As part of Lofoten International Art Festival 2024 (LIAF), KINOBOX has a duplicate kiosk-cinema present inside the havneterminal of Svolvær. With a festival theme that explores signals and connections, these two cinemas talk to each other at a distance – during the festival, each box plays different “film letters” by the artist, corresponding and calling to each other. Travellers and commuters can experience the works at the departure and arrival into both ports.
[ TROMSØ ]
[ 07:00-24:00 Everyday ]
20.09 – 19.10
Film Letters III (Carta tercera)
Valentina Alvarado Matos, 2020
4:14 mins
Four film letters from the artist Valentina Alvarado Matos to the artist Nazli Dincel form a dialogue about migration, dislocation and desire. Each of the four films uses a single Super-8 reel, with voice and text superimposed over the imagery. The works follow the rhythms of the recorded voice, with mistakes and repetitions; they treat voice as a rehearsal, thinking of the words as breaths. Carta tercera and Carta cuarta are being screened in KINOBOX Tromsø concurrently with Carta primera and Carta segunda being screened in KINOBOX Svolvær.
Film Letters IV (Carta cuarta)
Valentina Alvarado Matos, 2020
4:04 mins
[ SVOLVÆR ]
[ 05:00-22:00 Everyday ]
22.09 – 20.10
Film Letters I
Valentina Alvarado Matos (VE/ES), 2020
3:47 mins
Film Letters II
Valentina Alvarado Matos (VE/ES), 2020
4:04 mins
Valentina Alvarado Matos (VE, b. 1986) is an artist based in Barcelona. Her practice focuses on collage, understanding it as a vessel that contains many forms, such as paper, film and ceramics. Through a reflection on the image and its materiality, she brings up issues related to diasporic identities, landscape, and language. Her work has been exhibited internationally and shown at film festivals worldwide. She has been an artist in residence at La Escocesa, Cultura Resident – Castellón, The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto, Matadero Madrid and Hangar, Barcelona.
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.