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 On Land and Air, shot in the dusty field that used to be the runway of Gaza International Airport, symbolises the restricted travel by air. The mount is an Arabian horse, which was originally bred in the desert and primarily used by the nomadic Bedouins exiled after the war of 1948. Kent Klich’s video also references Eadweard Muybridge’s iconic photographic experiments from the 1870s in which Muybridge demonstrated that all four of a horse’s hooves leave the ground at a gallop so that it does in fact fly – albeit momentarily. The video probes the dream and hope of flying, despite the closure of the airspace in Gaza.
Kent Klich was born 1952 in Sweden. He studied psychology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and photography at International Center of Photography, New York, USA. He joined Magnum in 1998 and left in 2002. Kent Klich is a visual artist and educator working within the fields of photography and film, slow journalism, and collaborative methodologies of image-making and representation. He focuses on the interconnection between disciplines; an image never stands alone but links with language, objects, sounds, and documents. His work narrates the social and political realities that we inhabit in their complexities by questioning and creating a multiplicity of entry points into unresolved issues, giving room to critical reflection as much as a space for emotional engagement. Areas of work; Denmark, Mexico, Romania, Palestine/Israel and Russia.
