Ane Hjort Guttu
Time Passes (2015)
HD video, color, sound, 47 minutes
Daytime Screenings
7 until 27 May 2016
Screening at 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 5pm
Evening Screening
21 May 2016, 7-9pm
(film begins at 7:30pm, with an introduction by Kunstverein München film curator Vincent Stroep)
Is it an artwork, a simple expression of friendship and equality, a noble attempt to shed light on the social invisibility of marginalized communities, or a tritely misguided and exploitative instrumentalization? These questions, and many others, are integral to Ane Hjort Guttu’s 47-minute film Time Passes (2015).
Everyday except Sunday, a young Norwegian art student named Damla sits with a young Roma woman named Bianca, who begs for money on the streets of Bergen. This performative 'project', as Damla calls it, started as an impulsive act of sympathy, but soon became a meditation on the ethics and value of political art, and how one can respond to injustice, inequality, and poverty today. Throughout the film, Damla struggles to justify her project to her teacher and peers at the Academy of Art. While Damla is concerned with the capacity for artists to enact social change (even on the smallest scale), her classmates argue that her privileged role in relation to her subject makes the project grossly unethical or, at best, an act of facile charity.
In either case, it is precisely the problematics of Damla's 'project' that gives Hjort Guttu’s staged documentary film its polarizing charge. And through it, the filmmaker calls attention to the complexity of art education and artistic action today, where the borders between art and life, private and public, aesthetics and politics, solidarity and exploitation, are increasingly blurred.
CREDITS:
Starring:
Damla Kilickiran
Batalina Bianca Linu
Halvor Haugen
Johan Carlsson
Hedvig Hanson Johannesson
Badabeam Badaboom
Vera Lid
Johannes Hektoen Stockhausen
Director/ Producer/Screenplay: Ane Hjort Guttu
Co-Producer: Bergen Kunsthall
Executive producer: Elisabeth Kleppe / Alleles As
Cinematography: Cecilie Semec FNF
Editing: Jon Endre Mørk
Audio Recording:
Øyvind Rydland
Jorunn Børve Eriksen
Christoffer Salte
Maria Galliani Dyrvik
Rune Baggerud
Andreas Lindberg Scensson
Sound Design:
Rune Baggerud
Music:
Knut Olaf Sunde
Musicians:
Linda Hellstrand
Jon Åsnes
Sound: Øyvind Rydland
Production Assistants:
Hedda Grevle Ottesen
Vera Lid
Interpreters:
Andrada Monteanu
Claudia Rivera Pieptea
Translation:
James Manley
Subtitles:
Martin Thorshaug
Accounting:
Bjerke Økonomi Og Regnskap As
Consultants:
Jonas Ekeberg
Halvor Haugen
Online/Colorist:
Christian Berg-Nielsen
DCP:
Knut Erik Evensen
Cutting assistant:
Elise Solberg
Supported by:
Bergen Kunsthall, Vestnorsk Filmfond, Norsk kulturråd, Fond for lyd og bilde, Fritt Ord, South London Gallery, Lorck Schive kunstpris, Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, Norsk Fotografisk Fond, Statens Utstillingsstipend
Big Thanks To:
David Alræk, Ionots Anghelin, Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek, Bir As, Jørn Broll/Krypton As, Martin Clark, Pedro Gomez Egana, Einar Guttu Ekeberg, Ole Guttu Ekeberg, Linda Bournane Engelbert, Erlend Haar Erikson, Bjønnulv Evenrud, Folk Er Folk, Ane Graff, Jon Guttu, Haldis Hjort, Frans Jacobi, Annette Kierulf, Gülay Kilickiran, Tolga Kilickiran, Edith Marie Kleppe, Alexander Koch, Mai Lahn-Johannessen, Tonje Alice Madsen, Christian Fredrik Martin/Friland, Terje Nicolaisen, Irene Nordli Og Håvard Johansen, Solfrid Otterholm, Anders Rydell, Steiner Sekkingstad, Roald Steensen, Bendik Heggen Strønstad/Yesbox, Nicolae Stoica, Atle Teige, Tarald Wassvik, Other Employees at Bergen Kunsthall, Other Students at Kunsthøgskolen/ Bergen
Commissioned by: Bergen Kunsthall
Co-Commissioned by: South London Gallery
Ane Hjort Guttu © 2015