Video 4K, 25 min, 2025
Levninger av dag og natt (Remains of day and night) explores the history and landscape of the city of Bodø from a—literally—discarded perspective, using Bodø’s waste management history as its point of departure.
It is a story from and about the city’s relative fringes. The starting point was to map both unofficial and official waste management from a historical perspective, offering 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, something becomes waste only when it is in the wrong place at the wrong time. In waste management, an object moves from one form to another—both semantically and physically, even at the molecular level, whether through incineration, recycling, export, ruin, or burial.
The film traces, in a poetic and speculative manner, what has been discarded over time, as well as the social, economic, political, cultural, and material systems that have shaped this context.
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