PhotospherePhotosphereShort documentary (2021), installation, (2020) Photosphere explores the connection between a Hollywood studio film laboratory and a solar observatory during the era of celluloid filmmaking. It portrays Sara Martin, a solar astronomer who used film as research material until the end of the 1990s. Review in the January 2023 issue of VERK Tidskrift. Credits Camera, [...]
The Other Side of Mars The Other Side of MarsDocumentary, 2019 The Other Side of Mars is a documentary about how we come to know a world almost entirely through images. Filmed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and nearby observatories, it follows roboticist and Mars rover driver Vandi Verma as she plans and executes rover [...]
Being, IncreasinglyBeing, Increasingly3 channel film installation, 2017 Being, increasingly is a Gesamtkunstverk centered around a 3-channel installation that combines video with dimensional and optical elements. The exhibition creates a spatial moving portrait of the ethnologist and anthropologist Hilma Granqvist (1890–1972) during the time she spent in two cultures before the second world war: Finland and [...]
To MeltTo MeltShort film and 4 Channel Film Installation, 2014 To Melt exists as both a short film and a four-channel installation. In both versions, the same action returns in loops: a person carries a package, drops it with a crash, and another person arrives to examine what has broken. Across eight repetitions, performers of [...]
The LineThe LineShort film, 2012 A woman’s dream -sparked by a line in Ingmar Bergman’s Persona- unfolds into a reflection on cinematic projection, myth-making, and the narratives that frame women’s lives and choices. Using this encounter as a lens, the film examines how cinema has participated in constructing feminine mythical personifications, and how women in [...]
The Chinese RoomThe Chinese RoomShort film and Interactive Installation, 2003 The Chinese Room is a 3D animation and participatory installation about intimacy and alienation during times of surveillance voyeurism. In the installation the viewer follows two animated characters on different video channels as they live their daily lives. The characters' living spaces and offices are [...]
The Widow of Colonel NotaraThe Widow of Colonel NotaraShort film, 2005, collaboration with Samon Takahashi The Widow of Colonel Notara is a frisky short film and collaboration with French artist and musician Samon Takahashi about a haunting past that can reach one out while enjoying simple activities. The film references the story of Colonel A.D. [...]
