For a limited time, a second Kinobox kiosk is operating in Svolvær Havneterminal, Lofoten, as part of Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF). Scroll for its screening programme.
[ TROMSØ ]
[ 07:00-24:00 Everyday ]
30.08. – 19.09
In celebration of Open Out festival, the festival team have curated a film programme in collaboration with išgirsti, FEFF and SAQM. Together, they aim for establishing a sense of community and awareness of queer existence across the vast Nordic regions through showcasing and debating underground short films, cinema works and cinema performances. Open Out ran from 7–14.09.24 at Tromsø Kunstforening, with the title ‘Practising Hope’.
I Was Happy Not To Be Alone
Anton Karyuk, 2024
14 mins
The video work is dedicated to probably the only remaining cruising spot for men with same-sex attraction in Helsinki. Against the backdrop of Finland’s unique nature, three intimate narratives told by young men in the 1960s-1970s, captured by Finnish researcher Waldemar Melanko (1939–2022), are heard. His book “Park Homos – a Report on Gay Culture in Helsinki in the 1960s” was published 40 years after its completion and became an exceptionally important work for the queer history of Finland.
Anton Karyuk (UA/LT) is a Ukrainian multidisciplinary artist based in Vilnius. In his practice, the artist explores marginalised segments of society, identities and the dynamics of social ecology. He began his professional career as an artist creating abstract paintings, later changing his focus to multidisciplinary media such as installation, performance and video art. In his visual narratives, Anton uses abstract artistic language and minimalist form, deftly manoeuvring between intimate and socially sensitive themes.
[ SVOLVÆR ]
[ 05:00-22:00 Everyday ]
31.08. – 22.09
As part of this years LIAF – ‘Gnistsambandet (Sparks)’, curator Kjersti Solbakken invited KINOBOX to build a second edition of the kiosk cinema and collaborate on a programme which would reflect on the themes of the wider festival – connections, signals, networks and distribution. KINOBOX Svolvær will operate 31.08-01.12.24
Pipeline
Liv Strand (SE), 2007
5:35 mins
Pipeline, a video piece that brings the viewer on an uncharted journey through a pneumatic pipeline system. This pneumatic pipeline system runs for more than ten kilometers through the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm. Strand’s basic interest was to be able to see the unseen, the speed and way of the transports in such an ancient technical system. To view the idea of moving. A capsule was modified to transport the video camera in order to capture the movement and sound of the capsule, as it navigates through the system. The sound recorded in the video is the sound of movement, sonically inhaling and exhaling in a sequence of frozen pauses and explosive movements. Pipeline is a field recording by a video camera that hover through a closed infrastructure.
The work is distributed by Filmform (Sweden).
Liv Strand’s (b. 1971) art practice has its starting point in space, particularly in that we share living space. Through her art, she wants to show the possibilities to claim space, not avoiding the friction that follows when different components have to adjust to one another. Strand examines public space by introducing private questions and actions. The sensation of feeling one’s body occupying space, bumping into the surroundings, is of importance. Liv Strand is a Swedish artist based in Stockholm. She studied at the Södertörn University College, University College of Stockholm, Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm and at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art.
Light Observation
Ruth & Alexander (NO/UK), 2022
9:15 mins
Why do we watch? Is more information always better? Does the act of looking alter the path of those being looked at? Without supervision what might happen? Large parts of a deep sea fibre optic cable go missing. The cable is funded by a national defence department, an oil company and various research agencies and colleges. Equipment records the sea bed, illuminating it intermittently for timelapse imagery. This information travels as light back down the cable into an online database, spread further as light through subsea optical cables.
Ruth & Alexander (b. 1990), works at the intersection between production and labour, systems of power, the ethical systems which underpin them and the rituals that ultimately appear. This has recently been explored through thinking about distribution, where material, form and content are dictated by a thinking around access and the infrastructure through which power, information and resources are distributed. They are currently working broadly with the sun as our ‘ur-distributor’ of energy and resources. They work with moving-image, intervention, collaboration, curation and chaos, graduating with a BA(Hons) in Time Based Art & Digital Film (2012) from Duncan of Jordanstone and with an MA in Contemporary Art (2018) from Tromsø Academy of Art.
We are grateful for funding from Tromsø Kommune and Norsk Kulturrådet to build and programme KINOBOX and support from Tromsø Havn/Havneterminalen in housing it. This project would not have been possible without the help and support of Tromsø Kunstforening and Polar Film Lab.