Gadget + Desire
In the last few years, numerous conversations across the fields of film and visual art have taken place in Norway on the need for better alternative methods for production and distribution of film. Do we need alternative structures for alternative films? Can alliances across artistic disciplines help create better structures fort artist- and independent film?
On & For Production and Distribution and Kunstnernes Hus Kino have invited a few professionals across the disciplines, to contribute to a series of video reflections and a panel discussion.
Four video reflections will be launched during March and April and serve as the background for a panel discussion on Zoom on April 20th. This is the first out of four reflections entitled Gadget + Desire and presented by Arctic Moving Image & Film Festival. Click on the picture above to watch it and scroll down to learn more about the project.
About the video reflection ‘Gadget + Desire’
The early theorists of the culture industry, such as Theodor W. Adorno, Guy Debord and Jean-Luc Godard were not just radical pessimists, but were able to imagine the present state of the world in the embryonic stage. At the same time, they were unable to grasp the radical nature of its development. This is primarily due to the fact that they recognized the relationship between technology and desire as a political force, but could not imagine the latest dialectical twist. Today, in times of the internet, gadgetry and social media, that collective desire itself has become an appendix to these digital networks. The arts have also felt this and have not yet found an answer to the challenge... (Nicolas Siepen)
About Mapping Distribution
In the last few years, numerous conversations across the fields of film and visual art have taken place in Norway on the need for better alternative methods for production and distribution of film. We have seen the establishment of new artist-driven production companies, a more artist-centred film education and new cinemas and festivals dedicated to artist- and independent film.
Do we need alternative structures for alternative films? Can alliances across artistic disciplines help create more suitable structures for artist- and independent film? Is it up to the filmmakers to improve the systems? In a time when communication and screening platforms are increasingly personalised, how can filmmakers, curators and distributors reach new and diverse audiences? How to build niche audiences without enhancing polarisation?
Together with On & For Production and Distribution, Kunstnernes Hus Kino has invited a few professionals across the disciplines of visual art and film that are actively engaged in questions on distribution, to contribute to a series of video reflections and a panel discussion.
About On & For
On & For Production and Distribution is a European cooperative project that is conceived to advance and strengthen the field of artists’ moving image by creating public discursive events and by supporting moving image projects in the making.
On & For Production and Distribution is initiated by Auguste Orts (BE) in collaboration with Kaunas International Film Festival (LT), LUX/LUX Scotland (UK), and Nordland Kunst -og Filmskole (NO). With the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
Title: Gadget + Desire
Filmmaker: Nicolas Siepen for AMIFF
Year: 2021
Duration: 15 min
Language: English