Josefin Arnell: Participatory filmmaking

A guest lecture at the Department of TransArts

Josefin Arnell is an artist and filmmaker. She uses humor, horror, and the monstrous as tools to examine how power structures affect the individual. Her work addresses the aesthetics and politics of violence, class, and group dynamics. Through complex realities and absurd fictionalizations, her loose narratives revolve around characters who attempt to navigate contemporary infrastructures with impossible demands.

In the lecture she will show and talk about the process of one of her recent films Buurthuis 2 (17min, 2023) that was made in her local community house and involved neighbors in both script and acting.

About the artist: Josefin Arnell was born in Sweden (1984) and is based in Amsterdam. In 2015 and 2016, she participated in the residency program at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. In 2018, she won the Theodora Niemeijer Prize for emerging female artists in the Netherlands. In 2023, she was nominated for the Prix de Rome Netherlands, with a presentation at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. At the moment she is doing a four month residency at PART International art residency Vienna. 
Places where her work has been shown include Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; WIELS, Brussels; Cell Project Space, London; Index, Stockholm; UKS, Oslo; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem; Athens Biennale; Auto Italia, London; Kunsthalle Münster; Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Berlin; Riga International Film Festival; and IDFA International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam.