The Norwegian artist and filmmaker Bodil Furu represents a practice of idiosyncratic multiple documentary characterized by long bouts of research and cooperation with the protagonists. In her films, she balances documentary and fictive narrative strategies impressively. The UdK’s art and media program and Arsenal invited her to show her films as part of the "aesth/ethics of trust" course. In 12 STUDIES ON SHIT (2007) various research genres are acted out. OPERA (2008) concentrates on the invisible work behind the scenes at the first national opera house in Oslo and on the building’s past an as an anti-elitist theater for workers. In MISTY CLOUDS (2011), which was made in the coal-mining region of the north Chinese province of Shanxi, Furu depicts the locals and their urgent reflections on the environment. There will be another program on 5.7. (mb)(28.6.)
