White Cube, Dark Space
Par Hasard
2009 | QTHD | 6 min
Director: Bull.Miletic
Camera: Bull.Miletic Editing: Bull.Miletic
Sound: Bull.Miletic
Using the formal qualities of the French avant-garde Par Hasard considers our visual perceptions of Paris; Paris as a postcard and a commodity. As the ultimate symbol of tourism, the Eiffel Tower is the origin for a journey through the city ́s many historically significant locations and buildings. This work was awarded Best Norwegian Video at Oslo Screen Festival 2010.
Bull.Miletic presses ahead gathering their clues, primarily on urban battlefields and playgrounds. As all of their work impressively shows, their thoughts circle around the vain desire to record the world in its entirety.
European Whisper
2006 | QTHD | 6 min
Director: Marius Mørch
Camera: Div. found footage Editing: Marius Mørch
Music: Ugress
European Whisper is based on sampling, and opens with a scene from a typical European film classic; Jean Cocteau ́s black and white film Orphèe (1949). Having been seduced by the “Princess of Death” Orpheus enters the underworld, which in Mørch ́s version consists of a series of seductively atmospheric scenes from American B-movies, characterized by neon lights, speed, color and a hypnotic sound track.
Marius Mørch (b. 1973) lives and works in Bergen. Mørch studied at Bergen National Academy of the Arts. His work often makes use of sampling found footage from feature films. His works have been purchased by The Museum of Contemporary Art Oslo and Statoil ASA, amongst others. Mørch has participated in many exhibitions and video screenings, both national and international.
Interrogation
2009 | QTHD | 13 min
Director: Ignas Krunglevicius
Music: Ignas Krunglevicius
Visual information is reduced to text and pure fields of color, synchronized with a minimalistic techno soundtrack. The video is created out of a real police interrogation of a woman suspected of murder. The questions are shown in the right hand side of the split screen, the answers on the left. Any hesitation by the interviewee is represented by color.
Ignas Krunglevicius (b. 1979) lives and works in Oslo. He attended The Norwegian Academy of Music, and works as a visual artist and composer. Krunglevicius explores the construction of power and violence through installation, video and audio. He was nominated for the Nam June Paik Award 2010, and has been the recipient of an art grant from the DnB NOR Savings Bank Foundation.
Radio
2007 | QTHD | 4 min
Director: Bodil Furu
Camera: M.Thorshaug, B.Furu Editing: B.Furu
Sound: B.Furu With: Raymond Berge, Charlotte Sæthre
Radio explores the power struggle between a program presenter and the interview subject in the minutes before a live broadcast. The presenter tries to get a conversation going, but the guest does what he can to sew doubt about his role as an idealist and spokesperson for the matter in question, the subject of which remains unclear. The finely tuned conventions of social behavior in mediated communication are thus investigated through narrative techniques.
Bodil Furu (b. 1976) lives and works in Oslo. Furu studied at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (2002) and works mainly with film, video and audio. Her video works have been screened at exhibitions and film festivals across Europe, Asia and the US, including MoMA in New York, the Istanbul Biennale in 2007, The Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art, the Busan Biennale 2007 and the International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen.
vision_listen#2
2008 | QTHD | 8 min
Director: Unn Fahlstrøm
Camera: Unn Fahlstrøm Editing: Unn Fahlstrøm
Music: Arne Nordheim/Mats Claesson performed by Trond Schau
Fahlstrøm investigates the video media’s materialistic and formal possibilities, and the relationship between sound and image. Partially abstract images of shifting cloud formations and birds in flight rotate, alternating from horizontal to vertical; references are thereby created to different early practitioners of Norwegian video art. The soundtrack consists of Arne Nordheim ́s piano composition Listen (1971). This work was recently exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo.
Unn Fahlstrøm (b. 1975) lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Fahlstrøm works with video, exploring the relationship between sound, image and perception. She has extensive exhibition experience both nationally and internationally, and has received several awards. Her work has been purchased by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo and by Bergen Art Museum.
Disguises
2001 | QTHD | 4 min
Director: Marius Mørch
Camera: Div. found footage Editing: Marius Mørch
Music: Peretti/Creatore/Weiss
Disguises is a video-collage of manipulated clips from classic horror movies, where the expression of violence is examined through the seductive abilities of filmatic language. Accompanied by Elvis ́ heartfelt Can ́t Help Falling in Love With You, the violence is edited together into a continuous episode depicting women fleeing from evil. This piece was Mørch ́s artistic breakthrough, and has been purchased by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo.
Marius Mørch (b. 1973) lives and works in Bergen. Mørch studied at Bergen National Academy of the Arts. His work often makes use of sampling found footage from feature films. His works have been purchased by The Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo and Statoil ASA, amongst others. Mørch has participated in many exhibitions and video screenings, both national and international.
Mac Donaldi – King of Soap Bubbles
2009 | QTHD | 7 min
Director: Trine Lise Nedreaas
Camera: Carlos Vasquez Editing: Trine Lise Nedreaas
With: Hammouh Bensalah
In her series of recent videos, Nedreaas focuses on a vanishing group of performers who have bodily tricks as their specialty. The mystical Mac Donaldi appears as a god-like being, a master of his own universe. Omnipotent yet playful he creates mesmerizing smoke-filled bubbles that hover in the air before their brief existence draws to an inevitable close with a pop and a puff of smoke.
Trine Lise Nedreaas (b. 1972) lives and works in Berlin and London. She studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and The Slade School of Fine Art in London. She uses different media including film, video, photography, installation and drawing. Her work has been shown at institutions such as Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, PS1 at MoMA in New York, and the Astrup Fearnley Museum in Oslo.
