Still from That's a Gabay (poem)? - Nadra Abdi Hassan, 0m46s

Friday November 8th, 11.20am at Harstad Kino, screen 2.

This short film programme presents four young artists who use sound as a starting point to cultivate a relationship with identity and the past. Voices, poems, songs and sound recordings take center stage. They form a basis for visual poetry, for exploring questions of identity and politics and for searching for new sounds and harmonies.

Samstemming [Agreement]- Erik Alstad, 25m
An exploration of time and sound through homemade science fiction. A test subject uses a new hearing aid that can pick up the sounds and voices in the objects around her.

Samtaler om trær [Conversations about trees] - Oda Fjellang, 5m19s
Conversations about trees is a film inspired by Athena Farrokhzad's monologue this summer in the national radio channel P2. It's about everything we have to talk about instead. And about why it can be difficult to talk about trees.

Hurdo (sleep) - Nadra Abdi Hassan, 1m7s
This is a short look at the inner chambers of my internal eyes. Captured on digicam (Kodak easy share cx7300).

That's a Gabay (poem)? - Nadra Abdi Hassan, 0m46s
Fractured configurations in formulation, contemplating what poetic potion I should pour into the sea.

An anthropology on Somali poets and their lost loves. - Nadra Abdi Hassan, 3m11s
For the love of songs and all things anatomically romantic in Somali. I gift you the bleeding artery of jaceyl (love). A visual poem of poems and their tunes.

Den andre sangen - Jostein Venås, 33m11s
The filmmaker finds recordings of his great-grandfather singing in Sámi, a language he cannot understand. The repercussions of the state organized assimilation process of the indigenous Sámi in Norway have taken many shapes – among them generational silence. In conversation with his grandmother, he tries to explore this lost heritage, a search facing the complexities of self-identification and aftereffects of identity politics.