Wednesday seminar: Film screening

This seminar is part of the Wednesday seminar series this autumn, where we explore a wide range of emerging methods and practices in artistic research. Here you can learn more about the series and discover upcoming seminars!

There are days that never end. Days that remain in the body, in objects, in language.

How can a film carry memories, portray experiences of violence, and at the same time refuse forgetting?

These are the questions we explore in Femton noll tre nittonde januari två tusen sexton (2024), a film that resists simplified narratives of the deadly violence affecting Sweden’s suburbs. Through everyday gestures, objects, and spaces, the film opens a place for both mourning and resistance.

At the center is Carolina Sinisalo, who lost her son Robin in a shooting. The film is the result of a long-term collaboration in which her experiences and stories shape the film’s aesthetics. Rather than reproducing the spectacle of violence, the film explores how a collective grieving process can be conveyed, and how memories can be shared through the language of film.

After the screening, filmmaker and researcher Marius Dybwad Brandrud, producer Marta Dauliute, and activist and mother Carolina Sinisalo will share their perspectives on the work and discuss how film can be both an aesthetic expression and a political practice.

Welcome to a seminar that invites reflection on film as a carrier of memory, on the language of grief, and on what it means to refuse forgetting

Organiser: Professor Petra Bauer, Stockholm University of the Arts
Profile area: Art, Technology and Materiality

Fifteen Zero Three Nineteenth of January Two Thousand Sixteen (Femton noll tre nittonde januari två tusen sexton) (2024, 62 min)
Directed by Petra Bauer & Marius Dybwad Brandrud
Produced by Marta Dauliute / MDEMC
In collaboration with Carolina Sinisalo