Contact: elisabethbrun(at)gmail.com
Elisabeth Brun (b.1977 Northern Norway) is a researcher, filmmaker and artist exploring questions of form, of mediation, of knowledge and of the relational fields of humans, environments and technologies. She combines essayistic film practice with critical media and philosophical perspectives, examining how place, technology and terrain shape experience, knowledge and community.
Bruns work takes different forms such as films, installations, archival work, VR and texts, and has been screened/exhibited internationally at festivals/ venues such as Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (DE), Seattle Art Museum (US), Montreal Festival du Nouveaux Cinéma (CA), MedienKunstTage, HMKV – Dortmunder U (DE) and Lofoten International Art Festival LIAF (NO). Awards/ honors include The Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment in the Visual Arts (King’s College London, 2020), and a Special Mention in the Emerging Artist Award at Mimesis Documentary Festival.
Brun holds a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Oslo, and has further training in Art in Public Space from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Her artistic and scholarly practice builds on more than a decade of experience as a journalist and documentary filmmaker at the Norwegian Public Broadcasting (NRK). Brun´s new book, Place and the Moving Image (Routledge, 2025), examines the critical powers of essayistic and experimental film practices in relation to place and environmental awareness, through her conceptual model of Moving Image Topography.
Bruns work takes different forms such as films, installations, archival work, VR and texts, and has been screened/exhibited internationally at festivals/ venues such as Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (DE), Seattle Art Museum (US), Montreal Festival du Nouveaux Cinéma (CA), MedienKunstTage, HMKV – Dortmunder U (DE) and Lofoten International Art Festival LIAF (NO). Awards/ honors include The Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment in the Visual Arts (King’s College London, 2020), and a Special Mention in the Emerging Artist Award at Mimesis Documentary Festival.
Brun holds a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Oslo, and has further training in Art in Public Space from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Her artistic and scholarly practice builds on more than a decade of experience as a journalist and documentary filmmaker at the Norwegian Public Broadcasting (NRK). Brun´s new book, Place and the Moving Image (Routledge, 2025), examines the critical powers of essayistic and experimental film practices in relation to place and environmental awareness, through her conceptual model of Moving Image Topography.
Upcoming and Recent
Visiting researcher and artist, Dept. of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture / CRAPCC, Aarhus University, funded by Aarhus University Research Foundation / Aarhus Universitets Forskningsfond, Autumn 2026.
Screening, Big tech Blues, Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, October, 2026.
Workshop, NODES Collective with SOAP - Some Online Architecture Practice and Kabelvåg School of Moving Images / UiT, 31.08 -07.08.2026
Talk on work in progress, Week 35 / Uke 35, ROM for kunst og arkitektur + Oslo Open. 27.08.2026.
Artist talk, Gallery Image, Aarhus, in conversation with Vanina Saracino, Cinematic Topographies, 08.08.2026.
Screening Big tech Blues, Arquiteturas Film Festival, Porto (PT). 03.07.2026
Living Lab II: Site specific workshop / Open House, Kjøpsvik, Tysfjord (NO). Moving Image Moving Earth (MIME), with Culturality / Museum Nord. 09.06–12.06.2026.
Living Lab I: Workshop on Exhibition as Method, Wikis as Archive, Dept. of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture, Aarhus University. Guest talk: Dušan Barok (Monoskop). 22.05 2026
Screening Big tech Blues, Art Lovers Movie Club, ArtReview. 18.05-10.06.2026
Miscellaneous grant, Norwegian Government Grant for Artists, Visual arts (Statens kunstnerstipend, Diversestipend), 18.03.2026.
Book talk, Moving Image Topography: place as an eco-critical lense in essay-film practice, Queen´s University Belfast, 18.02.2026.
Interactive text work Utopian Signals, special presentation at finissage of RAW/WAR – An Exhibition in Progress, Anti-Kriegs-Museum / Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF & Guests, Berlin, 12.02.2026.
Workshop by NODES Collective + Klasse Klima at wannseeFORUM, Berlin. Archive of an Utopia – A West Berlin Youth Experiment in the Arctic. 02.02-06.02.2026.
Invited screening and seminar, Arctic Film and Moving Image Festival AMIFF, Harstad, 24.11.2025.
Published, monograph: Place and the Moving Image. Routledge, 06.11.2025.
Invited talk and screening, curated filmprogramme: “If the eyes were not sunlike, the sun´s light it would not see”, by Vanina Saracino. MedienKunstTage, NRW 2025, “More Future!” HMKV, Dortmunder U, 24.10-25.10.2025.
