Contact: elisabethbrun(at)gmail.com
Elisabeth Brun (b.1977 Northern Norway) is a filmmaker, media artist and theorist exploring questions of form, of mediation, of knowledge, of the relation between human/environment. She combines essayistic film practice with critical media and philosophical perspectives, examining the material, technological and temporal conditions of perception.
Bruns work takes different forms such as films, installations, 3D work 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 Kings College´s Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment 2020, a special mention in the Emerging Artist Award at Mimesis Doc Fest and a Poetry by Video Artist Award at Cadence Video Poetry festival.
Elisabeth Brun holds a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Oslo, 14 years of experience as a documentary filmmaker/ journalist (NRK) and a post-master in Art in Public Space from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Her forthcoming book, Place and the Moving Image (Routledge, 2025), examines the critical powers of experimental film practice in relation to place and environmental awareness, through her concept of Moving Image Topography.
Bruns work takes different forms such as films, installations, 3D work 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 Kings College´s Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment 2020, a special mention in the Emerging Artist Award at Mimesis Doc Fest and a Poetry by Video Artist Award at Cadence Video Poetry festival.
Elisabeth Brun holds a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Oslo, 14 years of experience as a documentary filmmaker/ journalist (NRK) and a post-master in Art in Public Space from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Her forthcoming book, Place and the Moving Image (Routledge, 2025), examines the critical powers of experimental film practice in relation to place and environmental awareness, through her concept of Moving Image Topography.
Upcoming and Recent
Invited screening, Arctic Film and Moving Image Festival AMIFF, Harstad, 24.11.2025
Monograph, Place and the Moving Image. Routledge, available for pre-order, publication 6th of November 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
Essay, “Reconfiguring the Mountain: A Topographical Approach to Aesthetics..”, in Aesthetics in the Age of Unreason, Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, vol.33, no.67. Eds. Maja Bak-Herrie & Tobias Dias. Published 31.07.2024.
Panel and launch of new special issue of the Screenworks Journal, “New Entanglements: Interrelations Between Film and Philosophy”, Film-Philosophy Conference, Esphino (PT). Online. 01.07.2024
Screening, Big Tech Blues - work in progress, Gnistsambandet - Opptakt, Festspillutstillingen, Lofoten International Art festival (LIAF) with Festspillene i Nord Norge / Arctic Arts Festival. Galleri Nord-Norge. 22.06 -29.06.2024
Invited talk and workshop, “Re-activating a 1980s Utopia through Collaborative Media Art.” Henrik Steffens Masterclass: Creativity and Collaboration, Humboldt University zu Berlin, 06.06.-08.06. 2024
Invited lecture on Moving Image Topography, @ PhD-seminar: “Artistic Research in Film and Related Audiovisual ArtForms”, The Norwegian Film School. 23.05-24.05. 2024
Committee member, doctoral defence for Marius Dybwad Brandrud, Öra nära munnen: samtal mellan film och filosofi, Stockholm University of the Arts. 07.05.2024
Committee member, doctoral defence for Nathalie Suck Fari, Situated Agencies: Mediating Places through the Body, Performing Arts, University of Gotheburg, 03.05.2024
Paper / demo of work in progress AR@K symposium: The Artist, the Ghost and the Machine, Kristiania University College, Oslo. 19.03.2024
Book contract signed with Routledge for Place and the Moving Image. 07.12.2023
Invited talk, Art in the Village, Art in the Landscape Symposium, Sophia University, Tokyo. Online. 07.12.2023
Launch of “Stubborn Mountains: traversing familiar topographies with Paul Cézanne” in Eigenssige Orte / Stubborn Places, Verlag Kettler, Berlin. Essay in anthology. 26.10.2023
Score/text, Of Public Interest (OPI) Lab exhibition, SPARK, Malmö. 20.10 - 19.11.2023.
Education
Postmaster, Art in Public Space, Of Public Interest (OPI Lab), Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (SE), 2022/2023
PhD, Media and Communications, University of Oslo (NO), 2020
Bilder Nordic School of Photography (NO), 2014
Master, Media and Communications, University of Oslo (NO), 2013
Master, International Journalism, City University, London (UK), 2001
Cand Mag/ BA Sociology, University of Oslo, 2000
Film Festivals and curated filmprogrammes (selection)
MedienKunstTage NRW, HMKV, Dortmunder U (DE), curated, 2025
The Norwegian Short Film Festival (NO), 2025
Arquiteturas Film Festival, Porto (PT), 2023
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.
