Globabel

As part of FILMFORM RE:VIEW - an incomplete film program: Globabel

The title is taken from Åke Karlung’s notorious and unfinished Glo-Babels torn, exhibited at Moderna Museet’s Lilla Filmsalen between 1977-1979, which was simultaneously used as the artist’s studio and workshop. Two years later the work travelled to Paris and Centre Pompidou for the exhibition SEXTANT, presented by the director Pontus Hultén. Glo-babels torn functions as a portal to the film program; where Karlung’s Gesamtkunstwerk of ”image, sound, movement and words” becomes a rhythmic reflection of the selected films. Glo-babel's attack on the emerging pop culture, cultural establishment and consumer society acts as a leitmotif for the program’s five films. Like in the Bible, Karlung’s tower was never completed, instead the Tower of Babel became a symbol of humanity’s desperate search for belonging and community in a world of babel of tongues, arbitrariness and alienation. Globabel is an incomplete film program of an archive of recycled moving images which, as Åke Karlungs work, never will be final.

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