Invited talk and screening, Bergen Architecture School. 19.09.2025. Online.
WP screening, Official selection, Big tech Blues. The Norwegian Short Film Festival. 11.06.2025
Launch, essay: “Disruptive Local Perspective: Arctic Living Beyond the Image”, in Hulda Rós Gudnadottir´s artist monograph: Rhythm of Labor, Distanz Verlag. 05.05.2025
Invited talk, “Re-activating a 1980-ecotopia trough collaborative media art”, Sophia University, Tokyo. 21.04.2025
Workshop. Title: Expanded Archives, org: NODES Collective, Goethe Institute Oslo. 03.04-04.04.2025
Invited talk at master-course: Methods in Artistic Research. Stockholm University of the Arts. 28.03.2025. Online.
Invited panelist, Remote Control, Barents Spektakel, Kirkenes, 22.02.2025
Launch essay: “Utopian Signals: Accidental Archivism of the Nyksund Ecotopia” in Metode, Vol. 3: Currents - Regenerating Pasts for the Not-yet. ROM for kunst og arkitektur. 13.02.2025
Invited talk at Future Maybe - a Seminar on Technology and Affect, Kabelvåg Art and Film School @ Tromsø International Film Festival TIFF. 16.01.2025
Experimental essay, in development with Metode, Vol. 3: “Currents - Regenerating pasts for the not-yet.” ROM for kunst og arkitektur. First workshop 12.06.2024. Second workshop 23.09-24.09.2024. Third workshop: 15.11.2024.
Screening, Big Tech Blues - work in progress, Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF), 20.09-20.10.2024
Exhibition, House of Broken Utopias, immersive and interactive artwork by NODES Collective, Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF), 20.09-20.10.2024
Keynote, “Who Wants to Be Boring: Art, Ecology and Arctic Living Beyond the Image”, The Great Defrost Symposium, Galleri Gudmundsdottir, The Nordic Embassies, Berlin Art Week. 13.09.2024
Education
Postmaster studies, Art in Public Space, (OPI Lab), Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, 2022/2023
PhD, Media and Communications, University of Oslo, 2020
Master, Media and Communications, University of Oslo, 2013
Master, International Journalism, City University London, 2001
Artistic Research and Collaboration
Project lead, Moving Image Moving Earth (MIME), arts-based research project, in collaboration with CRAPCC, Aarhus University and Dept. of Geosciences, University of Oslo (UiO), 2026-present
Co-founder and Co-project lead with Katja Pratschke, Nyksund Reloaded, artistic research project, 2022-present
Founder and Head, Våg Productions: Intermedial Arts Studio, 2025 - present
Media Employment
Documentary film director and journalist, Norwegian Public Broadcasting (NRK). 2001-2014
Film Festivals and curated filmprogrammes (selected)
ArtReview, Art Lovers Movie Club, 2026
L’Europe autour de l’Europe, Paris (FR), 2026
Arquiteturas Film Festival, Porto (PT), 2026, 2023
Arctic Moving Image and Film Festival AMIFF (NO), 2025
MedienKunstTage NRW, HMKV, Dortmunder U (DE), curated, 2025
The Norwegian Short Film Festival (NO), 2025
Filmexplorer´s video-essay gallery / Stadtkino Basel (CH), curated, 2022.
Seattle Art Museum, curated, 2022
Uppsala Short Film Festival (SE), 2021
Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (CA), 2021
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (DE), 2021.
Bogota Experimental Film Festival (CO), 2021
Vienna Shorts (AUT), 2021
Exhibitions and Installations (selected)
House of Broken Utopias (VR work + archival installation, NODES Collective), Sparks / Gnistsambandet, Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF), curated by Kjersti Solbakken, 2024.
Big Tech Blues (wip), Festspillutstillingen, Gnistsambandet - Opptakt, Lofoten International Art Festival - LIAF and Festspillene i Nord-Norge/Arctic Arts Festival, Galleri Nord-Norge, 2024.
Disappear. Appear. (text installation, vinyl on window), Of Public Interest (OPI Lab), SPARK, Malmö, 2023.
Hur knäcker knäckepilen / The Crackle (multi-channel sound installation), OPI Lab, Stockholm, curated by Jasmine Hinks and Jonas Dahlberg, 2023.
Overflate / Underflate. Site-specific two channel sound & video installation. Fileten, Nyksund (NO). 2021
Writing, Research Publications (selected)
Place and the Moving Image, monograph, Routledge, 2025
“Utopian Signals: Accidental Archivism of the Nyksund Ecotopia” in Metode, interactive text, Vol. 3: Currents - Regenerating Pasts for the Not-yet. ROM for kunst og arkitektur + LIAF 2024. eds: Halland I., Solbakken K., Authors: Brun E.,Hámos G., Pratschke K. 2025.
