program overview 09.05.2025

10-14 - Arctic photographical garden  workshop 

15:00 - Scratch Performance from Print, project & perform workshop 

16:00 - Questions About the North, Time and Human Ecology, screening by Photo North 

17:15 - Expanded Nature, screening with introduction by Emmanuel Lefrant

18:30-19:30 - Dinner

19:30 - Expanded cinema performance by Britt al Busultan 

20:30 - Film Quiz with Tromsø Filmklubb at Storgata Camping

15:00 - Scratch Performance - From Print, project & perform workshop 

Following a 3-day workshop, led by Britt Al-Busultan, the workshop participants will present a ‘scratch’ performance  - an embryonic experimentation into working with expanded cinematic forms and liveness as material. Through the workshop they will have experimented with hand-processing 16mm film, creating matts, rayogramming and printing, then using multiple projectors to create a performance.

16:00 - Film Screening - Questions About the North, Time and Human Ecology, curated by Photo North and introduced by Kati Leinonen 

Photo North – Northern Photographic Centre’s screening programme Questions About the North, Time and Human Ecology takes the viewer on a journey from springs bubbling in the middle of wilderness through small forest-encircled city suburbs to reflect on the complex and conflicted relationship between humans and their surroundings. In media artist Arttu Nieminen’s works, Ultima Kaltio and Awareness, the viewer is invited to a realm under the earth, as well as, surreal prophecies where awareness of mankind reaches to the heavens as a threat to God. In media artist Panu Johansson’s works, Who Has Seen the Wind? and Picturing a Micropolis: 96100-97690, we see glimpses and moments, memories and seasons, of decades of lives next to old and vivid forest areas as well as arctic city suburbs made of concrete. Artist Simi Ruotsalainen’s works, Lohijoki – The Salmon River and Bresnay le 18bre 1913, raise questions about ecological logistics, environmental debates, and the importance of communication. Finally, we see Leena Lehti’s experimental short film trilogy Existence dedicated to insects and life, and referring to the alarming decline in insect populations.

Safety note: Some films contain flickering and loud sounds

Duration: 55 min

17:15 - 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, “Expanded Nature”)

Safety note: multiple films contain flicker

Duration: 76 min

19:30 - Performance: what comes around goes around by Britt al Busultan 

In the wake of the green energy transition, structures of modern technology arise in the landscape. With increased electrical infrastructure consisting of, for example, wind turbines, power plants, transmission stations, interconnected energy systems are all around us. Smart and clean. The belief in our salvation through the energy transition is unshaken, even if lots of nature has to be removed for it. What comes around goes around is a kind attempt of resistance in a world where technology, speed, youth and the triumph over nature are admired, and everything else is regarded as unwanted, slow, obsolete and backwards. According to Bergson duration cannot be expressed in words, and can only be shown indirectly through images that can never reveal a complete picture. This project is an attempt in our fast paced world with smart, clean and super fast technology, to grasp the notion of time and duration which is incomplete and continuously growing, stating no beginning nor ending in a kinetic panorama.

Accompanying the images is the track Kimaltava lätäkkö from the album Yö Näkyy by Olli Aarni. Made out of tapeloops, short snippets and longer waves gradually go back and forth and slowly build up spaces to settle in. The blissful harmonies bring out the nuance from elegiac synth waves, using subtle processed environmental recordings to add texture.

Safety note: This performance will contain flashing lights and flicker.

Duration: 20 min

20:30 Filmquizz at Storgata Camping with Tromsø Filmklubb

The quizzmasters are Rikke Harr Dybdahl and Sondre Sætaberget from Tromsø Filmklubb.