Artist: Annika Ström (SW)
Genre: Art Film
Sweden, 2003 / 16 min (DV), colour & sound

The Film
The artist asked her friends to identify the people in family and leisure time snapshots. Their reactions of oblivion and the gaps in memory bespeak a melancholic awareness of the fluctuating nature and impermanence of relationships, fraternal or amorous. Quick changes to different improvised sequences, accompanied by self-made and performed pop songs, with simple lyrics and electronic rhythm, keep the film at ease and vivid.
Text: Sabine Schmidt

Annika Ström
Annika Ström (b. 1964 in Helsingborg, Sweden) lives and works in Berlin since 1993. Selected exhibitions: everything in this show can be used against me at Casey Kaplan in New York City, U.S.A., 2003; Vatt på video at Charlotte Lund in Stockholm, Sweden, 2002; Songs for a Time Like This at Atle Gerhardsen in Berlin, Germany, 2001; grant for revolutionary at Goldman tevis in Los Angeles, U.S.A., 2000; Ten New Love Songs at Wiener Secession in Vienna, Austria, 1999; Manuscript Song at Galleria Sonia Rosso in Pordenone, Italy, 1999.