Franciska S. Eliassen

The director of the opening film, “ Sister What Grows Where Land is Sick?”. Franciska will participate in a conversation over Zoom with Bård Borch Michalsen about the film before and after the screening. Thursday October 12. 7PM, at Harstad Kino.

Franciska Eliassen (b. 1997) explores ecofeminism, geopolitics and our relation to nature in her work. While doing her BA at the Nordland University College of Art and Film in Lofoten, she built a hut of soil and driftwood in the mountains where she lived for one and a half years. Know as "Norways most primitive art residency" people now live there for free to connect to nature.

Another notable work is her short film "Blue Borders", from the refugee camp Moria. The film premiered at the prestigious annual National Art Exhibition in Oslo in 2019 together with the pilot of "Sister What Grows Where Land is Sick?", called Sister. She recently started a MFA at the National Academy of Arts in Oslo, combining it with ecology, philosophy and AI honours studies at the University of Oslo. She is also a committed climate activist, investigating new approaches to a sustainable future through her artistic practise."