Film Artist in Focus: Knut Åsdam
Overview of films
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Abyss
Created as a commission for the Middelheim sculpture park, a video that ‘reads’ the urban environment as a political space as well as a place for f
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Untitled: Pissing
This repetitive visualisation of a urinating, clothed man allows for an expanded analysis of concepts such as masculinity, intimacy, sexuality, hom
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Filter City
Filter City focuses on two women, their relation to each other and to a city that is in transformation – architecturally, politically and soc
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Deux ou trois choses que je sais d’elle
One of Godard’s masterpieces, based on a newspaper report about suburban housewives turning to prostitution to pay for their latest consumer goods.
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The Care of the Self Finally Edit
A slightly surreal park is created with a dark light filter on the windows of the museum. Here Åsdam picks up the night-time park of the city, the
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Psychasthenia 2+2
In Psychastenia 2+2 the cinematoscopic is used for a physical and psychological play on the relation between the viewer and high capitalist archite
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Picnoleptic City (Rotterdam Edit)
A graffiti project. The urban unconscious is what interests Åsdam: the relations between subjectivity and the State, along with the dialectic betwe
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Come to Your Own
In the video Come to your Own, 1993, a darkly dressed man sits at the threshold of a white room and over a 23-minute period presents the viewer wit
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Blissed
Short film which focuses on the interaction between four young people and how they relate to themselves and to their environment. Set in a contempo
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Untitled: Skipping
A naked man is skipping. What initially looks like a voluntary and comical action turns into something scarcely done out of free will.
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Consolation Service
Three-part film about themes such as endings, death and time seen from the perspective of a young woman.
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Season Outside
Kanwar traces the story of oppression and violence through current and historic events between his native India and Pakistan. A heart searching mon