IRIS
This film was made for the opening of Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm. The video was shown during two nights in August -06 as part of a program for a big dinner party in the exhibition hall organised by the founder Jeanette Bonnier.
The theme for the party was the four elements; I was invited to make a work on the element FIRE. I wanted someone who did completely different sounds than me to compose the music for the peace, the video was built by sound composer Lars Åkerlund and me, both the images and the sound was made simultaneously.
Petra Lindholms video Iris in collaboration with the sound composer Lars Åkerlund; a smooth natural flow of sound and images, at the same time a demanding assertive narrative. A vertiginous ride, a poetic purification in a science fiction like atmosphere. The video is about death and rebirth and how these two are unseperable. Just as linked as ease and seriousness, impermanence and eternity.
Martin Ålund, producer and artist
Petra Lindholms videoverk Iris i samarbete med tonsättaren Lars Åkerlund; ett vackert självklart flöde av bilder och ljud och samtidigt en krävande, påträngande berättelse, en slags hisnande resa, en poetisk sciencefiction-katharsis om död och återfödelse och hur dessa ytterligheter är oskiljbara från varandra. Precis lika oskiljbara som lättheten och allvaret, tillfälligheten och evigheten.