Just a Stone

Berre ein stein, 2024 video 15 min How does one deal with an overhanging risk of everything falling apart? 'Berre ein stein' is a documentary film with a handful of anecdotes from places prone to rockslides. I always feared a rock suddenly falling down from above, growing up in a town surrounded by steep mountains. While making 'Berre ein stein' I traveled around western-Norway, gathering footage and anecdotes from people living in areas prone to rockslides. Someone I met said "the stones tell our stories", a statement that precisely describes how the surrounding landscapes can shape the outcomes of life. Sometimes even a whole society for several generations, like the town where they prayed for hundreds and hundreds of years for a wobbly stone not to roll down the mountain.

Exhibition at Galleri Christinegaard in Bergen 2024.

Still image from film

Exhibition in Kunstnernes Hus FKDS studios 2023.

The footage was filmed on trips between Fortun in Sogn and Odda in Hardanger in the western parts of Norway.

The poem Storskreda (read by Stine Hauge Eikeset) was written by Anders Hovden, from the book Dikt i utval, published in 1937.

Thank you for sharing your stories

Jan Gravdal
Ingrid Louise Birkeland Skorpen
anonymous stone collector
Marit Gravdal

Original music

Jo Mikkel Sjaastad Huse

Translation

Jo Mikkel Sjaastad Huse
Ole-Petter Arneberg

Thank you

Ola Olsen Lysgaard
Kristin Linde Hauglund
Ana Marques Engh
Anna-Victoria Simensen Borgersrud
Torleif Bay
Ingrid Haugen Nonskar
Stine Hauge Eikeset
Borgar Grande
Junie Lindblom
Julia Hovda
Nicole Ward

Supported by

Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond

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