Norwegian premiere and conversation: Moving Ice by Susan Schuppli

Name: Norwegian premiere and conversation: Moving Ice by Susan Schuppli
Start: 2024-05-21T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-05-21T19:30:00+02:00
Location: Cinemateket i Bergen

Schedule

Tue May 21 2024 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Cinemateket i Bergen | Bergen, HO

Join us for the Norwegian premiere of researcher and artist Susan Schuppli’s new film "Moving Ice". The screening will be followed by a conversation between Schuppli and Åse Løvgren.
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ABOUT THE MOVIE
Ice has always moved, but is now moving faster than ever, as anthropogenic factors accelerate climatic changes. The Earth is burning up, and ice is on the move. However, in the early 1800s colonialism and capitalism had already joined forces to move ice. Not as an unforeseen consequence of industrialization – which we now recognise as a key accelerator of atmospheric warming – but as a commodity in and of itself. This came to be known as the "frozen water trade", a trans-hemispheric commerce in natural ice that moved its crystal cargo along the well-established shipping routes of plantation economies and the spice trade. This film tells the story of how European and American merchants tried to cool the tropics through the financialisation of temperature, shipping natural ice extracted from glaciers and winter lakes to colonial elites around the world.
Moving Ice collects stories of the frozen water trade in places like Folgefonna and Svartisen in Norway, the US and India, and it looks at traces from the historical ice trade together with contemporary practices with ice.
Written & directed by Susan Schuppli, 4K colour & sound, 48 mins, 2024
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The screening at Cinemateket i Bergen is presented in collaboration with BEK – Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts. The film is also screened in Oslo the following day at Kunstnernes Hus, 22 May.
BEK – Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts – is an interdisciplinary production centre for art and technology. BEK develops, produces and showcases projects in the intersection of contemporary art, technology, theory and social critique. BEK organises practical and theoretical workshops on artistic use of technology and offers advice and production support to artists. In its studios and production facilities, BEK hosts residencies for artists, focussing on artistic research and experimenting. BEK's discursive programme explores ethical and political aspects of technological development.
"Moving Ice" is commissioned by BEK and Sonic Acts. The world premiere took place in Eye Filmmuseum as part of Sonic Acts Biennial 2024. "Moving Ice" is part of New Perspectives for Action, a project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union. The project is supported by Arts Council Norway and the artistic research project Illuminating the Non-Representable, at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen.
For informasjon på norsk se www.bek.no.