Erla Silfá Þorgrímsdóttir (NO)

There is a frenzy of noise and clamor surrounding our paths of everyday movement. Listening carefully to this can reveal a multitude of voices that manifest narratives, dreams, hope, despair and real experiences of lived life. Þorgrímsdóttir, who recently graduated at Konstfack in Stockholm, is with her Bootleg-series navigating through shopping centers, public transport, bars, cafés and so on in search of these narratives; scenes of spaces that is regarded as public but where the “publicness” is threatened through privatization and surveillance. The politics of a space dictates the configuration of the narratives told and ultimately shape our dreams, hope, despair… Passion Hymns: Bootleg is recorded segments from the public life of Reykjavik, edited together into a composition of “dark cinema”. As the passion pit was disguised as a drive-in cinema, the noise of public life conceal hymns of passion.