IMAGE <=> TEXT is a seminar series, hosted by The Film, Photography and Literary Composition Unit, HDK-Valand, which aims to unfold the myriad interconnectedness of words and pictures, whether they appear in the form of artist’s books, films, narrative photography, materialist poetics or ekphrasis.
The start of the 2022 season of IMAGE-TEXT commences with a conversation with well-known filmmaker and writer Mia Engberg. Her work develops from an audacious capacity to work with black screens and sound with narratives that explore intimacy in relationships, memories and experiences. In this conversation she will expand on ideas in her research with darkness as cinematic material, her trilogy: Belleville Baby, Lucky One and Black Bird and the use of visual silence as an aesthetics. Mia will discuss both the artistic and theoretic inspiration and influences on her creative practice and the significance of Marguerite Duras in how she views the relationship between her films and the books she has written. The conversation will take place in English and Mia will share short excepts from her visual work and written texts.
BIO: Mia Engberg
Mia Engberg is a filmmaker, writer and researcher based in Stockholm. She was educated in Ateliers Varan in Paris and at the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. As a director she has made several films ranging from short cutting-edge documentaries to poetic fiction and feminist porn. She was the curator and producer of Dirty Diaries – 12 shorts of feminist porn that explored the female gaze through queer identity. Her feature films Belleville Baby and Lucky One has won several international awards and are both part of a cinematic trilogy based on artistic research exploring the aesthetics of visual silence. The third part – with the working title Black Bird - is currently in production. Engberg has written two books, played in a ska band called Vagina Grande and is currently a PhD student at Stockholm UniArts where she is exploring Darkness as material.
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