Movement
Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen’s ‘Movement’ is a newly commissioned film developed particularly for this exhibition. The film moves between the deeply textured forms of poetic ethnography, personal histories and essayistic portraits subtly weaving the life stories and aspirations of four youths across their geographical locations in London and New Delhi, bonded by their love for hip-hop. What also makes Larsen’s work especially significant in the context of the ‘voice’ is the possibility of opening out the notion of the ‘artist-chronicler’ via the traditional ‘documentary subject’. In disrupting any easy flows of power between the artist and his material, the work is able to create an alternate order of poetry within the non-fiction film form.