PREMIERE
Major questions concerning how people search for the meaning of life is the theme when our Festival Profile Ingeborg Oktober presents her multimedia work "Et fucka år". Here we get to experience her own hand-drawn animated film accompanied by newly written songs and lyrics.
“A fucked up year” is a journey in grief processing after suicide, and the range of emotions one can experience in the form of anger, remorse and grief. With warm humor, mature seriousness and childlike imagination, you are drawn into a fictional universe with imaginative animation inspired by both Studio Ghibli and Tove Jansson's Moomin valley.
The performance researches how one can try to prevent suicide, and what role creativity can have in that process. Elements such as scientific history and fantastic inventions provide an insight into the innermost part of human nature.
Ingeborg's ex-boyfriend died by suicide in 2017 after several years without contact, and the work was written in the aftermath of this. The performance is an attempt to address the theme of suicide without romanticizing or neglecting it. The work was created in the hope that openness about the topic can have a suicide-preventing effect.
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The multi-artist Ingeborg Oktober is one of this year's two Festival profiles, and has created a multimedia work entitled "A fucked up year". The work is both an audiovisual performance and published book, and this will be her debut as an author via the Harstad-based publisher Utenfor Allfarvei Forlag.
