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What does a life look like? What is taking place between the larger narratives? Behind the stories about ourselves and our world, which we constantly try to convey, formulate and renegotiate? With the film Discrete Mathematics we want to draw the attention to the small details that at first glance can be perceived as disparate and fragmentary.
In a world where algorithms are a present and daily used word and also influence what we see, do and perceive, we have attached our thought to the word discreet. Discrete, which in mathematical contexts describes something that is not connected to anything but exists by itself. In mathematics, the word discrete is used to describe objects that are not continuous and exist by themselves. Discrete mathematics is applied in a number of different areas such as encryption, databases, game theory, graph theory and algorithms.
The participants improvise based on certain given conditions inspired by participants’ real experiences, the audience gets to share glimpses of different ongoing lives and attention is directed to the small details that at first glance can be perceived as disparate.
Lucia Pagano is a filmmaker and artist educated at the Film School in Lodz, and at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Her films focus on details in everyday life, often by observing seemingly meaningless fragments of reality, sometimes to absurdity. A film is more often held together by an idea or concept than a linear narrative structure. Her films have been shown at festivals around the world, in for example Sao Paolo, San Francisco, Toronto, Kiev, Petrozavodsk, Warsaw and has been awarded or honorary mentioned at film festivals in LA, in Oberhausen, Warsaw, Stockholm, and at the Nordic Panorama Film Festival.
Park, was nominated for best short at the Göteborg Film Festival, and for the Tempo Short Award and won the Tempo Sound Award 2020. Her film Nadine was recently awarded at the Prague International Indie Film Festival.
Vanja Sandell Billström
Vanja Sandell Billström works as an artist and filmmaker. Her working methods switch between documentary, fictional staging and video installations. The films often revolve around everyday situations, and with characters that seemingly spontaneously reflect on everyday conditions or the situation that the film itself requires. Sandell Billströms film ‘The Photographer’ was nominated for both a Guldbagge for best short film and the Startsladden Award at Göteborgs Filmfestival. Sandell Billström has studied at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and has exhibited at Göteborg Konsthall, Supermarket Art Fair, Box Gallery and Färgfabriken. Park was nominated for best short at the Göteborg Film Festival, and for the Tempo Short Award and won the Tempo Sound Award 2020.
