BLÅ TIME

BLÅ TIME is a film club at Kunsthal Charlottenborg presenting Super8 works by selected artists. The film programme is curated by Emma Rosenzweig and Albert Grøndahl, who have invited the four artists Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Alexander Tovborg, Emma Kohlmann and Jesper Fabricius to participate in the first edition of BLÅ TIME. Four films by four artists, all shot with the same Super8 camera. The films are unedited, and premiere at Kunsthal Charlottenborg June 22 at 8pm with afterparty at Apollo Bar.

BLÅ TIME is a returning event. Every film night presents works created from the same concept, where a number of selected artists alternately have recorded 3-5 rolls of film with the same Super8 camera. The concept functions as an artistically platform, where both Danish and international artists create a cinematic work through the same lens, which are presented at the same time to the same audience.

With the media’s analogue limits it is not possible for the artist to edit and experience the material during the process. The raw expression, the materiality of the 8mm film and the artist’s intuition are the foundation for the project’s process, duration and progress.

Ursula Reuter Christiansen, b. Germany 1947, visual artist
Ursula Reuter Christiansen has given her film, which she has recorded around her home at the Danish island Møn, the title ‘Med Det Halve Øje’. Ursula has worked with the 8mm film several times, but has not worked with Super8 for many years. In her film, she explores her many identities, considers her family’s art, and places her paintings by the sea, while she wonders about Marie Grubbe’s life.

Jesper Fabricius, b. Denmark 1957, visual artist
Jesper Fabriciu’s film is without a title and consists of a range of scenes, which are rerecording of films he has made in Super8 and 16mm: ‘DANMARKSFILM 1 – 3’ and ‘SPROGET ER DET HUS VI BOR I’. He looks at landscapes, cityscapes and accumulations through the mechanic media with 18 slide pr. second. In one of the scenes he reads from one of his poetry collections – mutely.

Emma Kohlmann, b. USA 1989, visual artist
Emma Kohlmann has not worked with Super8 before. Her film is created as one long montage recorded in Massachusetts at her trips in the forest, around her studio and her everyday life.

Alexander Tovborg, b. Denmark 1983, visual artist
Alexander Tovborg has never worked with Super8 before. His film is recorded in Mexico, and Alexander has written a short introduction to his film:
”Ay, ay, ay ay. Syng og græd ikke. For når du synger, bliver hjertet glad. Lille smukke sky, hele hjertet.”