The Silver Record Festival Day 2

Day 2 of the festival presents a vibrant collection of films by Photo North which explore the relationship between humans and their surroundings. The evening continues with the screening program, Expanded Nature presented by Emmanuel Lefrant. The program features experimental cinema exploring the plurality of live and the world as the interconnected network with humans and non-human agents. The evening concludes with Britt al Busultan’s expanded cinema performance, what comes around goes around, blending film and live elements in a unique experience.

15:00 - Scratch Performance - From the Print, project & perform workshop

16:00 - Questions About the North, Time and Human Ecology, screening by Photo North

17:15 - Expanded Nature film program with an introduction by Emmanuel Lefrant from Light Cone

19:30 - Expanded cinema performance by Britt al Busultan

After the performance you are invited to join a Film Quiz with Tromsø Filmklubb at Storgata Camping from 20:30!

More about the programme:

15:00 - Scratch Performance - From the Print, project & perform workshop
Following a 3-day workshop, led by Britt Al-Busultan, the workshop participants will present a ‘scratch’ performance - an embryonic experimentation into working with expanded cinematic forms and liveness as material. Through the workshop they will have experimented with hand-processing 16mm film, creating matts, rayogramming and printing, then using multiple projectors to create a performance.

16:00 - Questions About the North, Time and Human Ecology, curated by Photo North

Photo North – Northern Photographic Centre’s screening programme Questions About the North, Time and Human Ecology takes the viewer on a journey from springs bubbling in the middle of wilderness through small forest-encircled city suburbs to reflect on the complex and conflicted relationship between humans and their surroundings. In media artist Arttu Nieminen’s works, Ultima Kaltio and Awareness, the viewer is invited to a realm under the earth, as well as, surreal prophecies where awareness of mankind reaches to the heavens as a threat to God. In media artist Panu Johansson’s works, Who Has Seen the Wind? and Picturing a Micropolis: 96100-97690, we see glimpses and moments, memories and seasons, of decades of lives next to old and vivid forest areas as well as arctic city suburbs made of concrete. Artist Simi Ruotsalainen’s works, Lohijoki – The Salmon River and Bresnay le 18bre 1913, raise questions about ecological logistics, environmental debates, and the importance of communication. Finally, we see Leena Lehti’s experimental short film trilogy Existence dedicated to insects and life, and referring to the alarming decline in insect populations.

Safety note: Some films contain flickering and loud sounds

Duration: 55 min

Ultima Kaltio, Arttu Nieminen, 2021, FI, digital
Who Has Seen the Wind? Panu Johansson, 2023, FI, Super-8 Film
Lohijoki – The Salmon River, Simi Ruotsalainen, 2022, FI, mixed format
Existence I, Leena Lehti, 2023-24, FI, hand processed 16 mm film
Existence II, Leena Lehti, 2025, FI, hand processed 16 mm film
Existence III, Leena Lehti, 2025, FI, hand processed 16 mm film
Bresnay le 18bre 1913, Simi Ruotsalainen, 2025, FI, mixed format
Picturing a Micropolis: 96100-97690, Panu Johansson, 2018, FI, Super-8 Film
Awareness, Arttu Nieminen, 2019, FI, digital

17:15 - Film Screening: Expanded Nature film program with an introduction by Emmanuel Lefrant from Light Cone

"Two seemingly disparate trajectories intersected at the end of the 1960s: the expansion of the modes of production and exhibition of moving images (with the apparition of Expanded Cinema) and the reduction of the natural world (rampant extractivism leading to a depletion of the living world, soil degradation, extinction of wild species…). This collision of mediatic and environmental destinies provoked contradictory emotions in experimental filmmakers. Feeling a loss of connection with nature, they imbued their filmic techniques and apparatuses with a greater ecological conscience. Expand the means of cinema or expand nature?

While our era is marked by the magnitude of the effects of human actions on the rest of the living world (the Anthropocene), filmmakers take up ecological practices that aim to decenter the privilege claimed by the human species. Experimental cinema is seen as one of the ways to open up to the plurality of life, to conceive of the world as an interconnected network, to update the links between human and non-human agents. The very methods of filmmaking can become the terrain of ecological political action: artisanal alternatives to productivism, forming eco-conscious and activist collectives, exploring processes such as phytography and eco-processing.” Elio Della Noce and Lucas Murari (co-editors of the book, “Expanded Nature”)

Safety note: multiple films contain flicker

Duration: 76 min

Seven Days, Chris Welsby, 1974, 20 min
Cailloux, Rocher, Algues, David Dudouit, 2009, 5 min
In the shadow of Marcus mountain, Robert Schaller, 2011, 5 min
Voiliers et Coquelicots (Poppies and Sailboats), Rose Lowder, 2 min
Buffalo Lifts, Christina Battle, 2004, 3 min
Parties visible et invisible d’un ensemble sous tension, Emmanuel Lefrant, 2009, 7 min
ATHYRIUM FILIX-FEMINA, Kelly Egan, 2016, 4 min
Phytography, Karel Doing, 2020, 8 min
OR/ AOR, Budapest, Jacques Perconte, 2018, 4 min
Discoveries on the forest floor, Charlotte Pryce, 2006, 4 min
Itzcóatl, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, 2016, 5 min
Stream Line, Chris Welsby, 1976, 8 min

19:30 - Performance: What comes around goes around by Britt al Busultan

In the wake of the green energy transition, structures of modern technology arise in the landscape. With increased electrical infrastructure consisting of, for example, wind turbines, power plants, transmission stations, interconnected energy systems are all around us. Smart and clean. The belief in our salvation through the energy transition is unshaken, even if lots of nature has to be removed for it. What comes around goes around is a kind attempt of resistance in a world where technology, speed, youth and the triumph over nature are admired, and everything else is regarded as unwanted, slow, obsolete and backwards. According to Bergson duration cannot be expressed in words, and can only be shown indirectly through images that can never reveal a complete picture. This project is an attempt in our fast paced world with smart, clean and super fast technology, to grasp the notion of time and duration which is incomplete and continuously growing, stating no beginning nor ending in a kinetic panorama.

Accompanying the images is the track Kimaltava lätäkkö from the album Yö Näkyy by Olli Aarni. Made out of tapeloops, short snippets and longer waves gradually go back and forth and slowly build up spaces to settle in. The blissful harmonies bring out the nuance from elegiac synth waves, using subtle processed environmental recordings to add texture.

Safety note: This performance will contain flashing lights and flicker.

Duration: 20 min

20:30 Filmquizz at Storgata Camping with Tromsø Filmklubb

Join us for a special Filmquizz at Storgata Camping! The quizzmasters are Rikke Harr Dybdahl and Sondre Sætaberget from Tromsø Filmklubb.