There are names for homes that are not on any maps. The complexity of calling a place home while struggling to find acceptance there permeates these video poems. As many of us are spending more time where we dwell than ever before, the gratitude we might feel for our home is colored by a feeling of entrapment. At the same time, the comfort, safety, and services of shelter are by no means guaranteed. This screening is for the displaced, the vulnerable, and the shut-ins crawling out of their skin; for those whose struggle to define and redefine a concept of home for themselves is continual.
🏆 Cadence 2021 award-winner! 🏆
3xShapes of Home is a hybrid essay film, structural experiment, and visual poem. In it, the filmmaker revisits her place of origin, the small village of Strengelvåg in Norway's Arctic North. For two years, she explored the ways that Strengelvåg's surrounding mountains, oceans and built environments imprinted in her modes of thinking and sense of place. Her photographic exploration applies three distinct configurations of film techniques to test her subjective relationship to place against the agency of the camera, and to the subjective reference points of regional fauna. We hear her voice-over shift from poetic, to analytical, playful, and numb, as new perspectives on her village are created through the formal operations of the moving image.
- Year2020
- Runtime7 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, with English closed captions
- CountryNorway
- PremiereWest Coast Premiere
- NotePoet: Elisabeth Brun
- DirectorElisabeth Brun
- CinematographerElisabeth Brun
- EditorElisabeth Brun, Magnus Berggren
There are names for homes that are not on any maps. The complexity of calling a place home while struggling to find acceptance there permeates these video poems. As many of us are spending more time where we dwell than ever before, the gratitude we might feel for our home is colored by a feeling of entrapment. At the same time, the comfort, safety, and services of shelter are by no means guaranteed. This screening is for the displaced, the vulnerable, and the shut-ins crawling out of their skin; for those whose struggle to define and redefine a concept of home for themselves is continual.
🏆 Cadence 2021 award-winner! 🏆
3xShapes of Home is a hybrid essay film, structural experiment, and visual poem. In it, the filmmaker revisits her place of origin, the small village of Strengelvåg in Norway's Arctic North. For two years, she explored the ways that Strengelvåg's surrounding mountains, oceans and built environments imprinted in her modes of thinking and sense of place. Her photographic exploration applies three distinct configurations of film techniques to test her subjective relationship to place against the agency of the camera, and to the subjective reference points of regional fauna. We hear her voice-over shift from poetic, to analytical, playful, and numb, as new perspectives on her village are created through the formal operations of the moving image.
- Year2020
- Runtime7 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, with English closed captions
- CountryNorway
- PremiereWest Coast Premiere
- NotePoet: Elisabeth Brun
- DirectorElisabeth Brun
- CinematographerElisabeth Brun
- EditorElisabeth Brun, Magnus Berggren