SEA-Nordic Film Festival: The Group Crit

Start: Sunday, September 15, 2024 5:00PM
End: Sunday, September 15, 2024 6:30PM

Contemporary art has become an arena for political clashes, and this is nowhere more evident than at art academies. Norwegian artist Sille Storihle has designed a role-playing game to explore these issues. The rules are clear: students at the Film Art School in Kabelvåg are given fictional characters, which they develop further and embody in group critiques of each other’s works. But even though the rules are clear, the game itself can easily get out of hand! And it does in The Group Crit, where the students (all in character) do not hold back from criticizing each other’s artworks—and each other in general—soon blurring the performative frame of the heated debate. This collective experiment challenges not only the students’ self-perception but also Storihle’s own authority as the director. An important, witty, and wild work created with the active participation of the students. See this film and more at the SEA-Nordic Film Festival — visit nordicmuseum.org/snff to explore your options for individual tickets and all-access Festival Passes.