FILM SEMINAR AND FILMPROGRAMME 2019

The title of the seminar - Where Memories Are Made: Film and the Politics of Remembrance refers to a news report about a brain scan technique that visualizes the physiological processes of memory. The season and seminar explored the way film and the visual arts represent and re-invent memory by revisiting history, constructing docufictions or creating counter-narratives. It also exemplified the role of the moving image in articulating models addressing the politics of remembrance.

As part of its autumn programme, osloBIENNALEN FIRST EDITION 2019-2024 presented a season of new and earlier film productions by Dora García (ES), Jonas Dahlberg (SE), and Javier Izquierdo (EC) in collaboration with Kunstnernes Hus. The programme was curated by Eva González-Sancho Bodero and Per Gunnar Eeg-Tverbakk in discussion with Ronald Van de Sompel and Kjetil Jakobsen, as part of the preparations for Oslo Biennial–Notebooks, an international online circular exploring contemporary art in public space. It presented amongst other works, the first outcome of the biennial’s film production unit Crimes of the Future, a film by Javier Izquierdo: a film about the 1966 film adaptation by Henning Carlsen of Knut Hamsun’s 1890 novel Hunger.

The structure of the film seminar responded to the programme of screenings; each film was followed by a conversation between the filmmaker and a guest speaker (Eivind Røssaak, Kjetil Jakobsen, Aaron Schuster and Trond Lundemo). The seminar started with an opening lecture by Katerina Gregos, followed by four guest speakers, who will refer to the filmmakers’ practices in light of ongoing developments in film theory. Finally, all participants and speakers took part in a panel discussion moderated by Elisabetta Fabrizi to exchange general experiences, ideas and proposals arising from the films and the themes and concepts they encompass.

The seminar was free and open for everybody. For a digital version of the seminar leaflet, click here.

Katerina Gregos, Eivind Røssaak, Trond Lundemo, Aaron Schuster, Dora García, Javier Izquierdo, Jonas Dahlberg, Elisabetta Fabrizi(moderator), Eva González-Sancho Bodero, Per Gunnar Eeg-Tverbakk, Ronald Van de Sompel, Kjetil Jakobsen

12 PM – Registration

1 PM - Introduction to the biennial and presentation of the seminar

1.10 PM - Opening lecture by Katerina Gregos

1.40 PM - Crimes of the Future: Hamsun, Carlsen, and Izquierdo. Contribution by Eivind Røssaak on Javier Izquierdo’s Crimes of the future: A film about a film about a book about a city (2019).

2.10 PM - Contribution by Kjetil Jakobsen on Jonas Dahlberg’s Notes on a Memorial (2018)

2:40 PM - Q&A

3:05 PM - How Not to Normalize Normality: Some Lessons from Anti-Psychiatry and the October Sexual Revolution. Contribu­tion by Aaron Schuster on Dora García’s The Deviant Majority (2010) and Amor Rojo (in progress)

3:35 PM - Cinematic Mnemotechnics. Contribution by Trond Lundemo on Javier Izquierdo’s A Secret in the Box (2016) and Panamá (2019)

4:05 - PM Q&A

4.15 - PM Plenary discussion, moderator Elisabetta Fabrizi

FRIDAY 18 October
6PM - Norwegian premiere: Notes on a Memorial by Jonas Dahlberg. Followed by Artist talk with Kjetil Jakobsen and Jonas Dahlberg

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7.30 PM - World premiere: Crimes of the future: A film about a film about a book about a city, 2019 by Javier Izquierdo. Followed by a Artist talk with Eivind Røssaak and Javier Izquierdo

Fully booked

SUNDAY 20 October
4 PM - Notes on a Memorial by Jonas Dahlberg

5 pm - Crimes of the future: A film about a film about a book about a city, 2019 by Javier Izquierdo

TUESDAY 22 October
6 PM - Asylum (1972) by Peter Robinson

7.45 PM - The Deviant Majority (2010) by Dora García

WEDNESDAY 23 October
6 PM - Panamá (2019)
7.30 PM - A Secret in the box (2016)
Both films by Javier Izquierdo. Followed by Artist talk with Javier Izquierdo and Trond Lundemo

THURSDAY 24 October
6 PM - The Deviant Majority (2010) by Dora García, followed by Artist talk, discussion with Aaron Schuster and Dora García

FRIDAY 25 October
6 pm - Notes on a Memorial by Jonas Dahlberg