In this text I will talk about how I want to explore different places and the meaning of materials, combine narratives and build a story where fiction and reality mix without hard boundaries. An essayistic approach to creating a story based on an actual place. Slowly the place itself seems to fade away but at the same time a new place seems to become visible. A transition I am interested in exploring more and will adress in different ways in the text. The Glitter factory will work as a exempel on how to work with a place in order to talk about different themes and how to tune oneself differently in order to portray different stories, places and thoughts.

There is something fictitious with the material tinsel itself. The house does not look like a real factory and more and more the presence of my parents there seems to be a central point. In the middle of all this, it is also a story about my parents and my relationship to them. I’m filming them over and over again and the house started to become some kind of camera obscura where different scenes from life, dreams, imagination were coming to life in the house trough filming. The house as a big box where thoughts go in and are creating images in the house. New questions arose that also shaped this text and the project I’m working on. What ways are there to convey a place and when is the place being dismantled or build up? How does the search for a film happen, what are the expectations, what is imagined and dismantled and how does this affect the narrative, both in the film to come and in the narrative of life?

I started a search for an artwork among tinsel, sunglasses, binoculars, zippers, radio waves, parents, volcanoes and film directors. In this house the feeling of time passing seemed to have been specially materialized and the ongoing pandemic seemed to put all the spotlights on mortality.