KINOBOX

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Micro-cinema KINOBOX is an intimate screening space dedicated to showing artists' moving-image works, easily accessible and free, to the public. Formed after the photo-booths that are often tucked away in transitional public spaces, the little kiosk offers the opportunity to return, over and over, building up a relationship to a film, an artist or artists' moving image more generally. Or you can just pop in, while waiting for a bus, a boat, or a person.

Deliberately sited at the transit terminal in Svolvær (and its twin in Tromsø) – a site of distribution and connection for people, families, workers, tourists and cargo – it presents art film as part of this flow, as valuable to distribute and make accessible to communities.

The films play on a loop from 05:00 in the morning until 22:00. The box holds 1-2 people and films can be experienced through a back-projected screen and speaker.

Ruth Aitken and Sarah Schipschack, both based in Tromsø, have collaborated together for over 6 years, working to expand access and knowledge around artists' film and filmmaking practices. They initiated KINOBOX together in 2020 and run Polar Film Lab, a DIY arts collective working with analogue experimental film. Ruth Alexander Aitken (b. 1990) is a Scottish artist working with themes around labour, economics and resource distribution through film, performance, and curation. Sarah Schipschack (b. 1976) is a German curator and arts mediator, specialising in artists' moving image and expanded practices, previously running Filmgalerie Alpha60 and Reihe Experimantalfilm, and curating for Kurant Kino and AMIFF.