Private Project

The Valley

In the old textile factory, a server park mining for bitcoin, has replaced the traditional industry. The film uses a small village on the West-Coast of Norway as a prism to look at global transitions related to production and economy. "The Valley" is an essay film that poetically tells the story of a place and its relations to global economy. The sounds and physical surfaces of the place are central elements to this story. 

  • Stine Gonsholt
    Director
  • Åse Løvgren
    Director
  • Åse Løvgren
    Writer
  • Stine Gonsholt
    Writer
  • Åse Løvgren
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short, Other
  • Runtime:
    20 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    March 31, 2019
  • Country of Origin:
    Norway
  • Country of Filming:
    Norway
  • Language:
    English, Norwegian
  • Shooting Format:
    HD
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • 36th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival
    Kassel
    Germany
    November 16, 2019
    europe
    Official Selection
  • The National Museum, Oslo
    Oslo
    Norway
    August 5, 2021
  • Kunsthall 3,14
    BERGEN
    Norway
    March 1, 2020
  • Greenlightdistrict Festival
    Skien
    Norway
    September 6, 2019
  • Nye fortsettelser
    Vaksdal
    Norway
    April 7, 2019
    Norway
  • Høstutstillinge, (133.)
    Oslo
    Norway
    September 19, 2020
Distribution Information
  • Stine Gonsholt
    Country: Norway
Director Biography - Stine Gonsholt, Åse Løvgren

Stine Gonsholt is visual artist and filmmaker. Her works have been aquired by amongst other: Norwegian Culture Council and University of Stavanger, Norway. Her first documentary film "Mission Mongolia" received the BKH prize 2003 and was shown on the public broadcaster in Norway, NRK. She has received several State working grant for artists and in 2014 Telemark County footprint award, for the project "Corridors", where she documented transitions caused by infrastructure constructions in Benin, Togo and Burkina Faso.

Ase Løvgren is a visual artist and works within a range of media. She was curator at Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall 2010-12, has participated at a number of international projects, and has received a State working grant in Norway. She was co-artistic research leader in the artistic research project The Vision Machine at Institute of Art at the University of Bergen 2014-2018.

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Director Statement

For several years, Gonsholt has realised projects that deals with questions related to development processes within an interdisciplinary, global context. Changes within local communities as a consequence of global transformation, is a main point of interest. As of 2017, she is collaborating with artist Åse Løvgren, in a landscape investigation (Landscape as idea and reference point - The Valley) of Dale; a rural setting on the west coast of Norway is used as a prism to look at global transitions related to production and economy, and how this alters our understanding of a place.

Stine Gonsholt was awarded the The Telemark Footprint Award in 2014. Her debut as a documentary filmmaker Mission Mongolia was awarded The Visual Artist Foundation award in 2003 and broadcasted on Norwegian National Television. Gonsholt's work is exhibited internationally and acquired by amongst other: Skien Municipality Art Collection (2021), The Norwegian Journalists Association (2009), University of Stavanger, Norway (2006) and The Arts Council Norway (2005). Stine Gonsholt (b.1973 in Skien, Norway) graduated from Bergen National Academy of Arts in Norway in 2003. She divides her time living and working in Skien and Berlin. 
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Åse Løvgren is an artist working in a wide range of formats where collaboration is often at the core. She was co-artistic research leader in the artistic research project Synsmaskinen based at the Faculty of Art, UiB (synsmaskinen.net). The research project proposed a multifaceted inquiry into contemporary crises. Together with Karolin Tampere she initiated the ongoing collaboration Rakett in 2003, which is a mobile platform for multivocal exchange through collaborative and investigative curatorial and artistic projects. She is project developer at VISP where she hosts Critics’ Conversations that aims to engage a public conversation and response to art exhibitions and projects. From 2017 she collaborates with artist Stine Gonsholt, in a landscape investigation of Dale on the West coast of Norway, where involvement in global capital and trade are analysed through history, until todays digital mining of Bitcoin in the old abandoned textile factory.

Recent and upcoming exhibitions/screenings of The Valley: 2022 at The national Museum in Oslo, Kabuso, Øystese, 2021 Entangled Landscape at Spriten Kunsthall in Skien 2020; Kunsthall 3,14 in Bergen,The Artists Exhibition(133.),The Artists' House in Oslo, The second Chapter, Kunsthall 3,14 in Bergen, 2019: 36.KASSEL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL, KulturBahnhof Kassel (DE).