Filmform (est. 1950) is dedicated to preservation, promotion and worldwide distribution of experimental film and video art. Constantly expanding, the distribution catalogue spans from 1924 to the present, including works by Sweden’s most prominent artists and filmmakers, available to rent for public screenings and exhibitions as well as for educational purposes.
In the performance fresco The 00 ́s are Trendy Now, Sara Sjölin comments on a fashion show by Martin Margiela from 2000/01. The runway is set in an old basement-like environment with models wearing large, moth-eaten clothing and outgrown hair. When reading the signs of the fashion in this legendary avant-garde runway show, Sjölin draws parallels to the kidnapping-scare that was present when she grew up in the 90’s and early 00’s. Suddenly an adolescent-like shadow appears doing an illustrative dance to the speech.
The work of Swedish-Swiss artist Sara Sjölin is centered on the affective dimensions of comedy as it emerges in aestheticized forms of tragedy, mundane observation and spontaneous imagination. Enacted in film, speech, performance and installation, Sjölin’s work fictionalizes partial truths, creatively resituates them and brings them into view through processes of tentative sense making, gradually revealing the multifaceted and dynamically shifting nature of meta-narrative and poetic worlds. Sara Sjölin has presented her work at Uniondocs (US), Lagune Ouest (DK), Kunsthaus Zürich (CH), Konstnärshuset (SE), CPH:DOX (DK), Copenhagen Contemporary (DK), Galleri Susanne Ottesen (DK), Krukan Sportsbar (SE), Østerbro Stadion (DK), Kunsthal Aarhus (DK) and SALTS (CH). She has been an Artist in Residence at the Danish Institute in Rome and at ISCP in New York. Sjölin holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
