We'll find you when the sun goes black
Video, b/w, 16:9, stereo, BE/NO, 2021, 6'
Inspired by the Terella, a small magnetised model ball representing the Earth, used by scientists to investigate the aurora until the late 20th century.
And by a Bertolt Brecht poem, written in exile in the 1930s: “In the dark times / Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing / About the dark times.”
A silent version was previously on display at Tromsø Kunstforening. The version with music had its premiere at Klarafestival.
Music Vessel
Voices Helga Davis, Seb Gainsborough
Animation Thomas De Brabanter
Produced by Auguste Orts
With the support of Tromsø Kunstforening, Klarafestival
Distributed by Auguste Orts
Awards
Prix du Jury, Festival Tous Courts 2021 (FR)
Previously on display at the following locations
- Kunstforening Tromsø (NO),
- Klarafestival Brussels (BE),
- Proximus Pickx Brussels (BE),
- Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg (DE),
- SLAC/Beeldende & Audiovisuele Kunst Leuven (BE),
- MIEFF Moscow (RU),
- POW Film Fest Portland (US),
- Film Festival Split (HR),
- Museo Nitsch Napoli (IT),
- Extra City Antwerpen (BE),
- Festival du nouveau cinéma Montréal (CA),
- Festival Tous Courts d’Aix-en-Provence Aix-en-Provence (FR),
- Université de Arts Plastiques de Tourcoing (FR),
- California Institute of the Arts Los Angeles (US),
- Souwester Seaview (US),
- Anita Astoria (US),
- Hollywood Theatre Portland (US),
- Cinema RITCS Brussels (BE),
- Short Waves Festival Poznan (PL),
- St Joost School of Art and Design Breda (NL),
- Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux Paris (FR),
- Video Power Maastricht (NL),
- Festival de l'histoire de l'art Fontainebleau (FR),
- SoundImageCulture Brussels (BE),
- Image Forum Tokyo (JP),
- National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto (JP),
- Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art Nagoya (JP),
- Artefact Leuven (BE),
- Courtisane Gent (BE),
- CalArts Los Angeles (US),
- Fabrica Research Centre Treviso (IT),
- Kunsthal Exnergasse Vienna (AT),
- Film Festival Oostende (BE),
- Nectar from Another Planet Poznan (PL),