“Reconfiguring the Mountain: a Topographical Approach to Aesthetics”, in Aesthetics in the Age of Unreason, Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, vol.33, no.67. 2024.
“Stubborn Mountains: Traversing Familiar Topographies with Paul Cézanne”, essay in Eigensinnige Orte / Stubborn Places, eds: S. Bürkle, A. Gross, K, Wegemann. Verlag Kettler. 2023
“The Researcher-Filmmaker as a Topographical Thinker”, book chapter, Constructions of The Real, Intellect Books, 2023.
Awards and Mentions
Best Video Essays 2021, Sight & Sound Magazine (UK), 2022
Winner “Poetry by Video Artist” Award, Cadence Video Poetry Festival, Seattle (US). 2021
Special Mention, “Emerging Artist” Award, Mimesis Documentary Festival, Boulder, Colorado (US), 2021
Winner Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment, Visual Arts. King´s College, London / Cove Park; Scotland (UK), 2020
Fellowships, Residencies and Individual Grants
Visiting Researcher, funded by Aarhus University Research Foundation / Aarhus Universitets Forskningsfond, Dept. of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture / CRAPCC, Aarhus University, autumn 2026
Miscelleaneous grant (Visual Arts), Norwegian Government Grant for Artists/ Statens kunstnerstipend, 2026
Visiting scholar, The School of Arts, Design and Media, Kristiania University College, Oslo, 2023-2025
Residency / “Residens i Residensen”, The Norwegian Embassy in Berlin, 2023
Visiting scholar at Filmuniversity Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, funded by Norwegian Research Council (NFR) overseas travel grant for researchers, Berlin 2021
Completion Grant Fellow (Gjennomføringsstipendiat), UiO. 2020-2021
Doctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Media and Communication, UiO. 2016-2020
Talks (selected)
Artist talk, Cinematic Topographies, Gallery Image, Aarhus, 2026
Book talk and screening, Centre for Documentary Research, Queen´s University Belfast, 2026
Invited talk and screening, Bergen Architecture School, 2025
Panelist, Remote Control, Barents Spektakel, 2025
Invited talk at Future Maybe - a Seminar on Technology and Affect, Kabelvåg Art and Film School, 2025.
Keynote, The Great Defrost Symposium, Galleri Gudmundsdottir, The Nordic Embassies, Berlin Art Week, 2024
Invited lecture, PhD-seminar: Artistic Research in Film and Related Audiovisual Art Forms, The Norwegian Film School, 2024.
Invited talk, Imagine Earth, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2023
Presentation, 13th SAR conference, Bauhaus University Weimar (DE), 2022.
Workshops (selected)
Workshop, Archive of an Utopia - A West Berlin Youth Experiment in the Arctic, NODES Collective + Klasse Klima at wannseeFORUM, Berlin. 02.02-06.02.2026.
Workshop. Expanded Archives, NODES Collective with guests, Goethe Institute Oslo. 03.04-04.04.2025
Workshop, Henrik Steffens Masterclass: Re-activating a 1980´s Ecotopia Through Collaborative Media Art, NODES Collective (Brun & Pratschke), Henrik Steffens Professorship, Nordic Institute, Humboldt University zu Berlin, 2024.
Symposia, curation
New Entanglements: Philosophy, Aesthetics and Artistic Research in Film, online symposium, Institute for Artistic Research (IKF - host) Filmuniversity Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF (DE), Kabelvåg Film and Art School (NO), Media Aesthetics Research-group, University of Oslo, 2022
Editorial and Peer Review
Co-editor, New Entanglements special issue, Screenworks. Inter-relations between Film and Philosophy, 2024.
Peer reviewer for Screenworks and Academic Quarter
Book manuscript reviewer for Intellect Boks
Commitee member PhD-defence (artistic research)
Committee member, doctoral defence for Marius Dybwad Brandrud, Öra nära munnen: samtal mellan film och filosofi, Stockholm University of the Arts. 2024
Committee member, doctoral defence for Nathalie Suck Fari, Situated Agencies: Mediating Places through the Body, Performing Arts, University of Gotheburg. 2024
Member of
Norske Billedkunstnere / Association of Norwegian Visual Artists
Norske Filmregissører / Director´s Guild of Norway
Media Aesthetics - collaborative research network, University of Oslo (NO)
NECS - European Network for Cinema and Media Studies