Films by Cooper & Gorfer

 

The Eternal Play

TEASER :21 sec
Full length piece shown in exhibition only

Video Installation / 2020 / 9:10 min played in loop

Art Work / Video Installation for the exhibition Between These Folded Walls, Utopia. The film shows the constant dance-like struggle of Shadi Golchin and a group of four dancers from the Gothenburg Dance Company. The women act as Shadi’s avatars, mirroring her psyche. Even though the piece is based on interviews with Shadi, it’s essence is universal; the movements express the inner struggle we have all experienced within our own mind – a mind that can turn from caring friend, in loving synch with our own movements, to opponent, coaxing, dragging, pushing, fighting us.

Produced and directed by: Cooper & Gorfer / DoP: Camilla Topuntoli / VFX: Ulf Lundén / Music and Sound Design: Per-Henrik Mäenpää (incl. piano track Ceasefire by Peter Broderick) / based on original choreography by Dorotea Saykaly

 

Between These Folded Walls, Utopia

Documentary / 2020 /15:00 min

What do you hold close? Where is your secret place of belonging? If you had to leave everything behind and begin again – who would you be? Humanitarian tragedies keep unfolding, creating immense human suffering. But as the world around us is unravelling, have we stopped dreaming of another? Starring young women whose lives have been affected by forced migration, this film is about the loss of utopia and our ability to dream again.

Directed and produced by: Cooper & Gorfer / executive producer: Fotografiska / DoP and editing: Camilla Topuntoli / music and sound: Per-Henrik Mäenpää / colorist: Fateh Shams

Starring: Israa Abdali, Maryan Ali, Segal Mohamed, Parwana Rezaie, amongst others / Narrator: Dorotea Saykaly

• shortlisted Tempo Documentary Film Festival 2021

 

Interruptions

Documentary / 2016 /21:45 min

Interruptions, explores the contemporary context of broken timelines, identity and personal histories. From the cultural and political interventions that have violated and shaped the indigenous Sámi culture, to the very personal ruptures of women, whose lives have been interrupted in one way or another. The project seeks to interrelate personal tremors with the political and cultural interruptions that still impact the Sámi identity today.

Directed and produced by: Cooper & Gorfer / co-produced by: Konstmuseet I Norr / DoP and editing: Conny Fridh

 

I Know Not These My Hands

Documentary / 2017 / 14:00 min

Exhibition film about the artists Sarah Cooper and Nina Gorfer. We are invited to glance behind the scenes of their artistic process and inspiration leading up to their series I Know Not These My Hands.

Directed and produced by: Cooper & Gorfer / co-produced by: Fotografiska / DoP: Conny Fridh and Cooper & Gorfer / editing: Conny Fridh

 

The Weather Diaries

Documentary / 2014 /20:40 min

This film takes you deep into the ingenuity of three island nations where common is the hug of isolation. The Weather Diaries is a prolific collaboration between Cooper & Gorfer and some of the most gifted designers from Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands. Instead of seasonal trends, it explores the inspiration of creative minds, probes links to cultural identity, and scrutinizes the impact of the inescapable physicality of nature and weather. In this film, we meet the artists and designers.

Directed and produced by: Cooper & Gorfer / co-produced by: Nordic House Iceland / DoP: Conny Fridh and Cooper & Gorfer / editing: Conny Fridh / sound: Henrik Lövgren