FREE Short Film Screening - "How To Make Friends In The Water"

Free film event at 1900 on August 22nd at Storgata 65 (Bankhjørnet room).
Supported by Tromsø Municipality. Learn more at https://SyminAdive.com

FILM BLURB: A Semi-Educational Semi-Fun Tragi-Comic Film "How To Make Friends In The Water" is about the mental and environmental blocks that keep us from connecting and thriving "in the water" especially if you weren't taught to "swim" when young. The absurdist short film which is inspired by 1940s social educational films from the US follows the journey of Susie as she tries to learn about both the people and the water that surrounds her. Trailer: ?si=sml0ruM46sA3LT7l

ABOUT THE CREATOR:
Symin (sigh-mean) Adive makes sad/fun art. She is an artist and comedian (The Onion Upright Citizens Brigade) as well as an Art Director/glorified Graphic Designer with clients like The Empire State Building. Symin is brown bi and a third word that starts with "B." The Bangladeshi artist resides in NYC and abroad. She has received grants from NYFA (City Artist Corps) Queens Council on the Arts and the Norwegian Parliament.

Her work combines hurt and humour. It both overshares and sugarcoats. She uses her background in comedy and design to make the unpalatable palatable via multiple mediums (film interactive 2d 3d). In her work all the absurd and familiar ways in which we relate are of key importance especially if it's hilariously sad and sadly hilarious. Her recent projects focus on community (or lack thereof) and creating fun-ish interactive and thought provoking make-shift "third places" antithetical to the clinical walls of the art gallery. Adive specializes in making playful environments for people to contemplate otherwise darker subject matter like CPTSD baseless hierarchies and lost childhoods.

Symin likes to think her current website looks better than the one she made when she was 11.
Take a gander at: https://SyminAdive.com