sketches still in process as well as finished works. With it, you get a unique insight into how the students at the film art school in Kabelvåg are learning about the moving image - right now.
Programme:
Feelings From Another World (7 min) Abel Skancke Aarflot
OverwritingMemory_FullHD.mp4 (7 min) Tandi Reason Dahl
Indimellem tænker jeg på denne sang / Once in a While I Think of This Song (8 min) Nanna Hovedskov
Maskin / Machine (5 min) Thale Stana
Fags Talking (10 min) Jack S. Lowe & Hanna Persson
Lofoten 7.December / Lofoten 7 December (12 min) Mads Toft Hansen
Til fredag / For Friday (3 min) Nora Aarrestad
PG 15 år
Weeds and Aliens
Still from Fatou Åsbakk’s film “Acting out fourteen in front of an audience, to be able to fully appreciate soon becoming forty a.k.a. finished researching and start life 4 real, according to Jung”
SATURDAY OCTOBER 14. 2PM-3:30PM. HARSTAD CINEMA - CINEMAROOM 2
Artfilmprogram: Weeds and Aliens
Curated by Ida Lykken Ghosh/ Atelier Nord
Artists in conversation with curator after screening: Fatou Åsbakk and Eli Mai Huang Nesse.
This eclectic program brings together seven artists, showing works spanning from 1987 to 2023. Encouraging a position of embrace, through daydreaming, with humor and a sense of open-mindedness.
LIST OF FILMS:
Eli Mai Huang: I Forgot My Grandparents’ Names
8:42 min. 2018
Sunil Gupta: Cock Crazy or scared stiff
5.27 min.1992/ 93
Marte Gunnufsen: Queen!
4:20 min. 2018
Qi Tan: Shadow Bugs
6:50 min. 2021
Inger Lise Hansen: Static
4:43 min. 1995
Ann-Elise Pettersen Hyndøy: Terra Pax (Drøm)
20:45 min. 1987
Fatou Åsbakk: Acting out fourteen in front of an audience, to be able to fully appreciate soon becoming forty a.k.a. finished researching and start life 4 real, according to Jung
2 min. 2023
The title derives from a book by artist, fashion designer and photographer Benjamin Alexander Huseby from 2015. Described as an “occasionally arbitrary collection of photographs of some rather wonderful, useful plants, normally considered weeds,” the story of weeds is the story of man and civilisation, of agriculture and migration. Juxtaposing weeds and humanity, Huseby describes being between places and a present condition between velocity and abandonment.
Stills fro Eli Mai Huang’s film: I Forgot My Grandparents’ Names
Aldersgrense 15 år
Panel Discussion: - Bend it, maybe
SATURDAY 14 OCTOBER AT: 12:00- 12:00, GALLERI NORD-NORGE
A panel discussion revolving around the theme for AMIFF 2023; BEND IT, MAYBE
FREE EVENT at GALLERY NORD-NORGE: Normanns gate 1, 9405 Harstad
Panelists: SASUSU RADIO (artist collective), Louisa Minkin (artist), and Davvet B. Solbakk (journalist and activist). Moderator: Hanne Hammer Stien (art historian, UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
Curator Kjetil Berge is behind this year’s theme, BEND IT, MAYBE. Here is the curator text:
"This year's festival title, BENDIT, MAYBE, is conceived as an open and solution-oriented call for deliberations on relational themes, with a focus on identity and affiliation.
These themes are constant topics in human interaction. In social media the stream of opinions flows on a large and persistent battlefield full of combative headlines with polarising and predictable arguments. Trolls and bots fight to publicise othering opinions with hateful headlines about people they don’t think belong. A bullying attitude meant to exclude people from the public debate as well as IRL.
BEND IT, MAYBE encourages a position of embrace, it shows the beginning of a curve, that can accommodate and change direction. It is humorous, invites reflection and deliberation and is an alternative to a default defensive stance. To envisage flexibility, afterthought, inclusion and open-mindedness as effective tools in relational power structures seems radical at this point.”
-Kjetil Berge
Artist talk: End of the World / SASUSU Radio
Artist talk Saturday October 14. at 11.30 am at Galleri Nord-Norge
(FREE ENTRY)
Read more about the content of the events at sasusu.com here.
