Filter City

Artist: Knut Åsdam (NO)
Genre: Art Film
Norway + Switzerland, 2003 / 21 min (35 mm),
colour & sound

The Film
Filter City focuses on two women, their relation to each other and to a city that is in transformation architectonically, politically and socially. The film uses scenes from modern apartment complexes that resonate with different Western cities. The urban spaces that they use are both »theirs« to use, but also out of their economic or social control. The characters narrate the spaces they inhabit and use, and also their desires for friendship, intimacy and meaning. The women’s relationship develops through placement and through their different use of language where in fact they are talking to, yet past each other. One character attempts adopting a searching and affirmative use of language, while the other uses a depressed speech as her social medium.

Knut Åsdam
Knut Åsdam (b. 1968 in Trondheim, Norway) lives in New York and Son, Norway.
For more information please see: www.knutasdam.net.

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