Naturfilm

Elisa Rossholm

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’Naturfilm’ (nature film) consist of three image based essays that reflect on the relation between mankind and nature in Swedish classical nature documentaries, and also on modernity’s negotiation of the separation of nature and human culture by large. The essays include reflections on landscape, natural resources, species and gender relations, indigenous cultures and media materiality. The essays combine images and voice-over, more specifically a series of drawings of still images from existing film footage combined with fragmentary reflections on the images as media inscription and representation. The essays are media transformations of existing Swedish documentary films from the peak of the classical era, namely from the late 1930s until the early 1950s. In an ecological context, this period represents what is labeled ‘the great acceleration’, an increased exploitation of natural resources, and to some extent an intensified separation of nature and human activities.

’Naturfilm’ består av tre kortare bildessäer som reflekterar över relationen mellan människa och natur i klassisk svensk naturdokumentärfilm. I arbetet belyses också hur distinktionen mellan natur och kultur förhandlas inom moderniteten. Essäerna omfattar reflektioner över landskapet, naturen som resurs, art- och genusrelationer, ursprungskulturer och mediets materialitet. I bildessäerna kombineras tecknade bilder med en berättarröst; teckningar av frysta filmbilder från dokumentärfilmer visas parallellt med berättarröstens fragmentariska reflektioner över bilden som representation och materiell inskription. Essäerna är mediala transformationer av svenska dokumentärfilmer från den klassiska erans höjdpunkt, mellan sent 1930-tal och det tidigt 1950-tal. Denna period sammanfaller med ’den stora accelerationen’, då exploateringen av naturens resurser ökar explosionsartat samtidigt som avståndet mellan människa och natur ökar.

type	research exposition
keywords	FILM, nature, documentary, drawing, Essay Film, 1940s, Arne Sucksdorff, Stig Wesslen, The great acceleration, ecology
date	22/09/2020
published	15/03/2021
last modified	15/03/2021
status	published
share status	private
copyright	Elisa Rossholm, Anna Sofia Rossholm
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	Swedish
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/998626/998627
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/vis.998626
published in	VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
portal issue	5. VIS Issue 5

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