LIST OF EVENTS:
Friday 13 October at 17:00: Exhibition opening and live radio broadcast
Saturday 14 October at 11:30 - Artist collective SASUSU Radio in conversation with curator Kjetil Berge.
Saturday 14 October at 18:00 - Tamil food, performance and live radio broadcast
Sunday 15 October at 15:30 - Live radio broadcast
The exhibition lasts until October 22.
During ARCTIC MOVING IMAGE & FILM FESTIVAL 2023, SASUSU Radio invites to the exhibition "Verdens ende" (“The end of the world”). SASUSU Radio is a project-based artist collective consisting of Henrik Sørlid, Ellen Vikström, Mimii, Jette Graaner and Sanjey Sureshkumar.
The group works with a temple as a meeting place, a place for healing and mythology. With “The end of the world” as a direct thread between the time we live in and the end of the world, the artist group wants to create dialogue in Harstad. With a programme consisting of cooking and tea-drinking, radio programmes, music and performance, together with guests in and outside Harstad, SASUSU Radio welcomes you to life at The end of the world.
A little more about the artist collective SASUSU Radio:
SASUSU Radio is a migrant meeting place that has since 2021 searched for connections between the Eelam-Tamil island landscape and the Tamil diaspora in Norway. In the reincarnation of Eelam-Tamil culture created by encounters with and between peoples, place relations and migratory revivals, older traditions are presented in new refuges, and new traditions in older haunts. The radio's expression is channeled through collaboration and family ties that take place over time and in various works. The projects are fleeting and limitless and are shaped in the presence, where human coexistence highlights our everyday life and we who are part of it. Between physical and common points of reference, the radio tries to take root in the contexts that exist and are rooted in society, past and future.
Suspended in Celluloid - Art installation
STILL: Beth von Undall, Jailbreak Brenna – 0.1: the dirty alpha , 2023
ART INSTALLATION IN A SUIT AT CLARION COLLECTION HOTEL ARCTICUS (free engry)
SATURDAY 14. OCTOBER 9:00-14:00
SUNDAY 15. OCTOBER 9:00 - 12:30
ARTIST TALK (free enry)
SUNDAY 15. OCTOBER 14:30 -15:00 at Harstad Cinema Sal 2.
With: Live Drønen, Beth von Undall, Sue de Beer (Sue de Beer is participating on line)
In a suite at the hotel Clarion Arcticus Harstad, Suspended in Celluloid presents two works dealing with questions around ghostliness, social-psychological phenomena, and the affective impacts of technology. Beth von Undall’s Jailbreak Brenna 0.1 (2023) is a video game based on the game-theoretical premise ‘the prisoner’s dilemma’, featuring the underground Berlin-persona Brenna O. In the exhibition, viewers are invited to lay down on the hotel bed and decide on whether they want to conspire with or betray this alluring figure. On the grand room’s other screen, Sue de Beer’s The Ghosts (2011) similarly includes figures from the artists’ own circle: in this film painter Jutta Koether appears in the role of a hypnotist, whose powers lead distressed clients into dream-like states of confusion and hallucination. Within the walls of the hotel room’s decades-old interiors, the longing and desire emanating from both works seems to be suspended in the air.
Curated by Live Drønen, whose longer text on the presentation will be available in the suite.
*The exhibition title is borrowed from a monologue in Sue de Beer’s The Ghosts: “When I sleep I see you suspended in celluloid, a slow moving black and white film that brings you to me in fragments, small disembodied landscapes that rush in and out of focus.”
STILL: Beth von Undall, Jailbreak Brenna – 0.1: the dirty alpha , 2023
>Would You Die For Me? Happiness Stained. All Over.
Installasjon photo at Atelier Nord during the screening of “Yes to Life”, 2013 by Louisa Minkin at the exchibition Bend It. Photo: Dok Istvan Virag
FREDAG 13 OKTOBER KL 20:20 Harstad KINO, SAL 2
>would you die for me?
Happiness stained.
All over
A 30 minute playlist of works made between 2008 and 2021.
List of videos
Michael Curran & Louisa Minkin:
The Sun and the Moon [excerpt]
60 min, 2008Louisa Minkin og Francis Summers (LMFS):
Would You Die For Me.