Intermission
2009 | QTHD | 2 min
Director: Elna Hagemann
Camera: Elna Hagemann Editing: Elna Hagemann
Music: Kyrre Bjørkås Sound: Elna Hagemann
In this video the body is the scene for intense exertion and inner conflict. We see a man who is literally clinging onto his chair. He appears not to be in contact with the seat, and looks as though he is about to levitate and explode, and that he is using all his strength to stop this from happening. The scene was filmed upside down, then rotated during editing, resulting in an illustration of unreleased tension and desperation.
Elna Hagemann studied at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, and works mainly with performance-related video. Her video works are characterized by references to theatre and film, and often form part of larger installations. Hagemann has participated in many exhibitions and video screenings, nationally and internationally. She had her first solo show at the UKS Gallery in Oslo in 2009.
Compositions in Red, White and Blue
2010 | QTHD | 8 min
Director: Nina Toft
Camera: Nina Toft
Editing: Nina Toft
Toft ́s video comprises of recordings from a group-show at the National Gymnastics Meeting. The project ́s success rests on each person ́s ability to adapt to the rest of the group. When the group ́s common objective comes up against
the individual ́s motives, we see a glimpse of the underlying power structure. This is emphasized by the split screen juxtaposition of close-up and wide-angle images.
Nina Toft (b. 1974) is a visual artist who studied at Oslo National Academy of the Arts and at Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. In her latest series of video works Toft explores collective action and group identity. Her work has been included in international film festivals and she has participated in many exhibitions at home and abroad.
Iryna Backbender
2009 | QTHD | 7 min
Director: Trine Lise Nedreaas
Camera: T.L.Nedreaas, Markus Ruff Editing: T.L.Nedreaas With: Iryna Vaschencho
The body is the object of visual and physical deconstruction, through a series of close-ups of the fascinating but awkward and taut shapes in the body of a contortionist. The twisted legs, the spine bent backwards, joints perversely rotated into impossible angels and the ever-present smile, the eyes alone revealing the immense effort and pain in the performer. The body is represented as an object of control, fascination and entertainment.
Trine Lise Nedreaas (b. 1972) lives and works in Berlin and London. She studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and The Slade School of Fine Art in London. Nedreaas uses different media, including film, video, photography, installation and drawing. Her work has been shown at institutions such as Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, PS1 at MoMA in New York, and the Astrup Fearnley Museum in Oslo.
Autoportrait 1
2010 | QTHD | 3 min
Director: Narve Hovdenakk
Camera: Per Krisitian Lomsdalen Editing: Anne Helen Robberstad
Sound: N.Hovdenakk, Anne Helen Robberstad With: Narve Hovdenakk
In this confessional self-portrait, the face has been replaced by pixilated close-ups, and the voice re-pitched to be unrecognizable. These effects are commonly used to disguise victims and criminals in TV documentaries. The dissolution of the body by the technical and formal characteristics of video are applied in an exploration of a fragmented and traumatized self.
Narve Hovdenakk (b. 1971) lives and works in Oslo. He is a visual artist who graduated from Trondheim National Academy of the Arts and has a Masters from Malmö Art Academy. His video works analyzing the male role have attracted particular attention. Hovdenakk has had several solo exhibitions in Norway and has participated in many national and international group shows.
Autoportrait 2
2010 | QTHD | 3min min
Director: Narve Hovdenakk
Camera: Per Krisitian Lomsdalen Editing: Anne Helen Robberstad
Sound: N.Hovdenakk, Anne Helen Robberstad With: Narve Hovdenakk
As in Autoportrait 1, the voice is re-pitched and the face has disappeared, but this time due to the extreme lack of focus to the picture. Our visual access to the person in question is denied, emphasizing the often repeated statement: “I am not who you think I am”. The video generates questions about what information concerning an individual can be communicated through an audio-visual document, and hints at the criminalization of feelings.
Narve Hovdenakk (b. 1971) lives and works in Oslo. Hovdenakk is a visual artist who graduated from Trondheim National Academy of the Arts and has a Masters from Malmö Art Academy. His video works analyzing the male role have attracted particular attention. Hovdenakk has had several solo exhibitions in Norway and has participated in many national and international group shows.
Without Title
2008 | QTHD | 2 min
Director: Øyvind Aspen
Camera: Øyvind Aspen Editing: Øyvind Aspen
Sound: Øyvind Aspen With: Øyvind Aspen
Øyvind Aspen (b. 1983) lives and works in Oslo. He studied at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, graduating in 2010. Aspen works with a broad range of media, including sculpture, installation and video. He has participated in exhibitions and screening events in Norway and several other European countries.
7 Men on a Vault
2009 | QTHD | 4 min
Director: Jumana Manna
Camera: Jumana Manna Editing: Jumana Manna
Sound: Jumana Manna
7 Men on a Vault depicts a group of seven gymnasts doing a handstand on a gym horse, an iconic gymnastics display, invented by the right-wing athletics pedagogue Niels Bukh in the 1920’s. It is claimed to have been the symbol of Denmark at the time. Today it remains the symbol of Danish gymnastics, representing a human collective effort, characterized by balance, control and power.
Jumana Manna (b. 1987) lives and works in Oslo. She studied at Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design, Jerusalem, and at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Manna works mainly with video and installations, often in conjunction. Her work investigates fixed identities and power structures in the process of disintegration. She has participated in many exhibitions, nationally and internationally, including The Autumn Exhibition in Oslo and Postmaster ́s Gallery in New York.