10:00 - 16:30 The Silver record, an interdisciplinary symposium with international speakers at Tromsø Kunsforening

screening program at Verdensteatret:

19:00 - Film Screening: Dream Stones, curated and introduced by Sarah Schipschack and Ruth Aitken

20:30 - Film Screening: Landscape(s) Reconsidered, curated and introduced by Martin Grennberger

10:00 - 16:30 The Silver record, an interdisciplinary symposium with international speakers moderated by Tinne Zenner

10.00 - 10.30 Intro with Tinne Zenner

10.30 - 11.30 Panel 1: Traces & tailings: what remains after the image production is finished?

speakers: Alice Cazenave & Henrik Gustaffson

12.00 - 13.00 Panel 2: Counter prospecting & future prospects: How can we heal ruptured earth?

speaker Tanya Busse

13:30 - 14:30 Lunch

14:30 - 16.00 Panel 3: The future of images: How can we make images in a crisis ridden world?

speakers: Felix Loftus, Delphin Ruche (Rissa) & Sophie Watzlawick (LaborBerlin)

________________________________________

Film screenings at Verdensteatret

19:00 - Film Screening: Dream Stones, curated and introduced by Sarah Schipschack and Ruth Aitken

Pleasure Prospects 

New Mineral Collective (Tanya Busse & Emilija Škarnulytė),  2019, digital, 16:31 min

Commissioned for the 1st Toronto Biennial, Pleasure Prospects is a video that follows the artists as they acquire prospector licences, with which they aim to perturb the values of the mining industry by holding fast their self-described position as “the least productive mining company in the world”. Pleasure Prospects reveals a feminist utopia that swells with wonder and probes the potential for collective pleasure as a methodology of care for one another, and to right relationships with the planet. New Mineral Collective put forward the idea of counter-prospecting as a measure of rehabilitation—engaging concepts of renewal and revitalization, and treating, in their words, the “perforated landscape" as a body itself. With wonder-drenched propositions for a future of healing, New Mineral Collective ask: can you imagine a serene collective future where poetry, love, passive resistance, and lust are our core desires? 

Last Things

Deborah Stratman, 2023, 16mm → 35mm, 50 min

What happens to us / Is irrelevant to the world’s geology / But what happens to the world’s geology / is not irrelevant to us. – Hugh MacDiarmid

From before the beginning until after the end; evolution and extinction as told through the prism of minerals. The geo-biosphere is introduced as a place of evolutionary possibility, where humans disappear but life endures.

Catalyzed by two novellas of J.-H. Rosny, joint pseudonym of Belgian brothers Boex who wrote sci-fi before it was a genre, the film takes up their pluralist vision of evolution, where imagining prehistory is inseparable from envisioning the future. Also key are Roger Caillois’ writing on stones, Clarice Lispector’s Hour of the Star, Robert Hazen’s mineral evolution theory, the symbiosis theory of Lynn Margulis, Donna Haraway’s multi-species scenarios, Hazel Barton’s research on cave microbes and Marcia Bjørnerud’s thoughts on time literacy.

In one way or another, these thinkers have all sought to displace humankind and human reason from the center of evolutionary processes. Passages from Rosny and interviews with Bjørnerud accompany us through the film. Stones are its ballast. We trust rock as archive, but we may as well write on water. In the end, it’s particles that remain.

Duration: 67 min

20:30 - Film Screening: Landscape(s) Reconsidered, curated and introduced by Martin Grennberger

Landscape(s) Reconsidered looks at how the notion of landscape, from a broad variety of cinematic perspectives, has been renegotiated, altered and processed by experimental filmmakers. In Gunvor Nelson’s Light Years Expanding, a road movie of sorts, a primarily horizontal movement, live-action animation and meticulous sonic experimentation create a playful, intense and multilayered rendering of the Swedish rural landscape. In Jun'ichi Okuyamas multi-image film Movie Watching, shot on 35mm and projected on 16mm, we see a horizon and a seascape undergoing transformations via the use of vertical shifts and an intricate collage method. In Impromptu Rose Lowder rewound the reel several times in the camera while filming, creating a distinctive temporal fluidity in relation to the locations she visited. In the last film, Landskap, Claes Söderquist examines the flows and densities of water and vegetation in the southern Swedish countryside, stressing duration, variation in light and seasonal shifts, and ultimately the primordial act of looking: “I didn’t want to create any natural poetry; rather I attempted to undress nature, to examine it.”

Light Years Expanding 

Gunvor Nelson,  1988, 16mm, 23 min 

Movie Watching 

Jun'ichi Okuyama, 1982 , 16mm, 12 min 

Impromptu

Rose Lowder, 1989, 16mm, 8 min,

Landskap 

Claes Söderquist, 1987, 16mm, 36 min

Duration: 79 min