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KINOBOX

LIAF 2024

KINOBOX at Havneterminalen Photo: Kjell Ove Storvik
KINOBOX at Havneterminalen, Photo: Kjell Ove Storvik

Lofoten International Art Festival
SPARKS
20.09.24 - 20.10.24
KINOBOX is screening at:

1. The Port Terminal

Monday-Sunday 05:00 - 22:00

Part 1
August 31st - September 21
Light Observation
Ruth & Alexander, Norway, 2022, digital film, 9:15 min.

Part 2
September 22 - October 20
Film Letters I
Valentina Alvarado Matos, Spain, 2020, Super 8 / digital, 3:47 min.

Film Letters II
Valentina Alvarado Matos, Spain, 2020, Super 8 / digital, 4:04 min.

Part 3
October 20 - December 1
Two Moon July
Directed by Tom Bowes, USA, 1986, 53:54 min.
Produced for The Kitchen by Carlota Schoolman
Courtesy of The Kitchen’s Archives
Curated by Wong Kit Yi and Alison Burstein, The Kitchen, in relation to Wong Kit Yi’s contribution to LIAF, co-commissioned by North Norwegian Art Centre and The Kitchen.


Find festival map, and download the full version of the guidebook here.

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.

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  • What we do
    • Exhibitions
    • Lofoten International Art Festival LIAF
    • Artist Guesthouse Svolvær
    • Shop
    • Mediation
    • The Cultural School Bag
    • Art in Public Space
    • Northern Norwegian Artist Register
    • North Norwegian Art Centre on the Road
    • Project funding
    • Grants
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    • Organisation and Board
    • Annual Meeting
    • Partners and networks
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