7:09 min, 2016LMFS:
How to Accommodate Grief in Your Life.
5:10 min, 2016:
Voice: Dead HorsleyLouisa Minkin:
Eat Work [excerpt]
00:15 sec, 2021Louisa Minkin:
I’m Wishing [excerpt]
00:30 sec, 2017
Voice: HausuLMFS:
Conflictual Circulation,
6:40 min, 2016-2021.
Voice: HausuLouisa Minkin:
Yes to Life
6:30 min, 2013Louisa Minkin
Tiger Lady animation [excerpt]
for Viralux, Gordon Dawson & Trish Lyons, 2019
The Sun and The Moon is a 60 minute performance to camera piece made by Michael Curran and Louisa Minkin in 2008. The Sun and the Moon keep time, moving back and forth like clockwork. The light changes and their gestures become charged.
Yes to Life was made over 2012 as the military entertainment complex flexed its wings. It’s a supercut glitch-remix of two video covers of Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Call Me Maybe' by the Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders and members of the US Marine Corps stationed in Khandahar, Afghanistan. Native to youtube it is a kind of fan-form of acting out, where gesture and gender are entangled.
Three of the videos in this screening [>would you die for me?, How to Accommodate Grief in Your Life and Conflictual Circulation] are part of the larger Dead End project co-created by LMFS [Louisa Minkin and Francis Summers] who have been ‘making banners sometimes’ since 2012. This work explores the subcultural phenomenon of griefing within online culture, posing modes of image-gathering that grief play has generated in the now ‘dead end’ world of Second Life, a Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) environment. Using screen capture alongside photogrammetry we documented a world built and razed digitally by a now dormant group of anonymous gamers called the Yung Cum Bois (YCBs). They read poetry back to us, invoking networked pathologies, image dumps, blockaded communication networks. An imagist and splenetic journey through griefing as counter-protocol in our contemporary digital agora.
The short, animated videos [Eat Work, I’m Wishing and Tiger Lady] use motion capture to apply gesture to 3D characters. Gesture here is the kind of heraldic movement described by Brecht, where action becomes politics, an embodiment of social relationships.
PG 15
Louisa Minkin is an artist based in London, UK. She is a Reader in Visual Art Practices at Central Saint Martins. Her research comprises a number of strands developed within a process-driven methodology that is often collaborative and always transdisciplinary in approach. She is currently working on Prisoners of Love: affect, containment and alternative futures. This project aims to connect UK collection items with their trans-national homes and bring emerging artists from diasporic communities in the UK, curators and researchers into conversation. The idea is to work responsively with complex histories and material practices, opening out extrainstitutional art and archival practices in the form of artwork, story and theory.
Minkin can edit with jog shuttle and is fascinated by frame rates and time zones.
Extraordinary Me
Copyright: Einar/Euforia
Friday October 13. 6:30 PM . Harstad Cinema. Room 2
Documentary
G.
Norwegian language
72 min
About the documentary
Ola is 30 years old and lives with many different people in the village of Vidaråsen, which lies between Tønsberg and Sandefjord. Here they live close to nature, at a slower pace and the small community is founded on inclusion, understanding and respect.
Ola is a committed, funny and honest guy. He has a mild developmental disability and talks openly and with wonder about this, but I wonder if people see him primarily as a person with a diagnosis? When Ola loses an important piece in his life, he reflects on life and what he can do to become more independent.
"Ola – an ordinary unusual guy" is a heartwarming film about equality, belonging and the importance of feeling safe enough to be who you are. It is a close and honest portrait, which helps to break down the distinction between "us" and "them".
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Originaltitle:Ola – En helt vanlig uvanlig fyr
Director i:Ragnhild Nøst Bergem
Premiere: 13. oktober 2023
Copyright: Einar/Euforia
Exhibition opening: End of the World / SASUSU Radio
Exhibition opening Friday October 13. @5.pm at Galleri Nord-Norge
(FREE ENTRY)
Read more about the exhibition and the content of the events as part of the exhibition here.
LIST OF EVENTS:
Friday 13 October at 17:00: Exhibition opening and live radio broadcast
Saturday 14 October at 11:30 - Artist collective SASUSU Radio in conversation with curator Kjetil Berge.
