The Others
videoinstallation, 4 min, 2015
Videoverket är gjort på beställning av Polismuseet i Stockholm och är en reflektion över en konkret historisk händelse, nämligen en husockupation på Söder på 1990-talet. Jag fick läsa dokument om både kravallpolisens och ockupanternas agerande och studier om gängbeteende. Ju mer jag läste, desto mer likhet såg jag mellan de två skilda grupperna. I filmen visar jag hur två från början ganska lika gestalter bygger upp sina identiteter för att se diametralt motsatta ut, och hur de i finalen flyter ihop ändå.
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Manus och regi: Natasha Dahnberg Kamera: Mervi Junkkonen Redigering: Natasha Dahnberg, Mervi Junkkonen Ljud: Girilal Baars I rollerna : Gunilla Lundqvist och Klara Granlöf |
The music plays a big part in the movie. The music is Staten & Kapitalet by Ebba Grön mixed with Swedish Police March. In the beginning, both melodies try to dominate the other, but eventually they turn into a cacophony. Video installation The Others is a commission for The Stockholm Police Museum’s exhibition Regarding The Police.
My installation is based on documents from the squatting at Folkungagatan, Stockholm, in 1994. During this event the police used 200 task force members against ten activists who were squatting in an old house in Södermalm. In turn, the activists used bricks, among other things to hurt the police. Something they succeeded with. Both sides had prepared for battle, not for dialogue or peaceful negotiations. Both were unjustifiably violent. I have been given historical materials by The Police Museum, materials about police behaviour in extreme situations and materials about group behaviour amongst gang members. I could find many similarities between the police and the squatters.
The video won the first prize at the VIDEOGUD festival in 2014 and was shown at a number of exhibitions and festivals.