Documentary - Intimacy - Migration

Marianne Hougen-Moraga,  Friday 11th October

My research takes its point of departure in my own film-project, which focuses on migration and long distance relationships (including all kinds of relationships from couples to parent-child relationships) and how the feeling of longing for someone and eventually somewhere creates another kind of long-distance intimacy than when being together.

By looking on my own moving image practice, I explore how I can achieve an audiovisual intimate aesthetic through different kinds of approaches as e.g. a confessional approach, close-ups and recorded conversations done on video calls by the characters themselves.

I am recording with four characters and aim at recording with at least five more. The recordings are planned to end up as a one hour non-fiction film.