Blue hour #3

BLUE HOUR is a Film Club at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, which screens Super 8 works by selected artists. The movie programme is organised and curated by Emma Rosenzweig and Alberte Grøndahl, who have invited four artists to join the third version of BLUE HOUR. A Super 8 camera has been passed on between artists Marie Karlberg, Esben Weile Kjær, Lizzi Bougatsos and Tal R and each artist has created one film.

The unedited films will premiere at Kunsthal Charlottenborg on 7 June at 8 PM. The screening will be followed by a party at Apollo Bar.

BLUE HOUR is a recurring event. Every movie night screens film pieces created on the basis of the same fixed framework, getting a number of artists to record between three and five rolls of film using the same Super 8 camera. The framework establishes an artistic platform where Danish and international artists all create a filmic piece based on the same gaze and approach. The results are shown together at one-night-only events to a common audience.

The analogue limits of the medium means that artists cannot edit or carry out revisions during the process. The rough, unfiltered feel, the texture of the cine-film and the intuition of the artist are fundamental for the process, action and progress of the project.

Esben Weile Kjær (born 1992).
‘Queen is a feeling’ is a re-enactment of how the Danish Queen arrives for the New Year’s Banquet at Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen. The piece is performed by Gina Jaqueline, a media personality known from her blog, Instagram profile and, later, TV and other mass media,. She will arrive in her car and pose to the press, but the public is absent although the echo from the cameras of the press and the yelling of the photographers can be heard in the palace square. Queen is a feeling suggests that the current centre of power and attention lies elsewhere. Maybe a place she is on her way to.

Lizzi Bougatsos (born 1974)
Fuelled by an innate tension, Bougatsos has made a movie based a dream she had recently: she paints a dead fish with nail polish and dances with knives to scare evil spirits away.

Tal R (born 1967)
The beautiful boy is dancing in the light, the beautiful boy is dancing behind the mask, the beautiful boy is a beautiful girl, the beautiful girl is lifting her skirt.

Marie Karlberg (born 1985)
The journey you are following starts with a woman, alone on the foggy beach of New Hampshire, America. She is looking for someone or something, but we do not know what. In a way she finds what she is looking for, and lies down on the rocks. She closes her eyes, is she dreaming? Suddenly humans are talking to her. Faces, faces, real faces, but also painted faces. They are telling her things, commentaries she has heard earlier, or is it a warning?