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Kaja Leijon

Screening

| | couleur | 9:0 | Norvège | 2011

SCREENING (HD, 9 min, 2011, single screen) SCREENING is based on the association of screen-tests and auditioning, that is often attached as extra material on dvds. Five female characters of age 16-30, are filmed in a white studio. They are wearing ordinary clothes and at first sight it might look like they are filmed just as ?themselves? in front of the camera. After a while it becomes more obvious that they go in and out of, and are trying out different roles. The characters do not know that the camera is recording the whole time during the shooting, even when they are stopped in the middle of an act; this to create an interaction of acting, trying to act, or just being themselves. Feminine expressions are contrasted with masculine to generate friction and to enhance the collision of the characters? attempts to go into a role, failing and managing the role.

Kaja Leijon is born in Tromsø, 1980, and now lives and works in Oslo, Norway. She is educated at the National Academy of Fine Arts. During her education she participated in several exchange programs, among those at CalArts, US. Leijon works with film and photography. Leijon recently had a solo exhibition at Trøndelag senter for samtidskunst. Her films have been screened at international exhibitions and film festivals such as; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Kunsthalle in Mainz, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Videonale and Kasseler Dokumentar und videofest,