Video 4K, ca 25 min, in production, to be completed September 2025
Levninger av dag og natt (Remains of day and night) explores the city of Bodø’s history and landscape from a, quite literally, discarded perspective, based on Bodø’s history of waste management. It is a story from and about the city’s relative margins. The starting point is to map both unofficial and official waste management from a historical perspective which offers a different view of the city’s history and landscape.
Every place has its own history of waste and waste management. In each place, this history will reflect the place’s history, identity, values, dreams, and nightmares. Waste is about language, systems, and rituals. Waste, garbage, waste management, etc., are relative concepts—like weeds and pests, it only becomes waste when it is in the wrong place at the wrong time. In waste management, an object moves from one form to another—both semantically, but also physically and molecularly, whether through incineration, recycling, export, ruin, or burial.
The film traces, in a poetic and speculative manner, what has been discarded throughout time, and the social, economic, political, cultural, and material systems that have created the context.
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