Filmform (est. 1950) is dedicated to preservation, promotion and worldwide distribution of experimental film and video art. Constantly expanding, the distribution catalogue spans from 1924 to the present, including works by Sweden’s most prominent artists and filmmakers, available to rent for public screenings and exhibitions as well as for educational purposes.
The video is an interview with a member of a lesbian activist group. The interview revolves around the need for the group to create separatist rooms. These rooms doesn’t open up to the surrounding world in search for dialogue, but tries to define itself from within. One example of this is a separatist porn film project made on the premises that it cannot be shown to any men. You can’t buy the film and the only way to see it is if someone gives it to you in a kind of relay system based on trust. In a fundamental way the project deal with the power structures in pornography by redefining the relationship between sexes, and by making the idea of sexuality as a commodity impossible.
On several levels 20 Minutes (Female Fist) investigates the borders of ‘the public’. Besides a long silent scene from a public place it’s shot with the lens cap left on the camera, were the critique of representation itself becomes extended to also include the spectator.
Kajsa Dahlberg is a visual artist, born 1973 in Gothenburg, currently living in Oslo. Dahlberg’s work is informed by queer life practices – its theories, and affinities and she has worked with a range of mediums including film, video, installations, text, and collaborative projects. For the past few years, she has been engaged with thinking about the apparatus of film as something that is not exclusively the product of human decisions, but also, in part, the product of the activity of agents other than ourselves. This work has partly been conducted within the framework of her Ph.D. Tidal Zones – Filming Between Life and Images (2024), carried out at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Dahlberg received her MFA at The Art Academy in Malmö 1998-2003 and was a studio fellow at the Whitney Program in New York 2007-08. Her work is represented in the collections of Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Malmö Art Museum, Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg, KORO (Kunst i Offentlige Rom) Oslo, and Video-Forum at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, n.b.k, in Berlin. Dahlberg is currently teaching at the Film Arts School in Kabelvåg, in Lofoten, Norway.
