North Norwegian Art Centre welcomes you to the pre-premiere of «Arrow and Bow» on Thursday, March 13th from 6 PM to 9 PM at Svolvær Cinema.

Director Camilla Figenschou will be present and participate in an artist talk with curator Adriana Alves and art historian Christopher Brautaset from North Norwegian Art Centre.

The event is open to everyone and free of charge.

«Arrow and Bow» is the uncompromising Director's cut version of Figenschou's «Bow and Arrow» from 2016. In connection with the exhibition at Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter, which shares the same title as the feature film "Bow and Arrow," Camilla Figenschou is finally completing the film project.

Figenschou, who currently teaches at the Film Art School in Kabelvåg, experienced a general lack of willingness to experiment and develop the film language in connection with the financing of the film, which for her own part made it difficult to achieve a necessary liberation from conventions.

- With this project, it was important to develop a completely unique working method that allowed for a searching, open gaze. In a way, the camera becomes the real main character, as it is through the gaze that the camera constitutes that the audience gets an entrance, an opportunity to experience and identify with the presence depicted, continues Figenschou.

The film takes place at an actual center for horse therapy in Bø, Vesterålen, and mixes real people associated with the center with the fictional character Mia, played by Anna Katharina Haukeland. The character Mia comes to the center periodically to undergo horse-assisted psychotherapy.

The situations in the film are inspired by what Figenschou observed over time during the development of the project. Figenschou's style is linked to a tendency in contemporary film known as sensory realism, where sensory experience is central. Instead of psychologically anchored stories, this approach emphasizes moods and audience experiences.

- The film is about deep presence, but at the same time, the film's form and style have a meditative quality, thus serving a function for the audience's experience. The presence with the surroundings, situations, and experiences that unfold in the film addresses the audience through its film language in a way that is quite common within the art field but not always accepted in feature films.

- With the exhibition at Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter, I finally get to complete my project as I wished.

Welcome to the pre-premiere of «Arrow and Bow» Thursday, March 13th at 6 PM at Svolvær Cinema.

Photo by Øystein Mamen: From the film «Arrow and Bow», 2016.

The film is produced with support from Fond for lyd og bilde, the Norwegian Film Institute, and Nordnorsk Filmsenter.