ROSA
Public Video Installation, Hötorget, Stockholm 2004
3 channel projection / 14 min loop
Three video projections one on top of the other synchronized and projected on the façade of a city skyscraper. The three projections showed different sequences from a film thus creating a non linear narrative displaced in space.
Rosa is a film about my grandmother that lives in Treviso, Italy. I lived with her for five weeks and filmed continuously during this time. The filming had no direct purpose at the time but rather functioned as a social catalyst for the both of us. We came to know each other and I had the opportunity to learn a lot about her life. The material later used for the piece is documentary in style, where Rosas life is portrayed in detail, but the piece has no ambitions to follow any documentary film paradigms.
The viewer can see her eat, hang the laundry, walk to the store to shop food or read a book. The lowest projection is a long sequence where you can see me and here playing hide and seek in the garden. She is hiding from me and the camera which points out the obvious subjectivity of the material. The middle projection is made up of short sequences showing Rosa on her way to the supermarket, in the supermarket shopping and then on her way home. The third and highest projection depicts quiet sequences from her home environment, when she reads, combs her hair or talks on the phone.
I use the three projections to tell a story in a compressed timeframe. The images where looped which gave the public more time with the piece to create their own narrative and understanding of the portrait of Rosa.
The installation was shown in the form of a 9 min video ain the show Familjeporträtt at Västernorrlands Läns Museum 2007.
Link to a streaming of the film can be found below.
ROSA 9 min video