Saturday 14 October at 18:00 - Tamil food, performance and live radio broadcast
Sunday 15 October at 15:30 - Live radio broadcast
The exhibition lasts until October 22.
During ARCTIC MOVING IMAGE & FILM FESTIVAL 2023, SASUSU Radio invites to the exhibition "Verdens ende" (“The end of the world”). SASUSU Radio is a project-based artist collective consisting of Henrik Sørlid, Ellen Vikström, Mimii, Jette Graaner and Sanjey Sureshkumar.
The group works with a temple as a meeting place, a place for healing and mythology. With “The end of the world” as a direct thread between the time we live in and the end of the world, the artist group wants to create dialogue in Harstad. With a programme consisting of cooking and tea-drinking, radio programmes, music and performance, together with guests in and outside Harstad, SASUSU Radio welcomes you to life at The end of the world.
A little more about the artist collective SASUSU Radio:
SASUSU Radio is a migrant meeting place that has since 2021 searched for connections between the Eelam-Tamil island landscape and the Tamil diaspora in Norway. In the reincarnation of Eelam-Tamil culture created by encounters with and between peoples, place relations and migratory revivals, older traditions are presented in new refuges, and new traditions in older haunts. The radio's expression is channeled through collaboration and family ties that take place over time and in various works. The projects are fleeting and limitless and are shaped in the presence, where human coexistence highlights our everyday life and we who are part of it. Between physical and common points of reference, the radio tries to take root in the contexts that exist and are rooted in society, past and future.
HÆRK presents: Stacey de Voe and the video archive
FRIDAY OCTOBER 13. 3PM-4:15 PM. HARSTAD CINEMA ‘SAL’ 2.
The art collective HÆRK presents a screening programme as well as the experiment 'Harstad video art library' at Harstad public library.
HÆRK has put together a film programme for AMIFF 2023. This programme consists of short films by Eli Mai Huang Nesse and Ben Balcom with Julie Niemi, as well as a live reading og the artist Stacey De Voe's video essay “overlocked”. This event also contains a conversation with HÆRK after the screening.
Programme:
Overlocked- Round in three threads, Stacey De Voe, 2023, c. 30m
Bare a stone, Eli Mai Huang Nesse, 2023, 14m
Growing Up Absurd, Ben Balcom, 2023, 15m
Overlocked - Around in Three Threads, Stacey De Voe, 2023
“overlocked-Around In Three Threads” is a live reading of an audiovisual essay. It departs from a larger ongoing research project - overlocked, which investigates nylon’s elastic imaginaries and how a seemingly innocent, yet marketed innovative thread can effectively tear through welfare politics, staging the false promise of a “one size” fits all future. Through intersections in architectures of consumer capitalism, department stores, and former sites of labor such as a former factory in Malmö, overlocked seeks to unpick the intricacies of nylon and its implications on notions of femininity, gendered labor and class politics.
Berre en stein, Eli Mai Huang Nesse, 2023
"Berre ein stein" (“Just a stone”) is a collection of anecdotes from places where stone falls occur. The film shows how one deals with the fact that everything can suddenly come crashing down and how the stones take on new meaning after they have fallen.
Growing Up Absurd, Ben Balcom og Julie Niemi, 2023
A provisional portrait of Tolstoy College, an anarchist educational community which operated within the University at Buffalo between 1969 and 1985.
'Harstad video art library' at Harstad public library.
Over a long period, HÆRK has thought about, researched and now put together a video archive which is ready at the Harstad library during AMIFF. The Videoartoteket is a small trolley with a screen and two folding chairs, a place where you can browse widely different video works from different artists.
The Artotekordingen in Norway was previously a pilot scheme in the 70s where the idea was that you could go to the library, borrow a work of art, hang it up at home and return it after a few weeks. The Harstad library had such an art library, an expanded arena for visual art — art on loan. The video artotheque continues some of the old artotheque's thinking, while at the same time requiring a separate structure. It is an attempt to make video art available, to make it — if not loanable — open to those who are in the library building; a place that can be expanded and rethought, but which still preserves and holds on.
