3xShapes of Home (2020)
It is said that our times are oceanic / that we are fluid, flexible, connecting, reconnecting / it is said that the moving image is oceanic / connecting, reconnecting / but does that mean that everything is fluid? / Look at these forms migrating.
4k video, stereo sound
duration: 7 min
photo/sound/words/edit: Elisabeth Brun
co-edit: Magnus Berggren
Synopsis:
The filmmaker revisits her childhood place in the Arctic North of Norway. Over two years, she explores through her camera how these environments have shaped her attachment and her thinking. Hunting for insight beyond herself she tests her relation to place, against the agency of the camera, the agency of an algorithm and the subjectivity of other creatures.
3xShapes of Home lingers somewehere between an essay film, a structural experiment and a visual poem.
Published:
2021 Screenworks 11.1
Awards / Mentions
2022 Best Video Essays 2021, Sight & Sound Magazine
2021 “Poetry by Video Artist” Award, Cadence Video Poetry Festival, Seattle (US).
2021 Special Mention,“Emerging Artist” Award, Mimesis Documentary Festival, Boulder, Colorado (US)
2020 Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment 2020, Visual Arts. King´s College, London, Cove Park; Scotland´s International Artist Residence Centre (UK).
Selected screenings
2023 Arquiteturas Film Festival, Porto (PT)
2022 Filmexplorer´s video-essay gallery, online/Basel Stadt Kino (CH)
2022 Seattle Art Museum (US)
2022 MOM Art space, Hamburg (DE)
2021 40th Uppsala Short Film Festival (SE)
2021 50th Festival de Nouveau Cinéma, Montreal (CA) Les Nouveaux Alchimistes Section.
2021 67th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (DE)
2021 18th Vienna Shorts (AUT)
2021 International Architecture Film Festival of Lund (SE)
2021 Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival (TR)
2021 Bogota Experimental Film Festival (CO)
2021 Cadence Video Poetry Festival, Seattle (US)
2021 Mimesis Documentary Festival, Colorado (US)
Ivan Juritz Prize Jury of the Visual Arts, Josephine Pryde:
“Elisabeth Brun's film 3 x Shapes of Home is a very subtly, finely timed piece of work that launches a kind of weightless shuttle to take us between voice, text and image as it unfolds inits examination of place...
..'It's about forms and how they shape the way we see, the narrator tells us at one point, and it is, but in terms of judging an artist's work, it is also about having the courage to attempt to create a form as you go, to embed yourself in the film's material, almost, and to move with it.”
Johannes Binotto, jury for best video-essays of the year 2021, Sight & Sound:
“What would seem as a purely conceptual and abstract research on how to investigate landscapes through different film practices turns out to be like a poem by Whitman, encompassing the most intimate and the most universal. A film in which the sudden freeze of an image and the humming of the filmmaker cuts me so much I start to cry. A crab gently poking at the camera is a sight I will keep dreaming of.”
It is said that our times are oceanic / that we are fluid, flexible, connecting, reconnecting / it is said that the moving image is oceanic / connecting, reconnecting / but does that mean that everything is fluid? / Look at these forms migrating.
4k video, stereo sound
duration: 7 min
photo/sound/words/edit: Elisabeth Brun
co-edit: Magnus Berggren
Synopsis:
The filmmaker revisits her childhood place in the Arctic North of Norway. Over two years, she explores through her camera how these environments have shaped her attachment and her thinking. Hunting for insight beyond herself she tests her relation to place, against the agency of the camera, the agency of an algorithm and the subjectivity of other creatures.
3xShapes of Home lingers somewehere between an essay film, a structural experiment and a visual poem.
Published:
2021 Screenworks 11.1
Awards / Mentions
2022 Best Video Essays 2021, Sight & Sound Magazine
2021 “Poetry by Video Artist” Award, Cadence Video Poetry Festival, Seattle (US).
2021 Special Mention,“Emerging Artist” Award, Mimesis Documentary Festival, Boulder, Colorado (US)
2020 Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment 2020, Visual Arts. King´s College, London, Cove Park; Scotland´s International Artist Residence Centre (UK).
Selected screenings
2023 Arquiteturas Film Festival, Porto (PT)
2022 Filmexplorer´s video-essay gallery, online/Basel Stadt Kino (CH)
2022 Seattle Art Museum (US)
2022 MOM Art space, Hamburg (DE)
2021 40th Uppsala Short Film Festival (SE)
2021 50th Festival de Nouveau Cinéma, Montreal (CA) Les Nouveaux Alchimistes Section.
2021 67th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (DE)
2021 18th Vienna Shorts (AUT)
2021 International Architecture Film Festival of Lund (SE)
2021 Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival (TR)
2021 Bogota Experimental Film Festival (CO)
2021 Cadence Video Poetry Festival, Seattle (US)
2021 Mimesis Documentary Festival, Colorado (US)
Ivan Juritz Prize Jury of the Visual Arts, Josephine Pryde:
“Elisabeth Brun's film 3 x Shapes of Home is a very subtly, finely timed piece of work that launches a kind of weightless shuttle to take us between voice, text and image as it unfolds inits examination of place...
..'It's about forms and how they shape the way we see, the narrator tells us at one point, and it is, but in terms of judging an artist's work, it is also about having the courage to attempt to create a form as you go, to embed yourself in the film's material, almost, and to move with it.”
Johannes Binotto, jury for best video-essays of the year 2021, Sight & Sound:
“What would seem as a purely conceptual and abstract research on how to investigate landscapes through different film practices turns out to be like a poem by Whitman, encompassing the most intimate and the most universal. A film in which the sudden freeze of an image and the humming of the filmmaker cuts me so much I start to cry. A crab gently poking at the camera is a sight I will keep dreaming of.”