Breath is the common thread in Eva Bakkesletts video work Breath. The work revolves around breathing as a foundation for all living beings, one pervasive force that binds all organisms together into one, worldwide ecosystem. Breath explored in a broader sense, as a poetic journey through considerations of philosophers, activists and researchers, and through associations and historical connotations. In several ancient cultures were breathing for example synonymous with soul - in Greek, Sanskrit and Chinese the words for breath translates to the Norwegian Spirit. Bakkeslett interpreters breath visually in an associative and poetic imagery, where the sequence of images does not follow any linear narrative logic. Dense cotton clouds pouring off a factory pipe, steam escaping from holes in the ground in a volcanic landscape, a crackling fire transforms the burning twigs to smoke and ash. Breath is the driving force of all life. Each creature transforms the air and put some of its distinctiveness in the mixture before it sails. The film was supprted by Nordnorsk Filmsenter, Fond for Lyd og Bilde og Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond.

Eva Bakkeslett will introduce her film at 1 p.m.

This film was a part of the stage version of ‘Whispers - by the Pearly Gates’ by Solveig Leinan-Hermo. The film originated from the choreographer’s meeting with Alzheimer's, where she has marvelled on the complexity of the brain with different character changes happening and where situations shifts like a light switch between real reality and an inner reality of time and place. The "I" has a split personality, which consists of several characters. They communicate with each other in a landscape seemingly real for each of them. Not everything is as they believe, or the way they want the world to be. The production was supported by Arts Council Norway.

‘Anew’ was filmed in New Zealand during the Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival i 2014 during the production of the performance by the same name by Marie Hermo Jensen. We find ourselves during a time of waiting, a development, total madness and sexuality, in meeting the many roles of women. The film is a collaboration between Stellaris DansTeater and Waikato Contemporary Dance Projects Trust. The production was supported by Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival, Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts, Creative Waikato - Hamilton City Creative Communities, WEL Energy Trust, Stellaris DansTeater, stellaris dance nz, The Lion Foundation, Nimbus media.