Harstad Library opening times during the festival:
Thursday 12 October 10am - 7pm
Friday 13 October: 10am - 4pm
Saturday 14 October: 10am - 3pm
Sunday 15 October: Closed
PG 15
Three short films with dance, music and desire
Still: SKÁDJA, Short film, 16:35 min, 2022 by Eili Bråstad
FRIDAY OCTOBER 13. 1:50 PM @HARSTAD CINEMA, ROOM 2.
Three films where music, dance and desire are driving forces.
The films:
Love And Greed And Pain And Lust, Anette Gellein, 2023, Norway, 16mm colour with sound, 14 min. Polar Film Lab.
SKÁDJA, Eili Bråstad, 2022, Short film, 16:35 min.
Audiocopter and the Midnight Sun, Aaslaug Vaa, 2023, Norway, 13 min
ABOUT THE FILMS:
Love and Greed and Pain and Lust
Love and Greed and Pain and Lust is a short film by Anette Gellein shot on 16mm color film. The film explores the depths of love, desire and death in a sexy, dark and mysterious way.
Performers: Brynjar Åbel Bandlien, Stine Janvin, Helene Suyoto Wollan, Torunn Larsen, Tycho, Marie Midttun Skretting, Anette Gellein
Photography and music: Anette Gellein
Produced by Anette Gellein & Sarah Schipschack
Makeup: Marie Midttun Skretting
Costumes: Anette Gellein & Mia’s Kostymelager
Percussion & sound technician & production assistance: Jens Borge
Analog Film Mentor: Ruth Aitken
SKÁDJA
Skádja means echo in Sami, and is a queer story about a powerful meeting between two women. With references to witches, and with dance, nature and mystery, the film combines past and present in a fantastic universe. The film, which was recorded in Nordreisa, has won several awards, has been nominated for the Iris Prize, and will also be shown at ImagineNATIVE in Toronto this autumn.
Cast: Timimie Märak & Ane-Martha Tamnes Hansgård
Writer & director: Eili Bråstad
Producer: Helene Eggen / Mattima Films AS
DOP: Zoë Schmederer
Editor: Truls Krane Meby
Composer: Kristine Hansen
Audiocopter and the Midnight Sun
Magic occurs when the Swedish film composers Sebastian Rubinstein Öberg and Magnus Jarlbo together with the young multi-artist Emelie Markgren present new instrumental inventions in the face of northern Norwegian nature. Together, the two composers have created music for close to 100 films. Sebastian Rubinstein Öberg for directors such as Jan Troell. Magnus Jarlbo composed the music for the Berlinale winner "A Soap".
Composers and musicians:
Emelie Markgren
Sebastian Rubinstein Öberg
Magnus Jarlbo
Audiocopter construction:
Sebastian Rubinstein Öberg
Concept:
Emelie Markgren
Sebastian Rubinstein Öberg
Magnus Jarlbo
Tor Edvin Eliassen
Aaslaug Vaa
Cinematography
Tor Edvin Eliassen
Editor
Kristoffer Elfström
Director and producer:
Aaslaug Vaa
Music design:
Emelie Markgren
Sebastian Rubinstein Öberg
Sound and mix:
Manne Kjellander
PG 15
Fallen Leaves
Copyright: Arthaus
FRIDAY OCTOBER 13. 1:30 pm . HARSTAD CINEMA, ROOM 1
FINNISH FILM FROM 2023, PG 15. Norwegian subtitles
81 MIN
Industrial worker Holappa meets Ansa, who has just lost her job at the supermarket. Sweet music arises, but challenges await our everyday heroes.
Finnish veteran and master director Aki Kaurismäki is known for films such as The Man Without Memory, Le Havre and The Other Side of Hope. Here has again composed a song about true love on Helsinki's shadow side.
"A romantic comedy with simple conflicts, underplayed characters and large amounts of dry-witted humor at the level of the Sahara desert".
Birger Vestmo – NRK Filmpolitiet
The film received the Jury Prize at Cannes.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Bend it like Beckham
Production company/copyright :The Works
FRIDAY OCTOBER 13. 11AM HARSTAD CINEMA ROOM 1
Director:Gurinder Chadha
Language: English
Yearr:2002
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Romance
Runtime:1 h. 41 min.
