HC Gilje: Movement Through Space

The Dream That Kicks is proud to highlight the work of prolific Oslo based artist HC Gilje. Giljes’ work has covered installation, experimental video, live performance, video mapping and set design. Gilje has toured extensively, showing at various film, art and media festival events throughout the world. Gilje explores the transformation that occurs when physical structures interact with the ephemeral media of light, projection, sound and motion. Live collaborators include Jazzkammer, Eva Cecilie Richardsen, Maja Ratkje and Justin Bennett.

Program

eye see (1995 / 8 sekunder / hi8+super8 til digital)

Manipulated, digital video loop (160x120pixels) created as a filmstrip in photoshop.

H.K.mark1 (1998 / 5 min / DV til digital)

A kaleidoscopic visual journey through the dense urban landscape of Hong Kong, in which the artist uses a variety of layering and image manipulation techniques to achieve a graphic visual quality with references to the tradition of oriental art.

Crossings (2002 / 4 min / digital)

Layer upon layer of lines containing images of people crossing build up over the course of the film’s four minutes to create a nice visual metaphor for the act of making one’s way across the street.

Night for Day (2004 / 26 min / digital)

Based on material shot and recorded in Tokyo, expressionistic impressions from an urban reality, 13 audiovisual poems assembled into a surreal whole. Collaboration with noise duo Jazzkammer.

Shiva (2003/ 8 min / digital)

Based several audiovisual performances with art duo BLIND (Gilje + Kelly Davis). Cyclical evolution, rephrasing, paraphrasing and constant re-modification of temporal-spatial structures. Sound by Kelly Davis

Barents (mare incognitum) (2015 / 4 min / digital)

A view of the Barents Sea slowly rotating: up becomes down, east becomes west. Filmed at the border between Norway and Russia, pointing towards the North Pole, using a custom built orbital camera that slowly rotates around its own axis, and captures the world that revolves around it.

Entangled (2018 / 2 min / digital)

Using the laser scanning technique LIDAR, Gilje creates a cast of himself in the forest – a frozen moment orbited by a virtual camera.

Rift (HD) (2017/2022 / 7 min / digital)

Rift consists of over 10000 microscope images of plastic wrappings from consumables. A film about petrochemicals, the process from plankton to oil to plastic to waste, and the relationship between depth and time through the layers of the Earth. Soundtrack by Justin Bennett.

The Intimacy Of Strangers (2022 / 10 min / digital)

Apart from the extreme variations in appearance, textures and color, lichens have become the poster organisms for a new biology of symbiosis. The film was created using a custom made computer-controlled mechanical stage and a digital microscope.