Vienna Shorts (AUT), 2021
ArchFilm Lund (SE), 2021
Bogota Experimental Film Festival (CO), 2021
Mimesis Documentary Festival, Colorado (US), 2021
Cadence Video Poetry Festival, Seattle (US), 2021
Istanbul Experimental Film festival, (TR), 2021.
Exhibitions/Installations (selection)
- House of Broken Utopias / NODES Collective, VR-work + archival installation (variable dimensions). Sparks / Gnistsambandet, Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF), curated by Kjersti Solbakken. Group exhibition, 20.10 - 20.11. 2024.
- Big Tech Blues - work in progress, LIAF - Sparks / Gnistsambandet, group exhibition, 20.10 - 20.11. 2024.
- Big Tech Blues - work in progress, Gnistsambandet - Opptakt, Festspillutstillingen, Festspillene i Nord Norge / Arctic Arts Festival + LIAF, Galleri Nord-Norge, group exhibition, 22.06 - 29.06.2024.
- Disappear. Appear. (text-installation, vinyl on window), Of Public Interest (OPI) Lab exhibition, SPARK, Malmö. 20.10 - 19.11.2023.
-Hur knäcker knäckepilen / The Crackle, multi-channel sound installation + guided tour, group-show curated by Jasmine Hinks and Jonas Dahlberg, OPI Lab, Stockholm (SE), 2023.
-betweenebbandflow, group exhibition featuring 3xShapes of Home, MOM Art Space, Hamburg (DE), 2020.
-Szikago Pakrel: Future Archeology - collaborative film and 3-D-work, New Art City. Online, group exhibition How to Become a Posthuman, Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, 2022/23.
-Overflate / Underflate. Site-specific two channel sound & video installation. Funded by KORO / Public Art Norway. Fileten, Nyksund (NO). 2021
Awards
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
Best Documentary Award at Northern Character Film and TV Festival, Murmansk (RU), 2008
Grants / Fellowships
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
Norwegian Research Council (NFR), overseas travel grant for researchers, 2021
Visiting scholar at Filmuniversity Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Berlin 2021
Completion Grant Fellow (Gjennomføringsstipendiat), University of Oslo. 2020-2021
Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Oslo, 2016 -2020
Fritt Ord Foundation - Scholarship master thesis. 2013
Media Employment
Documentary film director and journalist, Norwegian Public Broadcasting (NRK). 2001-2014
Publications
Place and the Moving Image, monograph, Routledge, 2025
“Utopian Signals: Accidental Archivism of the Nyksund Ecotopia” in Metode, 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.
“Thinking Through Form”, Screenworks, 2021
Ørnemetoden, Norsk Medietidsskrift, 2021
3xShapes Home: a topographical moving image experiment, Textual Practice, vol 35 Taylor & Francis, 2021
Editor
New Entanglements special issue, Screenworks. Inter-relations between Film and Philosophy, 2024.
Reviewer
Screenworks, Intellect Books
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
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
Talks and Workshops (selected)
Invited talk and screening, Remote Control, Barents Spektakel, 2025
Invited talk at Future Maybe - a Seminar on Technology and Affect, Kabelvåg Art and Film School @ Tromsø International Film Festival TIFF, 2025.
Keynote, The Great Defrost Symposium, Galleri Gudmundsdottir, The Nordic Embassies, Berlin Art Week, 2024
Invited talk and workshop, Henrik Steffens Masterclass: Creativity and Collaboration, Humboldt University zu Berlin, 2024.
Invited lecture, PhD-seminar: Artistic Research in Film and Related Audiovisual ArtForms, The Norwegian Film School, 2024.
Paper, Transdisciplinarity in the Environmental Humanities Symposium, Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH), 2023
Invited talk, Imagine Earth, Lousiana Museum of Modern Art, 2023
Invited talk, Videographic Entanglements Symposium, University of Huddersfield, 2023.
Invited lecture, Centre for Excellence in Image Studies, University of Bucharest, 2023
Invited talk, Film as Thinking: Art, Architecture and the Moving Image. Seminar, NTNU, 2022
Paper, 13th SAR conference, Bauhaus University Weimar (DE), 2022.
Earlier workshops and presentations include Visible Evidence, Filmuniversität Babelsberg, Screen Cultures, UiO and Aarhus University (2021)
Member of
Aksjon for Filmkunst (AFF) / Action for Film art (NO)
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
Founding member of the NODES Collective - international artist group