ABOUT THE FILM:
The parents of 18-year-old Jess are distraught. They want their daughter to be a traditional Indian girl, but she is only interested in football, and the hero's name is David Beckham. Now passion collides with family demands. The final of an important football tournament is playing when her sister marries ...
Jess is a second-generation immigrant in England, and would much rather dress in a football kit than a sari. The mother and father despair of their daughter's boyish, Western interests. They think football prevents Jess from finding a handsome man and becoming good in the kitchen.
Jess defies her parents and spends her free time in the park playing hoops. There she is discovered by Jules, a girl her age who plays on the local women's team. Jess and Jules become good friends, and their interaction is a dangerous weapon of attack. Jess has not yet told her parents that she has joined the team. When they get the hang of it, the football adventure may be over.
Jess also falls out with Jules because both are weak for the trainer. It gets even worse when Jess's sister is getting married on the same day as the final of an important football tournament. It may decide whether Jules and Jess get to experience professional play in the United States.
The wedding day arrives, and kick-off is taken in the final without Jess on the pitch. The first half is coming to an end. Then Jess gets help from an unexpected quarter...
With:Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher, Keira Knightley, Archie Panjabi, Shaznay Lewis, Ameet Chana, Poojah Shah, Shaheen Khan, Juliet Stevenson, Preeya Kalidas, Trey Farley, Saraj Chaudry, Imran Ali, Parminder Nagra, Frank Harper, Paven Virk
Morning seminars with Nicolas Siepen
Friday - Sunday 09 AM - 11:AM @Castello
Free seminar event
Venue: Castello Festivalcenter - Adress: Rikard Kaarbøs gate 17, 9405 Harstad
Language: English
Nicolas Siepen, a German artist, art historian, filmmaker, writer and publisher will hold a three-day seminar during AMIFF 2023. At the seminar you will be invited to actively engage in the program within 'moving images', as well as around the festival's theme, Bend it, maybe.
The seminar is for artists, filmmakers, curators, writers, researchers, students and others who are engaged with film and moving images within their own practice, or if you are just interested in moving images, then you are most welcome.
The seminar is structured around three sessions, one each day throughout the festival, where the group is invited to participate actively in discussions about selected works shown at the festival and how these relate to current discussions in the art world and according to the practice of moving images. Participants are expected to contribute to determining the program through a combination of open, critical response and self-reflection. Topics such as curatorial problems, premises and the festival's structure will also be able to be discussed, and it is possible to reflect on any own work in relation to the discussion.
Listen up!
Copyright: Arthaus
FRIDAY OCTOBER 13. 09:00AM. Harstad Cinema. Room 1
PG.
86 MIN
Norwegian language and subtitles
About the movie:
Finally summer vacation! The only thing teenager Mahmoud wants is a relaxing summer without the hustle and bustle. But then Uncle Ji comes to visit from Pakistan. And who do you think will be responsible for being his Oslo guide? Yes, Mahmoud of course. And not only that, little brother Ali has a secret that turns his whole life upside down. In other words, the summer vacation plans are not going smoothly...
Listen up! is a refreshing, warm and touching film that sends your own prejudices straight at you, and leaves no one untouched.
The film is based on Gulraiz Sharif's bestselling novel and is director Kaveh Tehrani's first feature film. The script was written by Erlend Loe and Nora Landsrød.
COPYRIGHT: MOTLYS
Opening film: Sister, What Grows Where Land is Sick?
THURSDAY October 12. at Harstad cinema 7pm.
This year's opening film is (original title) "Den siste Våren" by Franciska Eliassen. A film that has received great reviews, and is also an award-winning film for best female lead actress and best score.
The director Franciska Eliassen will participate online on the screen in conversation with Bård Borch Michalsen in the screening room, before and after the film.
About the film:
What is sanity in an insane world?
In a small town in northern Norway, Eira tries to navigate in the shadows of her brilliant and rebellious older sister Vera. Lately something is happening to Vera. In quest of finding out what, Eira starts reading her diary. She enters Veras universe of intense light, glitter, mythology and hopes for a more beautiful world. Yet her diary reveals a darkness that Eira dosen’t know how to deal with.
Norwegian language
English subtitles.
Runtime: 80 min
PG-12

