Stillur
Short film / Visual art piece
2018
2018
Stillur (e. Stills) contains 9 scenes edited into a 33 minute short film. It was a non-budget film, written and directed, casted, lit, shot, edited etc. by me. I fell in love with the wide and long still shot before the making of the piece, the unmoving image of no rush, lending the audience both time and agency to interpret the image, to decide what they pay attention to, to do their own editing, not unlike a painting. Most of the scenes tend to resemble some kind of stage, influenced by my experience in theatre.
I based the piece on my BA-thesis titled Space and atmosphere, where I acquainted myself with socio-spatial theories and connected them to everyday life. The subject and my inspiration for Stillur is the contemporary society in which I am based. I play ping-pong with its values, and by distilling certain structures of human behaviour, it often reveals itself as obviously ridiculous and humorously pathetic.
The themes of Stillur relate to: Consumption and impression management; Borealism, or the touristification of nature; The reproduction of social roles; Materialism vs. self-value; The search for meaning vs. leisure; Hostile environments; Nationalism, masculinity, sense of belonging and loneliness.
The discrepancy between the social and the natural, the tragicomical moment when we as humans act in an “unnatural” way due to socially created structures, is a longstanding core interest of mine and an overarching theme in my work.
I based the piece on my BA-thesis titled Space and atmosphere, where I acquainted myself with socio-spatial theories and connected them to everyday life. The subject and my inspiration for Stillur is the contemporary society in which I am based. I play ping-pong with its values, and by distilling certain structures of human behaviour, it often reveals itself as obviously ridiculous and humorously pathetic.
The themes of Stillur relate to: Consumption and impression management; Borealism, or the touristification of nature; The reproduction of social roles; Materialism vs. self-value; The search for meaning vs. leisure; Hostile environments; Nationalism, masculinity, sense of belonging and loneliness.
The discrepancy between the social and the natural, the tragicomical moment when we as humans act in an “unnatural” way due to socially created structures, is a longstanding core interest of mine and an overarching theme in my work.
