Freedom Requires Free People
Documentary, 32 min, 2011
The film follows an 8 year old boy at a primary school in Oslo, Norway. Through interviews and filming school hours it looks at the conflict between his strong desire for freedom and participation and the framework put forward by the school. Freedom Requires Free People questions the conditions of critical thinking within educational institutions and, in a broader sense, within society. The film was the central piece of the extensive exhibition Learning for Life at Henie Onstad art centre, Norway, and has been shown at exhibitions and festivals worldwide.
Artist's Bio:
Artist and curator based in Oslo. During the last years she has been working with issues of power and freedom in the Scandinavian post-welfare state through videos, picture collections, sculpture and photography. Hjort Guttu also writes analytical as well as poetical texts and has created several works dealing with historical art. Latest projects and exhibitions include: Society without Qualities, Tensta konsthall, Stockholm (2013); Learning for Life, Henie Onstad kunstsenter (2012-2013); The Rich Should be Richer, Kunsthall Oslo (2012); West of the East, Y Gallery, Minsk (2012). Forthcoming projects: Bergen Assembly, Bergen, 2013, In These Great Times, Kunstnernes hus, Oslo and a new short film for Tensta konsthall, Sweden.