We are thrilled to invite you to the opening of The Silver Record experimental film festival at Tromsø Kunstforening!
Here is the program for the evening:
18:00–18:30 Opening Reception in exhibition: We Circle in Darkness, Consumed by Light
18:30 -19:30 Opening Performance: (Im)material Extraction – an expanded screening by Tinne Zenner
19:30-21:00 Expanded Nature film program with an introduction by Emmanuel Lefrant from Light Cone
18:30–23:00 Bar
All events are free and in English
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18:30 Opening Performance: (Im)material Extraction – an expanded screening by Tinne Zenner
There is a complex connection between the geological processes of Kalaallit Nunaat
(Greenland) — formed over unfathomable timescales and manifested in its rock formations and occurrences of minerals — and the colonial and neo-colonial dynamics between Kalaallit Nunaat and Denmark. With a case study at GEUS – Geological Surveys in Denmark and Kalaallit Nunaat – the artist zooms in on the extensive archive of topographical and geological maps showing the structure of the geology and mapping raw materials in the underground. These maps are not only scientific artifacts, but embedded within a colonial framework. Researchers at GEUS become central figures in this narrative, embodying the skills and
knowledge of the institution and the state of the land. Through a transmission of their recollection of methods and results, the artist becomes a medium for this particular
discourse, emphasizing but also shifting its message through performing it. This expanded screening consists of a digital projection, an analogue 16mm loop with laser engraved geological data, sound and a live-transmitted voiceover. It is based on the material from the exhibition and research project (Im)material Extraction critically exploring the ongoing extraction of geological data from Kalaallit Nunaat within the context of Denmark’s colonial legacy.
19:30 Film Screening: Expanded Nature with introduction by Emmanuel Lefrant
"Two seemingly disparate trajectories intersected at the end of the 1960s: the expansion of the modes of production and exhibition of moving images (with the apparition of Expanded Cinema) and the reduction of the natural world (rampant extractivism leading to a depletion of the living world, soil degradation, extinction of wild species…). This collision of mediatic and environmental destinies provoked contradictory emotions in experimental filmmakers. Feeling a loss of connection with nature, they imbued their filmic techniques and apparatuses with a greater ecological conscience. Expand the means of cinema or expand nature?
While our era is marked by the magnitude of the effects of human actions on the rest of the living world (the Anthropocene), filmmakers take up ecological practices that aim to decenter the privilege claimed by the human species. Experimental cinema is seen as one of the ways to open up to the plurality of life, to conceive of the world as an interconnected network, to update the links between human and non-human agents. The very methods of filmmaking can become the terrain of ecological political action: artisanal alternatives to productivism, forming eco-conscious and activist collectives, exploring processes such as phytography and eco-processing.”
— Elio Della Noce and Lucas Murari (co-editors of the book)
*Still image from (Im)material Extraction by Tinne Zenner
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Polar Film Lab is a membership collective providing space and community around analogue film in Tromsø, northern Norway. We supply working facilities, and hold film screenings, masterclasses and workshops to improve the opportunities for artists working with film in the North, and to expand the knowledge around analogue and experimental film both within and outwith the arts community. It runs with a ‘do-it-yourself’ focus, aiming to bring more people into direct contact with analogue film.
PFL was co-founded in 2016 by the artist Emilija Škarnulytė and curator Sarah Schipschack.
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