Harstad Kino, Sal 2
In collaboration with AMIFF, Tromsø Kunstforening presents History Is A Black Circle. The programme takes its name from the new film by the artist Hamid Waheed, which the programme has been built around. Showing works by Waheed, Karly Stark, Aldo Tambellini, Evan Ifekoya and Nazli Dinçel, the programme meditates on time, love, queer solidarity and the desire and agency of objects and images. Hamid Waheed will be present for a discussion with the curators after the screening.
The Problem is That Everything is Fleeting, Karly Stark, 2015, 1m
Black Trip #1, Aldo Tambellini, 1965, 5m
contoured thoughts, Evan Ifekoya, 4’42m
Between Relation and Use, Nazli Dinçel, 2018, 9m
History is a Black Circle, Hamid Waheed, 2021, 23m
Progamme run time: 43m
The Problem is That Everything is Fleeting, Karly Stark, 2015, 1m
Starks film is part 1 of a series of short poetry films, reflecting on love, light and darkness.
Black Trip #1, Aldo Tambollini, 1965, 5m
As a pioneering video and film artist, Tambellini's Black series was an exploration of the relaionship between our technology, images and politics. In Black Trip #1 he uses video, film and direct animation to create an abstract whirl of black and white movement.
contoured thoughts, Evan Ifekoya, 4’42m
contoured thoughts is a meditation on desire, recovery and the rituals of communion. A guide and conspirator alike, Ifekoya takes the viewer to another realm where time all but stands still. Regenerated by the blackness of water and land, the artist offers a moment to share the intimate, the erotic and the otherworldly. (Lux )
Between Relation and Use, Nazli Dinçel, 2018, 9m
Borrowing words from Laura Mark's "Transnational Object" and DW Winnicott's "Transitional Object", this film is an attempt to ethically make work in a foreign land. Transitioning from assuming the position of an ethnographer, we turn and explore inwards- on how we use our lovers. (Dinçel)
History is a Black Circle, Hamid Waheed, 2021, 23m
History is a Black Circle is an experimental video essay that revolves around questions of desire, queer experience and history. It's a story that transcends the fabrics of time and space to inhabit the bodies of past, present and future - and it does so through an array of video sources and formats. The film is a recorded documentary, told as speculative fiction and a reflection on the notion of 'black'.
Hamid Waheed is a filmmaker and visual artist utilizing moving images, as well as writing and performing. His work often emphasizes characterization, dramaturgy and queer desires as methods of investigating psycho-social structures, ruminating on time, intimacies and violence. He is also interested in histories and the materialities of archived data. He has an MFA from Oslo National Academy of the Arts, a BFA in Moving Images from Nordland College of Art and Film and is part of the curatorial collective ’HÆRK’.
Works have been presented a number of places, including the Museum of Cultural History, Fotogalleriet and Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo); Open Out Festival and Tromsø Kunstforening (Tromsø); METEOR International Theatre Festival and KODE (Bergen); Nikolaj Kunsthal and Den Frie Udstillingsbygning (Copenhagen); Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin. In 2020, he won the Critic Prize at Nord-Norsken for the installation video ”Papegøye” and was one of three nominees for the Blix Prize in 2022.