Film Artist in Focus: Knut Åsdam

Overview of films

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  Abyss

  • Film Artist in Focus: Knut Åsdam

  Knut Åsdam | Belgium | -

  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…
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  Blissed

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  Knut Åsdam | 12' | Belgium | -

  Short film which focuses on the interaction between four young people and how they relate to themselves and to their environment. Set in a contemporar
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  Come to Your Own

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  Knut Åsdam | 23' | Norway | -

  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…
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  Consolation Service

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  Eija-Liisa Ahtila | 25' | Finland | -

  Three-part film about themes such as endings, death and time seen from the perspective of a young woman.
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  Deux ou trois choses que je sais d’elle

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  Jean-Luc Godard | 90' | France | None

  One of Godard’s masterpieces, based on a newspaper report about suburban housewives turning to prostitution to pay for their latest consumer goods. Th
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  Filter City

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  Knut Åsdam | 21' | Norway | -

  Filter City focuses on two women, their relation to each other and to a city that is in transformation – architecturally, politically and socially. Th
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  Finally

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  Knut Åsdam | 17' | Austria | -

  Shot within a historic setting in Salzburg, Austria, this film is oriented around questions of history and violence. It researches the area between na
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  Picnoleptic City (Rotterdam Edit)

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  Knut Åsdam | Norway | -

  A graffiti project. The urban unconscious is what interests Åsdam: the relations between subjectivity and the State, along with the dialectic between
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  Psychasthenia 2+2

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  Knut Åsdam | Norway | -

  In Psychastenia 2+2 the cinematoscopic is used for a physical and psychological play on the relation between the viewer and high capitalist architectu

• Season Outside

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  Amar Kanwar | 30' | India | -

  Kanwar traces the story of oppression and violence through current and historic events between his native India and Pakistan. A heart searching monolo
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  Smooth City, Smooth Space

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  Knut Åsdam | Norway | -

  A new slide installation that elaborates on the theme of the city as a conditioning environment for the individual.
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  The Care of the Self Finally Edit

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  Knut Åsdam | Norway | -

  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…