Faber Navalis
Harstad Kino
Kr 90,. / Gratis med festivalpass, men billett må hentes ut på Harstad Kino
Norsk tale
Faber Navalis er den latinske oversettelsen for båtbygger: ord i et gammelt språk for å beskrive et gammelt yrke.
Faber Navalis er en vakker og interessant film som gir deg et innblikk i hvordan lokalbåten MS Grytøy blir restaurert. Båten ble bygd i 1954, og gikk i rute i Harstad og øyriket rundt, blant annet som melkebåt. Den gikk i Kvæfjord i 74 - 82. Båten er meldt fredet av riksantikvaren.
I forbindelse med visningen av filmen vil Dagfinn Gjertsen presentere båten. Gjertsen er styreleder i foreningen MS Grytøy's venner, og som har vært med å få båten fra Oslo hvor den endte opp, og til Nord Norge, hvor båten nå er under restaurering.
Filmen er et eksperiment i Sensorisk Etnografi; en kombinasjon av estetikk og etnografi som forsøker å få frem en indre dimensjon. Filmskaper, båtbygger og antropolog, Maurizio Boriello fra Italia, jobbet i Nord Norge da han laget filmen. Fra å ha jobbet med etnografi relatert til maritim kultur i Sør-Øst Asia, fant han ut at han måtte bli båtbygger for å virkelig forstå det han forsket på. Boriello har bygd båt rundt om i verden, og blitt kjent med forskjellige teknikker.
Regi: Maurizio Boriello, Norge, 2016. Lengde: 33 min. Ingen aldersgrense.
Information in English
Faber Navalis (2016, Norway, 33 min)
No dialogue
An introduction to the film in Norwgian
Venue: Harstad Kino
Ticket price NOK 90,- / Free with festival pass, but ticket will need to be collected at the venue
Faber Navalis is the Latin translation for Boatbuilder: words in an ancient language for describing an ancient profession.
This film is an experiment in autobiographical ethnography: a combination of aesthetics and ethnography which attempts to transmit the state of mind of a shipwright at work on the restoration of an old wooden ship recognized as historical maritime treasure by the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage.
Bio:
Maurizio Borriello was born 1974 in Naples - Italy. He is a boatbuilder, filmmaker and independent researcher in cultural anthropology.
After graduating in Asian and African Languages and Civilizations he moved to Indonesia where he had a teaching assignment at University of Jakarta. In those years he carried out research a project in Visual Anthropology making a documentary-film which explores the universe of Indonesian cinema.
After the Tsunami he worked as volunteer rebuilding some fishing boats destroyed by the seaquake. Since then his interest shifted to the study of coastal communities, boatbuiding technology and transmission of knowledge. His research interests focus on maritime cultures of the Indian Ocean from ethnographic and archaeological perspectives.
He carried out a research project in maritime ethnography on living boatbuilding traditions in S-E Asia collecting data on boat types, construction techniques, local response to the introduction of western technology and its social and cultural effects on the maritime communities. The practical aspects of this fieldwork experience made Maurizio realize the limits of his methodology. All those wooden vessels were built "by eye" guided by an intangible knowledge and Maurizio considered his "blindness" a problem of epistemological relevance. He felt he couldn't really understand the development of the technology and investigate the transmission of knowledge without acquiring practical boatbuilding skills. Since then much of his time has been spent in boatyards working as apprentice boatbuilder in Tsunami-hit countries, Scandinavia, and the Mediterranean.
In the last four years he has been working as wooden ship restorer at the maritime museum in Norway. He is also designing an appropriate and versatile technology which attempts to improve traditional boatbuilding believing in the potential key role of the boats to eliminate poverty and reduce isolation improving rural access and mobility through the development of rural water transport.