12.09.2025 - Kristin Bolstad & Owen Weaver

Kristin Bolstad - voice, Azzam Bell (multi-instrument), electronics and acoustic sound effects.

Owen Weaver - Vibrophone, glokenspiel, drums and acoustic sound effects

Kristin Bolstad is a Norwegian composer, vocalist, and improviser. Her music is often conceptual, characterized by improvisation, performative elements, and humor. She strives for a visual and simple form of expression, and enjoyes exploring layers of sound and harmonies. Kristin has composed for various ensembles and performers, and her music has been performed throughout Scandinavia, Europe, Canada, and the USA.

Percussionist Owen Weaver is an intensely focused performer who combines the forces of rhythm, noise, and silence in a quest to reveal the musical potential in everyday life. He uses recycled objects, homemade instruments, and electronic sounds to construct a kaleidoscopic sonic universe that blends original music with improvisation, often in collaboration with today's leading composers. In 2018, Owen earned his Doctor of Musical Arts in percussion from the Hartt School. He lives near Bergen, where he performs with the BIT20 Ensemble amongst many other projects.

The Sea Shell and the Clergyman:

The Seashell and the Clergyman (original title: La Coquille et le Clergyman) is a 1928 French experimental film directed by Germaine Dulac, based on an original screenplay by Antonin Artaud. It premiered in Paris on February 9, 1928. The film is associated with French Surrealism and follows the erotic hallucinations of a priest who desires the wife of a general.

The cast features Alex Allin as the priest, Genica Athanasiou as the general's wife, and Lucien Bataille as the general.

Although Germaine Dulac was frequently derided and overshadowed by the more famous men of the surrealist movement, The British Film Institute sites both The Smiling Madame Beudet (1922) and The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928) as important early examples of radical experimental feminist filmmaking, which "provide an antidote to the art made by the surrealist brotherhood".

The Strange High House in the Mist:

A phenomenon emerges—manipulating time and space, warping light and the shape of the world. A new landscape film by Anders Elsrud Hultgreen, the creator behind the films Septichexen and Hospital Dumpster Divers.

Filmmaker Anders Elsrud Hultgreen grew up by a river in the forests of Ringerike. He has studied film and art at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and the Nordland Vocational School of Art and Film.