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Inger Lise Hansen

Travelling Fields

Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 8:40 | Norvège | 2009

Travelling Fields focuses on a particular phenomenon occurring through a change of perspective and animated camera movements, as a way of redefining a place and its geography. Sections of the landscape are documented by moving the camera upside/down, one frame at the time, along a track. The film moves between different topographies and locations in the Kola Peninsula, Northern Russia. Shot in Northern Russia, Travelling Fields is the third film in Inger Lise Hansen's inverted perspective trilogy, following Proximity (2006) and Parallax (2009). The films focus on a particular phenomenon occurring through a change of perspective and animated camera movements, as a way of redefining a place and its geography. In these films sections of the landscape are documented by moving the camera one frame at the time, along a track. As each of the earlier films focus on one particular location, Travelling Fields offers a more complex viewing as it moves between different topographies and locations in the Kola Peninsula.

Inger Lise Hansen (b. 1963) was educated at North East London Polytechnic, St. Martin's College of Art, London and holds a Master of Fine Art in Filmmaking from San Francisco Art Institute. She has made a number of experimental animation films with support from Arts Council England, Film London and the Norwegian Film Institute, and has won several international awards such as Gold Prize for animation at the Bilbao Festival of Documentary and Short Films and the Chris Frayne Award for Best Animation at Ann Arbor International Film Festival. Her earlier films have been screened at Tate Modern, London, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm and Hiroshima Animation Festival.