Artist: Kajsa Dahlberg (SW)
Genre: Art Film
Sweden, 2002 / 2 min (DV), b/w, colour & sound

The Film
Whiteout proposes a reflection on the relationship between the formal components of a film and its narrative structure. In Whiteout the pictorial space is almost entirely exhausted. Only a few contours are left in an otherwise all-white image that is saved from going blank by a dialogue between two protagonists. Walking through a city landscape, their voices, partly drowned in traffic noise, discuss their apparent exhaustion with imagery, while eventually giving in to the fact that also the image of nothing, consequently, becomes a metaphor.

Kajsa Dahlberg
Kajsa Dahlberg (b. 1973 in Gothenborg, Sweden) lives and works in Malmö, SE. Her works focus on the relationship between the narrative structure and the material she uses (almost always film of one kind or another). In Andersonville (2004), a video work in two parts, Kajsa Dahlberg explores a community constructed on the idea of national heritage. Andersonville is an area in north Chicago with a Swedish museum and many shops and restaurants offering various forms of "Swedishness". Like so many cities in the USA, Chicago is divided into several territories characterised by different nationalities. Chicago is a nation of nations, where the Swedish nation also has a given place. This is only to be expected, in view of the fact that there were more Swedes in Chicago than in Gothenburg around the turn of the previous century.
(From: www.modernamuseet.se)