2015, 47 min, Norway
23-year-old Damla is an art student who begs daily on the streets next to Bianca, a Roma woman with whom she gradually develops a friendship. ‘If she has to sit like that, then we must actually all do it. And, in art, you can change on the small scale what you really want to change on the large scale’, says Damla when explaining the project to her class at the art academy. Damla’s work starts as a performative art project, which is discussed in-depth by her classmates and teacher. Gradually, her situation develops into an ethical and political crisis as she struggles to justify how she can continue her project in the face of the social inequality beyond the art academy. Time Passes is a fictional story shot in a documentary style.
Director, producer, screenplay: Ane Hjort Guttu
Cinematography: Cecilie Semec
Editing: Jon Endre Mørk
Music: Knut Olaf Sunde
Sound: Øyvind Rydland
Actors: Damla Kilickiran, Halvor Haugen, Bianca Linu, Johan Carlsson
Executive producer: Elisabeth Kleppe
Co-producer: Bergen Kunsthall
Commissioners: Bergen Kunsthall with Lorck Schive Art Prize, South London Gallery
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